by Sarah Green | Nov 30, 2015 | News
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that personalized, one-on-one tutoring not only helps students develop their math skills, but for children with high anxiety about doing math, it can actually help them reduce that anxiety. The...
by Sarah Green | Oct 22, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Researchers from the University of Chicago have determined that adding math to story time before bed can greatly improve children’s math performance. Specifically, they studying the effects of an app called Bedtime Math, which uses story problems to help engage kids...
by Sarah Green | Aug 12, 2015 | News, Parent Issues
A recent study from the University of Chicago has found that parents’ anxiety about math could be negatively impacting their children’s ability to learn math, at least when their parents try to help them with their homework. Parents are often told to be involved in...
by Sarah Green | Feb 5, 2014 | Parent Issues, Profiles, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Just a few years ago, Salman Khan led a very different life. He was an MIT graduate working as a hedge fund manager. But today, he’s known as the brilliant founder of Khan Academy, an electronic math tutoring program that has 10 million users and more than 5,000...
by Sarah Green | Jan 2, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There is no question that the United States has some serious budgeting problems—namely that we’ve far overspent and are finally realizing the consequences of acting like a teenager on a shopping spree with mom’s credit card. The problem with coming up with and...