DianaE2022-10-31T17:34:19+11:00Posted in Parent Advice, Remembering Stuff
Your brain, just like your heart or your lungs or your biceps, is a muscle, and becomes stronger when it is used regularly. You may be familiar with exercises that strengthen your biceps, or workouts that keep your heart strong, but you may not be as familiar with ..
DianaE2022-10-31T17:36:34+11:00Posted in Parent Advice, Starting Tutoring
Many parents struggle with knowing how to help their children who are having a hard time with math. If the parents are not math aficionados, helping their children with high-level math can cause stress in the relationship and end up doing more harm than good. Parents who love ..
DianaE2022-10-31T19:26:27+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Parent Advice
Carol had tried everything when it came to helping her middle school daughter Claire understand her math homework. As if teenage girls and their moms don’t have enough to butt heads about, trying to figure out the math homework became a nightly battle, and nobody was winning. ..
DianaE2022-11-16T21:55:44+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Remembering Stuff, Study Habits
There is a fascinating graphic floating around the Internet that really puts the importance of nightly reading into perspective: It explains that students who read for 20 minutes a day will come in contact with over 1,800,000 words by the end of the school year. A student ..
DianaE2022-10-31T19:45:50+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Concentration & Focus, Parent Advice
Many people are familiar with learning disabilities that make it hard for a child to read, comprehend what they are reading, or write. These disabilities make it a struggle for kids to process the letters and words that make up the content they are reading. There is another ..
DianaE2022-11-30T01:23:25+11:00Posted in Motivation & Interest, Primary School Learning, Structuring Lessons
It is important for parents, teachers and tutors to remember that before students are students, they are children. And children are built to play. They learn through playing from the time they are very small, and continue to grow mentally, emotionally and physically when they are encouraged to ..
DianaE2022-10-29T00:34:35+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Parent Advice
If your child is an avid reader, and enjoys story telling, words and writing over math concepts and functions, these six books are must haves for their growing library. Combining their love for reading with various math concepts could be the secret to helping them develop a love ..
jamesline2022-11-16T22:04:20+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning
In my opinion a majority of people do not like mathematics. This is largely because many people are not particularly good at it and this means many people cannot wait until they no longer have to take it (this applies to many people who are good at maths ..
jamesline2022-10-29T00:44:24+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning
I get quite despairing at times when i listen to the political football that is education. It is not all negative however as there are many people who are trying to improve things for everyone. There are many great teachers and tutorials on the internet. To anybody ..
DianaE2022-11-16T22:32:46+11:00Posted in All About Exams, All Categories
Q: What is the best way to study for a multiple-choice test?A. Review the material for the first time as you drive to schoolB. Follow this informative set of guidelinesC. “Work together” with the smart kid who sits in front of you Multiple choice is a commonly chosen ..
