Want to learn how your child can learn crucial skills to be successful in the 21st-century job market? Wondering how STEM can make your child a curious, analytical, and strategic risk taker in the classroom? In this article, you’ll discover how a STEM classroom will transform your child’s learning, and help them embrace the four identified crucial 21st Century Skills needed for … [Read more...]
How to Help Your Child Not Worry About Math and be Successful
People tend to have strong and often rather negative beliefs about math. These beliefs typically come from their experiences with math when they were in school- harmful teaching practices, being told there is only one right way to solve a problem and not being allowed to think outside the box, students getting anxiety from being timed while solving math problems, and damaging ideas about … [Read more...]
Why Understanding Math is Key to Your Child’s Success
Have you ever looked at your child’s math homework and wondered why it looks so different than what you learned in school? Have you wondered what this “new math” is all about? There is No New Math Well, the truth is there is no new math. We still teach many of the things that you and I learned, however, in the years since we graduated from elementary school we have learned a lot about the way … [Read more...]
Why Doing Math Together Heightens Your Child’s Understanding
The way adults learned math looks different than the way kids are learning math in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District. The way most adults learned math did not always make sense…older generations were taught procedural algorithms and had to memorize lists and lists of basic math facts. So now, working with your child, keep in mind they are most likely learning things … [Read more...]