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As students prepare for Back-to-school, one thing that will improve their mental math skills is flash cards. Find more information here.

09/27/23

I’m reading the statistics about how Americans have poor math skills. Yes, there are a lot of students and post college adults who have poor math skills. Experience has shown me how poor math skills are, always, based on an unstable foundation. If a student in the fourth or fifth grade has an unstable arithmetic foundation (For example they are still counting on their fingers to add and subtract). There is no way they can attempt the next level math of multiplication and division or anything pre-algebra.

 I have been tutoring students for 4 years; my students have ranged in education levels from the fourth grade through adults in college and my student encounters tell me that once you rebuild an unstable foundation, the brain no longer has to wait for you to do the calculations. The brain does the calculations and moves on. Students have time to listen to the concept and the explanation behind the concept because their brain is making the calculations – instead of lagging in wait “mode” and missing the lecture that connects and assimilates the concept into the calculations – and moving on much faster than they can move on without the brain’s help . This is the foundation of Mental Math and why it is, such an important building block in the foundation of understanding math concepts.

Mental Math Practice

I’ve had many students requesting help with Geometry . I’m putting together a series of pages witth

math Tips and tricks to help you understand how and why angles work together in Geometry and later Trigonometry. Hang with me for the journey!