Help your child/teen learn
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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
More Links:
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What to do in School & Why
E.How to Study Mathematics
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Helping Your Child or Teen Learn
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.
Coming Soon: A step-by-step guide to mathematics education from
pre-school to college level, that is, from first steps in counting to
calculus.
Folder Content
- 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
In fall 1983, I gave three lessons to extend or complete
the skills of students starting calculus - recent high school graduates.
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The first lesson three
skills for algebra gave a remedy for olde gaps in the high
school introduction of mathematics Exercise for
students: Find the fourth skill for algebra.
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The second lesson two
logic puzzles fostered precision reading and writings skills, and
hinted at the role of logic in maths. Exercise for math and
English teachers: Present this puzzle in senior high school
classes.
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The third lesson why
slopes - a geometric calculus appetizer gave a starter lesson for
calculus. It explains why slopes may be met in high school maths, and
non-algebraically informs students where calculus will head after a
coming review of high school maths and a discussion of limits and
continuity.
Chapters 2 to 14 in the 1996 site Volumes 2, Three
Skills for Algebra, and chapters 2 to 6 plus 14 in the 1996 Volume 3, Why
Slopes and More Maths, present these three lessons and add to
them. In doing so, they provide words and
stories to introduce logic and provide a clearer oral and geometric paths for
introduction of algebra in calculus and earlier high school maths. The
newer site area on Solving
Linear Equations may offers a geometric introduction for algebra at the
the junior high school level.
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