There are hundreds of students who have been struggling to read faster. This perhaps is one of the most important causes for students not doing well in ‘reading comprehension’. However, parents have a reason to cheer up as with a little, consistent practice children can improve their reading speed.
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Long division problems are a nightmare for everyone- children (who have to solve them), teachers (who have to demonstrate solutions to such problems), and finally parents (who have to help their children with homework).
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How about a fun puzzle whose inventor believes in ‘the art of teaching without teaching’? Derived from the Japanese word that means ‘cleverness’, KenKen or KenDoku is a logical puzzle invented by a Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto in the year ’04.
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A few days back I had a friend and her husband drop in at my house. They wanted to have a discussion on the changes taking place in the current education system, schools in particular. They believed that the current schooling system was more productive than the one that existed in their time.
I could not deny the fact that most of us use our schooling system as a benchmark for measuring our kids’ schooling. However, there is no scientific proof that this formula would work. This led to (more…)
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) examined the scores and rankings of 12 nations in the 2003 International Mathematics Assessments for Grades 4 and 8. The results were certainly not in the favor of the United States.
Put the blame on the current education system or the impractical aspects of the No Child Left Behind Act, it is the kids who are suffering the most. Let us quickly go through some of the factors that have led to the worsening of the education system in the United States. (more…)
In the article titled “U.S. Teens Trail Peers Around World on Math-Science Test”, Washington Post elaborates the state of US students. CNN echoes the same in its article named “U.S. students behind in math, science, analysis says”.
These are just some of the articles that explain the growing concern among parents and educators in the United States. Isn’t it ironical that a country that is the most developed in the world fails to keep up with its counterparts as far as the school educational system is concerned?
A country’s future depends on the development of its children. Someone has rightly said (more…)
How often do you find time to sit with your child and offer him basic math or English help? Thanks to our fast paced lives, finding time for our loved ones, especially children, has become a dream.
Working parents find themselves struggling to find time for their kids while managing their wok and other chores. Children, among other things, need a lot of attention. And this, in turn asks for (more…)
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