Articles tagged: "tutoring"
1: How Does Your Child 's Mathematical Garden Grow? A Brief Overview of Methodology in the Math Class
For those of us who are old enough to remember classrooms with walls, the methods we used to learn math were teacher-centered and method-based. Those who came of age before cooperative learning became prevalent in schools probably remember learning one method of solving problems...
2: Math And The Arts: Essential Partners
It 's subtle, far-reaching, and coercive, and we start learning it as early as the first grade. It may not be well-supported by research, yet it defines many peoples' self-image, their college majors, and their job choices. What is it?
3: Chaos Theory: What Is It?
Like any decades, the 1990s had its trends, from the sartorial (backwards baseball caps) to the musical (grunge and, far more painfully, post-grunge), from the televisual (all those "Simpsons" ripoffs) to the political (Bill Clinton 's "New Democrats" and Newt Gingrich 's "Contract With America").
4: How To Use Algebra To Plan Your Future
Algebra represents some peoples' fondest memories of high school - and for others, it goes down in personal history as the one activity that tuned them out on math forever. But algebra offers instant help with an issue nearly everyone needs to think about - personal finances. For an example, let 's use algebra to figure the age at which you should begin withdrawing Social Security.
5: How Numbers Helped Save One Venerable Magazine
Among publishers, advertisers, and other business folk, the idea that Americans hate numbers is almost proverbial. One publishing-industry dictum holds that each equation an author puts in a book 's manuscript will cut that book 's sales in half. Pundits decry slipping American math scores, suggesting that such math illiteracy may indicate threats to future American dominance in business and industry.
6: How Math Makes Art Possible
A popular stereotype holds that some students are "math people" and some students, "humanities people." "Humanities people" excel in such subjects as English, visual art, history, drama, and social studies, because of their high creativity or "right-brainedness," while "math and logic people" struggle with creative subjects but excel at logic-driven disciplines.
7: Math Education: A Challenge And A Joy
Don't worry about your difficulties with math, Albert Einstein is said to have told a schoolgirl who wrote to him to lament her lack of success in the subject - "Mine," he wrote, "are still greater."
8: Zero: Sometimes Nothing Is Something
What 's in a number? In the case of the number zero, quite a bit. The story of this humblest of numbers - after all, it stands for nothing - is so interesting that in recent years several journalists have written popular books tracing its history.
9: Mathematics: A Beautiful Evolution
Most of the mathematical concepts we encounter every day - numbers, addition, subtraction - seem so basic, so hard to avoid in discussing reality on even the most basic level, that it 's hard to imagine someone having to sit down and invent them.
10: How To Win With Math
Every day, we make decisions based on what we think may, or most likely will, happen. Many of these decisions seem to be based more on wishful thinking than on logic - sure, you'll run off that extra banana split! No, of course you won't get a parking ticket in the course of a five-minute stop!
11: Tutor-Parent Communication
For a tutor, communication with parents is a must Tutors that communicate with the parent frequently tend to run a more successful business, land clients that are willing to pay slightly higher fees, and have clients that are more likely to offer referrals
12: Advice For Parent-Teacher Communication
Tutors not only help students understand material, but they also provide advice to frustrated or parents struggling to help their children The more informed tutors are, the more likely they are to offer sound advice
13: A Tutors Guide To An IEP
It is not uncommon for parents to use education lingo during the initial consultation with a new tutor One term that seems to come up quite often is the “IEP” or “Individualized Education Program”
14: Learn About Effective Tutoring
A tutor is someone who helps individuals or small groups with instruction. A tutor helps a student improve their personal learning strategies so they can become better learners and be empowered in the classroom.
15: 10 Tips For Supporting Your Child At Home
Parents often turn to tutors for advice about how to help their child at home A tutor will come across as more professional and knowledgeable if he or she has immediate ideas that can be either verbally explained or even presented to the parent in writing
16: The Initial Parent Consultation
Often new tutors find themselves nervous and intimidated when it comes to following up on leads and building their clientele from scratch Some may feel like a salesperson and feel awkward promoting their services and trying to “land” customers
17: Eta Bita Pi: One Of The World 's Most Interesting Numbers
Circles are odd things. We encounter them all the time in nature - in fact we couldn't exist without them, the earth and all its heavenly neighbors (including the sun) being spherical - and yet mathematicians and geometers insist that there are no perfect circles, outside the realm of theory.
18: How To Rationalize Your Cooking: Using Laws Of Proportion In The Kitchen
The word "rational" has all kinds of connotations - good and bad - in today 's culture. Be rational, we say to people who seem unable to see reason. Or, conversely, we tell people all too skilled at using fake logic to justify their own bad ideas: You're just rationalizing.
19: From Algebra To Art: Math 's Many Applications
It 's a question every math teacher hears. Most dread it. Some - the most creative - practically look forward to it. But love it or hate it, no one teaches math for long before a student asks: "How is this gonna help me in the real world?"
20: Beating Mr. Visa: How A Little Compound Interest Can Save A Lot Of Money
A question that vexes math students and teachers alike - "How does this apply to the rest of my life?" - turns out to have some surprising answers. Geometry in the living room? Statistics in your ledger? Yes, and yes.
