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Important Steps to Learning Success
One of the greatest truths in learning is that none of us are as smart as all of us combined. The unity of a team develops each person’s full potential and learning capacity. Success isn’t achieved by a single individual. It requires a team that perpetuates learning outside of the classroom as well as in…
8 Go-To Websites for Turning Your Child into an Academic Star
By Deanna Hurn, Founder and Executive Director of Miracle Math Coaching Hello Everyone! School’s underway, and you probably know in general how well your child is doing. If you don’t, it’s not difficult to find out. You can go to back-to-school night if it hasn’t already passed or just contact your child’s school to find…
Knowing When your Child Needs Help with Homework
When your child is crying or ripping their homework to shreds, it is easy to see they need some help with homework. However, not all children are vocal or open about their struggles. In fact, you may be nine weeks into a school semester before you have a clue there is a problem. Here are…
A Secret Technique to Help Your Younger Child with Math
By Deanna Hurn, Founder and Executive Director of Miracle Math Coaching Let’s say your child is struggling with counting or can’t remember shapes. What do you do? Usually, parents sit down and try to help their students themselves. Not a good idea. Research shows that parents who are anxious about Math do more harm than…
3 Ways that Doing Math is Like Going to an Amusement Park
By Deanna Hurn, Founder and Executive Director of Miracle Math Coaching Though it sounds like a stretch, Math mastery and a trip to an amusement park like Six Flags Discovery Kingdom have more in common than you’d think. And, no, it doesn’t have to do with calculating the speed of the Medusa roller coaster. It…
Our Discovery Process: Individualized Assessment
No two people in the world have the same brain, or learn in the same manner. The brain is constantly growing and evolving and adapting to its environment. It is changing to adjust to our skills, experiences, and our level of understanding. By understanding this a parent, you will have a higher level of appreciation…
3 Little-Known Apps to Solve Pesky Back-to-School Problems
By Deanna Hurn, Founder and Executive Director of Miracle Math Coaching What happens when your five-year-old freaks out on the first day of school? How can you get your child out of the house in time to catch the bus? What do you pack for lunch if your kids are likely to dump the nutritious…
Importance of Kids Learning to Explain Their Math Thinking
Over the course of the past twenty years, the organization known as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has been a leader in the concept of motivating children to explain their math thinking within the classroom environment. It is believed that this activity helps a child to reason in a mathematical manner and…
10 Free Apps that Educators Recommend for Back to School
By Deanna Hurn, Founder and Executive Director of Miracle Math Coaching Hip Hip Hurrah! School’s started! As much as I love my darlings, I can’t help but do a little dance at this time of year. But going back to school can also be stressful. Last week, I shared with you apps for specific challenges…
Three Ways that Kids who are Good at Math Benefit as Adults
By Deanna Hurn, Founder and Executive Director of Miracle Math Coaching As parents, we want our children to grow up to be happy, healthy and wise. We run ourselves ragged to increase the odds of that happening – from ferrying them to sports and music classes, to monitoring what they eat and when they sleep…
When to Seek Math Tutoring: The Earlier the Better
Let’s face it. Not everyone is good at math. If your child has had a tough time with mathematics in the past, it might be time to get started with tutoring. The earlier you start, the better off that they will be in the long run. For the struggling child, in-class learning may be compared…
Six Ways Parents are Helping their Children Succeed in School
By Deanna Hurn, Founder and Executive Director of Miracle Math Coaching Parents influence a student’s academic achievement five times more than teachers do, according to research conducted by the Royal Economic Society in the United Kingdom (UK). And the Math nerd in me is happy to report that parental influence is strongest in Math and…
Is Your Child a Thinker or a Zombie?
By Deanna Hurn, Founder and Executive Director of Miracle Math Coaching Here’s one of my fav posts from the past… We all want our children to be Einsteins. Parenting Expert Vicki Hoefle says it best: “Thinking Kids are WAY more FUN to Raise than Zombie kids who don’t think for themselves.” So what’s the difference…
End of Summer Tips for Getting Kids in the Back to School Mode
For some kids, the thought of a new school year can make them jump for joy. Others may face it with dread due to the overwhelming exhaustion from early mornings, homework and extracurricular activities. Regardless of how they view it, there is a definitive shift when it comes to routine from the lazy days of…
3 Fun Math Apps to Keep the Brain Active During the Summer Months
Math is often a grueling, unenjoyable subject by children; however, it does not have to be! It is common for the consistent drill overkill when it comes to the subject matter. But Math Apps can make it fun during the summer! Despite a parent or a teacher’s best intentions, this can really turn youngsters “off”…