7 Tips for Helping Your Child with Math at Home
If you feel lost when your child asks for help learning mathematics, you can take comfort in knowing you’re not alone. Teachers, parents, and PhD students—even biologists, chemists, and physicists—sometimes feel daunted by math. Add to that the fact that math education isn’t as static as we might like it to be. As we better understand learning and the human brain, the ways in which we teach math inevitably evolve. For many, the sorts of problems and strategies that comprise the “new math” can seem impenetrable.
What Parents Can Do: Reading Tips From Kids
Parents can make reading more motivating by letting children choose books and making reading a memorable family event. Find out what children themselves have to say about these guidelines for parents to increase motivation.
9 Special Education Strategies That Work for All Kids
Whether your child struggles with outbursts, focus, or fidgeting, educators say these research-backed classroom techniques can make a real difference, right in your own home.
8 Science-Backed Reasons to Read a (Real) Book
Bookworms can see some serious perks to their health and happiness. Want to really reap the benefits of reading? Reach for an old-fashioned, printed book.
New Math: An Explainer for Millennial Parents
If your child’s math homework has you scratching your head or groaning, you’re not alone. Here’s the scoop on the new approach to teaching math.
7 Strategies to Increase Reading Comprehension
Teaching a child to sound out and decode letters is the first step in reading education. But just because a child can read words doesn’t mean they understand them.
6 Fun Math Games to Try at Home
While many families incorporate reading into their everyday lives quite naturally, math can sometimes be neglected. Familiarizing your child with math while they’re still young can help to spark their curiosity about solving problems, making numbers feel more approachable over time.
Benefits of private schools
To teach their children the necessary skills for an ever-changing world, many parents are choosing private school education. With options ranging from boarding schools to alternative schools to preschools, there is almost certainly a school to suit each and every child. Here are the reasons why parents are choosing to give their children the unique experience of private school and why it’s worth the financial investment.
10+ Tips for Reading with Special Needs Kids
I’m passionate about reading with my kids, so I love the theme for this week’s #PlayfulPreschool! Books! From activities using them to tips for reading them, we’ve got some great ideas for teaching a love of books with your preschoolers! Reading with your kids is the best thing that you could ever do for them and I am committed to instilling a love for reading into all of my kids. I will be absolutely honest though, reading with my special needs preschooler takes a lot more forethought than reading with my other kids. So to help me, and hopefully you, I’ve compiled a list of tips for reading with special needs kids.
Help Your Child With Math – a 3 Step Plan for Parents
I’m often asked by parents if there is anything they could (or should) be doing in the home environment to better support their child’s maths learning. The trigger may be a disappointing school report, the start of a new school term or simply an inherent belief that their child could be doing better than they are currently doing.
