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Based on your responses, we crafted a customized report for you.
Keep reading to discover our customized recommendations for your child for eliminating their math anxiety, their potential for improvement and the exact reasons why they are struggling with math.
Based on your responses, we crafted a customized report for you.
Keep reading to discover our customized recommendations for your child for eliminating their math anxiety, their potential for improvement and the exact reasons why they are struggling with math.
Your Child’s Situation
Your Child’s Situation
Your child’s homework score is high or perhaps even 100%, but that doesn’t carry over to their grades on tests and quizzes.
This situation can be very frustrating and confusing. To both your child and you. How can it be possible? How can your child do so well on homework and yet so poorly on tests? Shouldn't your child's great homework performance indicate their high math level?
Unfortunately, that's not the case.
Homework isn't a reflection of your child's math level.
Here is why:
Your child understands many problems, but has hard time solving them independently, especially under pressure (thus, low quiz and test scores). Some concepts are easy for them while others are very challenging.
When those challenging problems occur on the homework, your child can look through their notes, ask their friends for help or simply solve them incorrectly (and still get a full score, that's right).
On the other hand, when the challenging concepts occur on tests, your child gets confused and loses a lot of points.
Homework doesn't teach math.
It simply reinforces the mistakes, and makes your child feel as though they are making progress. In reality, they aren't – which is apparent to you based on their test scores.
Your child needs help bridging the gap between their homework and tests:
They need to learn how to solve problems independently. They need to use deep learning to really understand math concepts. Not just those they get on the homework but the whole variety, including special cases and challenging cases.
Instead of simply completing homework for the grade, they need to use homework to actually learn. Then, they need to expand on the homework, to tackle the concepts that are most challenging for them. They also need to strengthen their fundamentals, for success and confidence in their current and future math classes. And math fundamentals are, unfortunately, also not included in the homework.
Doing well on homework and struggling with tests makes many children lose their confidence very quickly. Putting in the effort with no results, over and over again, makes them very frustrated and discouraged.
Your child already struggles with independent solving, along with (likely) fundamental math concepts, and losing even more confidence is only adding to the problem.
This situation can be very frustrating and confusing. To both your child and you. How can it be possible? How can your child do so well on homework and yet so poorly on tests? Shouldn't your child's great homework performance indicate their high math level?
Unfortunately, that's not the case.
Homework isn't a reflection of your child's math level.
Here is why:
- this might shock you but getting 100% on homework doesn't mean your child actually solved all (or even most) of the problems correctly
- homework tends to be easier than tests
- homework often doesn't include all concepts that occur on tests
- homework doesn't have a time limit, and tests do
- homework is open-notes and tests aren't
Your child understands many problems, but has hard time solving them independently, especially under pressure (thus, low quiz and test scores). Some concepts are easy for them while others are very challenging.
When those challenging problems occur on the homework, your child can look through their notes, ask their friends for help or simply solve them incorrectly (and still get a full score, that's right).
On the other hand, when the challenging concepts occur on tests, your child gets confused and loses a lot of points.
Homework doesn't teach math.
It simply reinforces the mistakes, and makes your child feel as though they are making progress. In reality, they aren't – which is apparent to you based on their test scores.
Your child needs help bridging the gap between their homework and tests:
They need to learn how to solve problems independently. They need to use deep learning to really understand math concepts. Not just those they get on the homework but the whole variety, including special cases and challenging cases.
Instead of simply completing homework for the grade, they need to use homework to actually learn. Then, they need to expand on the homework, to tackle the concepts that are most challenging for them. They also need to strengthen their fundamentals, for success and confidence in their current and future math classes. And math fundamentals are, unfortunately, also not included in the homework.
Doing well on homework and struggling with tests makes many children lose their confidence very quickly. Putting in the effort with no results, over and over again, makes them very frustrated and discouraged.
Your child already struggles with independent solving, along with (likely) fundamental math concepts, and losing even more confidence is only adding to the problem.
Your Child’s Skill Chart
Your Child’s Skill Chart
Fundamentals
Confidence
Homework
Tests
Independence
How Your Child Can Reach Their #1 Math Goal:
Gain Unshakeable Confidence
How Your Child Can Reach Their #1 Math Goal:
Gain Unshakeable Confidence
Does your child shy away from learning math, because they are afraid they won't understand it?
Do they avoid challenges?
Are they afraid of making mistakes to the point that they don't even try?
Do they get stressed out before tests?
Do they question their answers and often say “I'm sure this is wrong”?
Do they call themselves “stupid”?
Confidence is critical in math.
Confidence is the most important, all-encompassing skill your child desperately needs to do well in math (and in life).
Lack of confidence hinders your child's progress because they won't approach challenging problems.
Lack of confidence means your child shies away from difficult concepts and is not able to be as independent as they need to be.
