Helping Your Child or Teen Learn
While you may hope that schools offer clear and effective
instruction, you should also test and verify. not all is certain, You also
need to encourage the will to learn, or the aims and goals of your charges.
Then your charges may keep trying in school and cooperate with teachers,
without disrupting or opposing the education of themselves and others. Good
luck.
Parents and teachers need to say no for small things of little consequence to build and maintain
authority to say no for larger matters.
The advice offered here for helping your child or teen learn is approximately
correct, for some circumstances not all. See what works.
Section webpages
- Speaking Skills suggests how to improve
the speaking and listening skills of your child.
- Reading & Writing offers ideas for
the development of these skills.
- Preparing for science -Teaching a boy or girl
to cook or to follow any multi-step method precisely, in a repeatable and
reproducible manner, will help in science and all area of work and study.
- Learning Takes Time and Effort: Four
Things for a Student to Know. Quote in full of an article from Speaking
of Learning that refers back to words at this site, no longer online.
- Math Work Books for your child or young
teen identifies mathematics material for your charge to use with your
supervision.
- Math Books and Websites for
Teens & Adults - besides this one.
- Readings for Parents -
results from a trip to a local bookstore.
- Patience Please. reflects the inductive
idea that learning takes time. If you see a difficulty, you need to identify
the source and retreat before it in order to practice skills that restore
confidence and then to practice skills that remove the source of the
difficulty. Teaching, tutoring or parenting takes time and patience. Good
luck. Nothing is certain.
- Who is in Charge? For better or worse,
you the parent or guardian may be the first and longest term instructor of
your child. Do your best
Parents and teachers need to say no for small things of
little consequence to build and maintain authority to say no for larger
matters. Parental authority: use it or lose it.
- Student Motivation Here a discussion
of the challenge. Not the solution.
Students with parents who say mathematics mastery is
important, or education in general is important, will often have more
goals, more will and more staying power in school and college - no
guarantees here -but is part of the solution.
- Talk to Your Child or Teen.
For many, those without learning difficulties, the will to learn is
often more important than ability. Encourage the will. That is part of
the solution.
- Primary and High School Mathematics
describes or lists the skills and ideas met primary school to the first year
of high school, and points to a context
for high school mathematics.
Ages 5 or 6
Ages 6 or 7 Ages
8 or 9 Ages 10 to 13 Ages
14 plus.
Knowledge of them will allow you to judge the skills of your charge and
the math and logic work books or reading for your charges. You will see
where they are going.
Note: Site How-TOs for
preparing teens and adults were posted online in August 2008. They complete
or replace the foregoing advice for Ages 14 plus. I will to
rewrite this site area to consolidate ideas.
If you are parent with a knowledge of calculus, check whether
or not preparation for calculus is part of the agenda in high school
mathematics. If not, if the teachers of your son or daughter have
mastered calculus, you will need to investigate paralleled instruction that
follows site Tutor-Teacher How-TOs
s as far as your son or daughter can go.
- Links for Kids and their Guides
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Help your Child
or Teen Learn
Area Intro
1. Speaking Skills
2. Reading & Writing
3. Preparing for Science
4. Learning Takes Time and Effort
5. Math Books: kids & teens
6. Math Books: teens & adults
7. Readings for Parents
8. Patience Please
9. Who is in Charge
10. Motivation
11. Will to Learn
12. Math K1-20
13. Links For Parents
14. JumpMath WorkBooks
15. Discipline in Schools
16. Problems in Education
Parents & Math Ed Stds
(Insist on quality, no one else but you will do
this)
Maths for Ages 5+
Parents & Math Ed Stds
D
What to do in School & Why
E.How to Study Mathematics
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