What are the best, highest paying, fastest growing careers for math people? It’s no secret that over the next few decades we will see an increase in the demand for people in the medical field and service industry. The need for skilled employees in STEM related careers will increase with the demands of innovation. So…
What parking space # is the car parked in? To find the correct answer quickly, you have to look at the problem from a different angle. Turn the page upside down. Ok, you can’t turn your computers or laptops on their heads, but you probably can read the numbers upside down anyway. A 9 becomes…
Happy (Belated) Global Parents Day! I was looking for inspirational quotes about being a parent to share with you because the beginning of June marked Global Parents Day. What I found surprised me: instead of lots of great sayings about being a parent, I came across dozens of quotes about honoring your own parents. There…
In the diagram, the blanks must be filled with any number between 1 and 9 so that the equation works. Each number can only be used once. The colon “:” means divide. (check out the answer) Here’s how Alex Bellos of the Guardian, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, explains it in his May 21, 2015…
Former Miracle Math Student Dayna Lipkin went on to be a communications major and broadcast superstar at Cal State University, Fresno. Here’s what she had to say about Miracle Math while she was in the program: 1. Why did you seek help from the program? I’ve had trouble with math all of my life. I’ve always needed…
May is Zombie Awareness Month, and that got me to thinking about what I’d do if blood-thirsty creatures started taking over the world. Of course, my top three goals would be 1) to save my family, 2) to save my family and, 3) to save my family. My husband, Diondre, and I would lay down our…
The math problem, “When is Cheryl’s Birthday?” has gone viral. A google search generated 251 news articles about it in one day. Some of the headlines included: “The (Solvable) Math Problem that will Break your Brain” “Forget the Common Core. Can you Figure out Cheryl’s Birthday?” “The Logic Problem that Blew up the Internet” What’s…
We all know that I like to brag about what great students, parents, staff and coaches we have at Miracle Math. We’re awesome. And now the entire tutoring industry knows it. The National Tutoring Association (NTA) is the largest and oldest professional organization for tutoring professionals, and it’s featured two of Miracle Math’s blog posts…
I am always so very proud of my students. When they do well, I realize that the hard work my staff, coaches and I is paying off. Janiya is one of our amazing, hard-working students, and she’s been named “Student of the Month” at her school!” Yeah!!! for Janiya. Here’s what her mother, La Tanya Terrones,…
Some people believe an Academic Coach and a Tutor are the same thing. Nope. That’s like saying a fruit salad is the same as a pineapple. They’re both food. Both consist of fruit. Both are satisfying (though not like Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey). But one offers grapes, strawberries, pears and pineapples. Math Tutoring teaches…