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Do you wish your kid could feel like Albert Einstein?

My student who loves to sing and dance about math boldly announced to me during our tutoring session, “I feel like Albert Einstein!” Ok, so let’s back up for a second. How did this happen? When she...

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Are you tired of watching your kid give up on math?

What do you do when you see a problem full of weird things you’ve never seen before? Or a super-long problem? Or just a problem that combines things you’ve learned in a way you’ve never encountered?...

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Will guessing move you forward, or throw your hard work out the window?

Have you ever been working with your kid on a math problem and they just throw a number at you out of nowhere? When this happens to me, I usually ask diplomatically, “Is that a guess?” or make the...

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When you’re just not sure if it’s right

Yesterday I was working with a student on some very sophisticated geometry problems that require a lot of synthesis and creativity. She had come to me with the questions she hadn’t been able to figure...

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When you’re just not sure if it’s right

Yesterday I was working with a student on some very sophisticated geometry problems that require a lot of synthesis and creativity. She had come to me with the questions she hadn’t been able to figure...

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Will guessing move you forward, or throw your hard work out the window?

Have you ever been working with your kid on a math problem and they just throw a number at you out of nowhere? When this happens to me, I usually ask diplomatically, “Is that a guess?” or make the...

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Do you wish your kid could feel like Albert Einstein?

My student who loves to sing and dance about math boldly announced to me during our tutoring session, “I feel like Albert Einstein!” Ok, so let’s back up for a second. How did this happen? When she...

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Are you tired of watching your kid give up on math? Or, the secret of the...

What do you do when you see a problem full of weird things you’ve never seen before? Or a super-long problem? Or just a problem that combines things you’ve learned in a way you’ve never encountered?...

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