Math can be easy.

It doesn’t have to be hard…

check this video out even a preschooler can understand exponent addition when it is put in a simple way…

It may not be the student with the problem.

Maybe you weren’t the one with the problem maybe the person teaching it to you didn’t explain it is a way you understood…

Do not get me wrong I love teaches and have the greatest respect for them. However they have one of the toughest jobs on the planet, in my opinion.

Every Child learns differently.

Let me explain, every child  has had different experiences, every child has learnt different things, the way every child learns is different, so how on earth is it possible for every child to understand a concept when it is only taught in one way and the teacher only has time to teach it in only that one way and has 30 or so students in the class. Yes the majority of the students will get it but there will be those that do not for various reasons.

You/Your Child is NOT dumb.

More to the point just because a child doesn’t understand a concept it doesn’t mean they are dumb, look for another way to engage the child and help them understand.

Think outside the square.

When my daughter was learning fractions she was really struggling, however I had the luxury of only teaching 1 child as I was home educating her.

Part of the problem was she was getting very confused with the difference between 2/3 (two thirds) and 2 1/3 (two and one third) she thought they were the same. So I got her to choose which she thought was biggest, than I got some rectangular chocolate biscuits and cut them into the fractions and physically showed her the fraction. Unfortunately for her she thought the two thirds (2/3) was biggest so I got the two and one thirds. She never forgot the difference and it really helped her understand.