Creative Ways To Improve Your Elementry Math Skills When it comes to math, almost everyone has problems at some point! When you are trying to help yourself, or someone else, some pointers are always nice. Here a creative ways to help you improve your Elementry math skills. Remember when it comes to kids, help them first conquer the basic math skills. Have them practice on paper as well as flash cards. Writing it down helps the brain as well as verbally saying the answers. If they are having a hard time with the cards, put the one down and go back to it later. This will help with the frustration that may come with it! Games are always a great way to help your kids learn math! Games such as Uno, Crazy Eights, Memory and Concentration are games that require memory and the use of numbers, sets, and mathematical concepts. To get the most benefit from this, make sure you point out the memory strategies that lead to the success of the game. You can also try and find online games for Math. These work great to build that “fun” behind the learning. Most of the time, kid’s don’t even realize that they are learning! Another fun way to help with math is playing with a pretend cash register. Have them “buy” things and have you buy things. Have them figure out how much things are and how much is owed at the end! This is a great way to continue using math as well as learning money. You can even have them help you with the “price tags”. Using real money is a great way to learn too! Take out a few dollars and some loose change and give your child a number. Have them figure out how many ways they can come up with that number using the money. There should always be more than 1 way! They can use the loose change as well as the dollars! You can also have them subtract and multiply using the money too! You can also “go for a walk” and look for different shapes in the trees and leaves. You can look at signs. Try to name as shapes as you can and figure out if they are symmetric! Great way to spend time together while learning! You can also learn math when you are cooking or baking. Have your child help you with the measuring cup’s. Have them help you by using a smaller size and figuring out what fraction is needed to make the whole! You could also bake a pie or a cake and as each slice or piece is eaten, have them figure out what fraction is left! Always remember to try to make learning fun! Try using these suggestions or try to make some new ones up on your own! Once your child starts catching on and having fun, you should see a rise in their grades!!
7 Days To Better Test Studying I find when it comes to studying, it’s always best to study a little bit through out the week. There are many different ways to accomplish this. Here is guide to help you study better for testing that allows you to retain more information and increase you grades in 7 days. Study Guide- Create a study guide, unless your teacher has provided one, then use that! Put all your notes into a study guide. This is a great way to look over everything and take it out when you have a few minutes. It is also a great thing to go over right before the exam. Make sure you use the study guide your teacher may have provided. Flash cards-Flash cards are a great way to study. As you create your flash cards, writing of the information allows your brain to begin to store the information that you write. Research has shown that you retain more information through writing and repetition, so carry your flash cards on you to help you find time to review them through out your day. The more you review the flashcards, the more you remember. Quiz Yourself-Find a friend or a family member to quiz you on from your notes throughout the week. Have a friend, family, or fellow student go over them with you. Put them in a sentence, make a rhyme out of terms that are hard to remember, or associate them with something that you are familiar with. This is a great way to keep your mind in check! You will see a huge improvement on your skills. Read the Chapter Summaries-This is a great and effective way to look over all the key ideas of each of the chapters. This should jog your memory with even the little things you may have forgotten about. These are also great to use for the study guide mentioned above! Find a Study Buddy or Group-Find a few people in the class that you can study with. Try to keep these study groups smaller, as too many people can cause distractions. This is a great way for everyone to be able to learn from each other as well as a great way to quiz each other on the knowledge you’ve retained! Draw Diagrams-Drawing diagrams will help you to visualize information which could be hard to describe. This creates a visual memory in your mind which can be recalled in an exam. It also is a great tool to have to go back and look on the closer you get to test day. Through using these techniques to study for your test, you will retain the important information better to lead to better test results. Always remember that no matter what you do for test studying, getting sleep is important. Never stay up all night! Lacking your brain of sleep is one of the worst things you can do before an exam. Your mind and body need to be well rested and clear of stress. The BEST thing you can do is get a full night of sleep. There are so many tricks and techniques to helping ourselves do better in school but without rest, we are nothing. Get a good nights sleep, eat a balanced breakfast, and allow all your studying to pay off! Good luck!