21: The Math Hidden In Your Living Room
A question that vexes math students and teachers alike - "How does this apply to the rest of my life?" - turns out to have some surprising answers. Geometry in the living room? Statistics in your ledger? Yes, and yes.
22: The Numbers: What Are They?
There 's a question asked by any number of bored sophomores - and hard-working, frustrated adult learners as well - a question many math teachers dread, and that a few of the best welcome: "What does this math stuff have to do with everyday life?"
23: Do You Know the History of Mathematics?
If you've taken a first-year college history course - or read through a basic history textbook - you may have noticed a small gap. It 's only a thousand years or so.
24: Why Are Math Word Problems So Important?
Math word problems are frequently used to gauge students' ability to decipher pertinent information and also to assess students' ability to use their analytical and mathematics skills to solve problems. Math word problems are often used to relate mathematics to real life situations.
25: Playing Games: What John Nash Was Actually Famous For
As Chariots Of Fire did for Eric Liddell and Braveheart did for William Wallace, the 2002 film A Beautiful Mind made mathematician John Forbes Nash a household name - without necessarily rendering his life, or his work, much better-understood.
26: Advertising Ideas For Tutors
Tutoring, whether online or face-to-face, can be a very lucrative business, assuming you have the right number of clients I recommend sitting down and determining what your goals are, how much you plan to charge, and how many hours a week you plan to tutor
27: Tutoring Can Boost Your Childs Advantage
It seems that our teenage students here in the United States are lagging farther and farther behind in the areas of math and science than their peers in over twenty industrialized countries.
28: 12 Great Memory Strategies For Better Grades
"I forgot" "I can't remember that
29: Math Help for the Adult Student Returning to School
More adults than ever before are returning to formal education. Some want to learn what they have failed to learn in high school. Some have made the momentous decision to earn a high school diploma or to go to college for the first - or second or third - time. And some, particularly those in mid-life, want additional education in order to recharge a stalled career or start an entirely new one.
30: Math Help Can Be a Good Family Activity
We all use math in our everyday lives. Many of us consider ourselves to be "math phobic", "math deficient" or "mathematically challenged." Perhaps we communicate these ideas to our children or perhaps we and our children truly are any or all of the above. In educational institutions, where math is taught largely in the abstract and without practical application.
31: Why Start A Tutoring Business?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could walk into your office or classroom and tell your boss that you only want to work certain hours, or come in on certain days, or maybe not even come in at all and work from home instead Imagine picking and choosing the co-workers or students that you deal with or demand a specific salary for your efforts
32: Who Can Become A Tutor?
With the demand for student success increasing at a startling rate due to No Child Left Behind, more and more parents are turning to tutoring to give their child an edge in the classroom and on the state mandated tests This demand translates into a need for tutors, both online tutors and those that meet with students in person
33: China: A Dynasty Of Mathematical Genius
One of the most fascinating things about history is the amount of it that 's been wiped out - on purpose. For example, in the ninth century CE, the greatest library in the world, the Library of Alexandria, was burned in an act of war, and ever since, history buffs have kept themselves tantalized and amused by trying to guess the identity of some of those books we'll never see.
34: Math Help: Why is My Child Struggling in Math?
Parents often ask why their children are doing poorly in math, particularly in grades 2-6. For young children, abstract quantities can be daunting, especially when taught in the context of skill drills. Many children do not find immediate meaning in numbers as symbols, although that is what parents and math teachers hope to convey to them.
35: Tutoring Can Boost Your Childs Advantage
A tutoring can give you child an edge over normal students. This could be the extra boost needed to excel academically.
36: Get Real! Real Life for Ways for Parents to Provide Math Help
Does your toddler appear to have a streak of your genius? Do you seek strategies to enrich your toddler 's intellectual capacity? Recent research has challenged the conventional notion that small children have native ability to distinguish quantity and to count.
37: Helping Parents Understand What Online Tutoring Is All About
One of the biggest challenges to running a successful online tutoring business is getting parents to understand exactly what online tutoring is and how it will work for their child Never assume that the parents that you will be dealing with are as tech savvy as the children you will be tutoring
38: Earn Money As A Tutor While In College
One of the most lucrative things I did when I was a college student was to start my own tutoring business I didn’t intend to, it just happened
39: Reasons For Starting A Tutoring Business
There are some times in our life where we feel like it is time to make a change Sometimes this change might be a major one such as having another child, moving, or switching careers
40: Homework Help 2.0
It’s a hi-tech homework haven—where the blackboards are chalk-free, students receive one-on-one attention, and the classroom is actually your living room Welcome to the world of online tutoring and Tutapoint
41: Never Tell Your Kids They're Smart
So math wasn't my best subject. Alright, it was my worst subject. I'm more of a language person, really. Considering my father taught statistics at the local university, and that everyone in my tiny town knew him, it was rather embarrassing.
42: Saving Our Dropouts By Saving Math: Math Grades May Predict Who Survives High School
Research conducted in 2005 by Johns Hopkins University and the Philadelphia Education Fund revealed that as many as half of all Philadelphia high school dropouts showed signs predicting their early departure from school as early as the sixth grade.
