What is an easy technique to teach a 5th grader the basics of math?
my child struggles with elementary math and it stresses me when i try to help! nyone out there out there to help with this problem? ............Distressed Mother
Your quest does not rest solely with your child's present struggle with math, for surely, thousands of other children like yours is struggling if not with math then with writing or reading...or name it.
I suggest that you become creative; that you get with others, say, teachers and other parents; then form a study group -- or several groups in varying subjects for sake of the other students as well -- and have some one adult proficient in both tutoring and mathematics itself, and thus help these students diminish the anxieties associating with these learning "log jams," but which more important can indeed enhance the child's method of 'learning' the subjects, which in your child's instance here is mathematics. It has as easily be some other subject that your child is caught-up with, is what I am saying here.
I say this. Improvement in education and learning shall come by the likes of you who changes learning and education in this nation and will not arise necessarily alone by means of money injected into the education systems.
In the military there is a set principle that applies to your circumstance: Improvise, Create, Innovate the solution. Hence study groups will fling your child into adeptness in math relatively quickly because when anyone joins with others, he or she learns more incisively, broadly, deeply, and more openly -- and will more likely tend to wish to share this with others.
Too many today rely on some cookie-cutter method. This no longer works...doesn't work for anyone, in all actuality. It all does come to what was once said by President J.F. Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country." This same principle applies to you and what you can do 'for' your child and education itself. Short of having money to pay a tutor, improvise some kind of learning method, preferably one in which your child can get with other students.
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