In our world of technology, we have so many resources at our fingertips. The library is used for peace and quiet more than anything because of the easy-to-access resources from any of our phones, computers, or tablets. With all this technology, there comes the problem of finding the right information for our need because of the large amount of resources. If you are struggling with your college classes and trying to find those “great resources” to bookmark and have to help you through your classes, check out these 5 websites. Quizlet Quizlet is a website offering free study tools. You provide the curriculum through registration, then begin studying just about anything. Easily download Quizlet on your Android or iOS phone or tablet to allow you to study virtually anywhere! This wonderful resource is used by both students and teachers, and available no matter the age or grade. Learn more about Quizlet on their website. Essay Punch Essay Punch is a website helping you write that perfect essay. It is very easy to use and walks you through the whole process. You can do the free version, which will provide you with one prompt, or for $39.00 a year, you are able to receive 9 prompts, as well as have the ability to save and resume your work and copy and paste it to an email, word processor, ect. If you are looking at improving your writing skills, Essay Punch something you should try and learn more on their website. The Owl (Purdue) Writing Lab Owl Purdue is a website offering many different free resources that are great to refer to when writing research papers, no matter the class or college level. Owl Purdue helps with writing, research, grammar, and even ESL! This website is a resource that you definitely want to bookmark and use, as it helps you write the perfect paper in the format you need through helping understand the important areas your teacher requires. Learn more Owl Purdue on their website. Open Study Open Study is a website for those out looking for others to study with! A free resource offering online study groups with people from all over the world! Offering help with Chemistry, Mathematics, English and more! 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! Keep this website close in case you find yourself needing help, or just want to study with someone without having to leave your home! Learn more at Open Study’s website. StudyBlue Study Blue is a website offering ways to study through flash cards, review sheets, quizzes and more. A completely free site that you can study virtually anything and anywhere. Easy to use for all students and a great tool to help you in the areas you are struggling with classes. Learn more about Study Blue on their website. These are just 5 wonderful websites out of the thousands of resources available online to the average college student. When in doubt, always use Google Search to find what you need as help is always just a few clicks away!
Being a parent has always been a tough job as we always seem to running from one place to the next. Getting time to help our children do their homework and study seems to be even harder. I began to look for different websites and apps that could help my children study and practice while in the car or while at a sibling’s event or practice that would be fun, but also practice in the area(s) they need the most. Multiplication Table for Kid’s Math: This app is a fun one! They learn the multiplication table from 1-12. There are 4 times tables modes: Story, Lesson, Kid Challenge, and Duel. They can play the Math Duel with a friend! There are easy and hard puzzles, simple and complex math equations, (even with addition and subtraction). The story mode gives you 3 lives per multiplication table and they need to try and get through as many as they can without losing their lives. Check Out Multiplication Table for Kid’s Math on Google Play Store! Reading Eggs: Reading and sight words can be a hard thing for young readers. Reading Eggs sight words is a great app for both the phone and the tablet. This free app helps children learn 100 site words, such as he, she the, ect. It’s has 4 levels with 25 words in each level! This is a fun game to start at age 3 for the early learning, but has all the 100 words they need for kindergarten! And at the end of each lesson, the word is spelled! This will help them learn and have fun in no time! Check out Reading Eggs on Google Play Store! English Reading Comprehension Another hard thing for kids is comprehending what they read! Many kids can read, but can’t always remember what it was that they were reading. English Reading Comprehension is a free app for them! This app allows your child to read and take a test based off of what they read. It also has questions based off of words and phrase, spelling and grammar. They are categorized by 5 grades. There is also a mock test. After you have practiced all types of questions, you can take the mock test. It randomly selects questions from each of the topics/ There is also no limit on how many times you can take the mock tests. This is a great app to helping that student of yours reach that goal! Check out English Reading Comprehension on Google Play Store! Check these apps out and see how much you like them and how much your child is learning!
Tutoring is an easy and effective way to educate students. Much more is possible teaching a student one-on-one than in a classroom full of many students. Tutors can work with students on an individual level, on the skills the student needs to learn. Being an effective tutoring is more than knowing the areas you are teaching in, it is about meeting clients needs and helping them understand why you are important to have. Here is a great list to help your clients learn about you and help you be effective when it comes to clients and hiring you as a tutor: Call the new client and leave a professional sounding message if they do not answer. For example, “Hello my name is _________ and I am calling to schedule your first tutoring session. Please call me back at ____-____-_____. Then send a text message saying the same thing. If they don’t respond, call and text them again the next day. Email them too if you have their email address. If they still don’t respond, call them one more time the third day. It is important to call and text the client as soon as possible. The longer you wait to contact them, the more likely it is they will find a different tutor. During the first session, tell the client about your tutoring experience and educational background. Ask the client what skills the student needs to work on. Tell them a basic plan of how you will work with the student on those skills. Also, let the client know when you are available to schedule regular tutoring sessions. Most tutoring sessions last one hour and most students meet with tutors once or twice a week. Tell the client it is up to them how many hours they want to meet. Older students can work for longer than one hour. By Lara Shaffer (Tutor with Elite Home Tutoring)