Lack of confidence often spills over to other subjects (particularly science) and affects your child's confidence in their learning skills overall.
Unfortunately, many children struggle with confidence.
Unfortunately, your child is one of them.
Fortunately, confidence is a skill.
Confidence is like a muscle.
Your child can develop their confidence and maintain it.
That's right.
Confidence is not this mysterious quality unachievable for most.
It doesn’t require great math skills or special talents. It can be develop from the ground up, while your child is learning new concepts and even if they are still establishing their math fundamentals.
Even if they are struggling.
Confidence doesn't come from being great at math.
As a matter of fact, it comes from mistakes. Your child needs to experience making mistakes, understanding them and correcting them.
Hence, confidence doesn't require genius math skills or perfection but it does require consistency and methodical approach. And willingness to make mistakes and analyze them.
To gain unshakeable confidence, your child needs to start with basic examples, truly analyze them in-depth and understand them. Only then will they establish the understanding necessary to tackle more complex and challenging problems.
Instead, a lot of children do problems in the order the homework is assigned, which is to say randomly. Inevitably, they feel frustrated because they don't establish a solid in-depth understanding to tackle challenging or even intermediate problems. How could they, if they haven’t really learned how to solve the basic ones?
Hence, to develop confidence, your child needs to gradually increasing the level of difficulty of the problems they solve and attempt to solve them with less and less guidance.
To be confident in their ability to solve variety of different problems, including challenging examples and special cases, your child needs to use Deep Learning – solve each problem type until they solve 3 consecutive problems correctly.
While applying all of these methods, your child needs to remember that making mistakes is the essence of learning. It is not the reason to feel discouraged or “stupid”. It’s a sign that they are learning new things and challenging themselves.
That's right – mistakes are a sign of progress. The key point is to face problems that are challenging but attainable.
Do they avoid challenges?
Are they afraid of making mistakes to the point that they don't even try?
Do they get stressed out before tests?
Do they question their answers and often say “I'm sure this is wrong”?
Do they call themselves “stupid”?
Confidence is critical in math.
Confidence is the most important, all-encompassing skill your child desperately needs to do well in math (and in life).
Lack of confidence hinders your child's progress because they won't approach challenging problems.
Lack of confidence means your child shies away from difficult concepts and is not able to be as independent as they need to be.
Lack of confidence often spills over to other subjects (particularly science) and affects your child's confidence in their learning skills overall.
Unfortunately, many children struggle with confidence.
Unfortunately, your child is one of them.
Fortunately, confidence is a skill.
Confidence is like a muscle.
Your child can develop their confidence and maintain it.
That's right.
Confidence is not this mysterious quality unachievable for most.
It doesn’t require great math skills or special talents. It can be develop from the ground up, while your child is learning new concepts and even if they are still establishing their math fundamentals.
Even if they are struggling.
Confidence doesn't come from being great at math.
As a matter of fact, it comes from mistakes. Your child needs to experience making mistakes, understanding them and correcting them.
Hence, confidence doesn't require genius math skills or perfection but it does require consistency and methodical approach. And willingness to make mistakes and analyze them.
To gain unshakeable confidence, your child needs to start with basic examples, truly analyze them in-depth and understand them. Only then will they establish the understanding necessary to tackle more complex and challenging problems.
Instead, a lot of children do problems in the order the homework is assigned, which is to say randomly. Inevitably, they feel frustrated because they don't establish a solid in-depth understanding to tackle challenging or even intermediate problems. How could they, if they haven’t really learned how to solve the basic ones?
Hence, to develop confidence, your child needs to gradually increasing the level of difficulty of the problems they solve and attempt to solve them with less and less guidance.
To be confident in their ability to solve variety of different problems, including challenging examples and special cases, your child needs to use Deep Learning – solve each problem type until they solve 3 consecutive problems correctly.
While applying all of these methods, your child needs to remember that making mistakes is the essence of learning. It is not the reason to feel discouraged or “stupid”. It’s a sign that they are learning new things and challenging themselves.
That's right – mistakes are a sign of progress. The key point is to face problems that are challenging but attainable.
Your Child’s Potential For Improvement
Your Child’s Potential For Improvement
Your child needs to learn multiple variations of problems. Each topics consists of several major types your child needs to master to do well. Even if the homework doesn't include all of them, tests most likely do.
Your child needs to solve problems independently to gain confidence, feel strong and be prepared for tests. Simply solving problems isn't enough.
In order for your child to understand math concepts in-depth and build the foundation for success in their future math classes, they need to become fluent and confident in the fundamentals of math.
Your child needs to use homework and expand on it to identify and eliminate their unique weaknesses, instead of simply completing the homework. It will help them get better grades, progress faster, gain confidence and so much more.
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