Math
Learn how your child can improve their math skills by using these simple and useful tips.
Why Developing Reading Skills May Help Your Child’s Fear of Math Word Problems
Can you solve this word problem?
A pen and a pencil cost one dollar and twenty cents in total. The pen costs one dollar more than the pencil. How much does the pencil cost?
The answer is 10 cents. Did you get it right?
If you broke out in a cold sweat at the
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The Perception of Math: Venus vs. Mars
“Mathematics Anxiety” a Cause for Underrepresentation of Women in STEM Fields
Performance, social acceptance, preference. There have been many debates on why women are often underrepresented in the male-dominated science, technology, engineering and math fields (STEM).
According to one recent study, girls across the globe are experiencing more “math anxiety” than boys, resulting in negative
Celebrate Mathematics With These Three Pi Lessons!
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Considering the fact that we pride ourselves in Mathematics at Kumon, we couldn’t skip over March 14th without celebrating Pi Day. We’d be doing you an injustice. In fact, our love for math is just like pi—irrational, constant and infinite in nature. Every year on March 14th, math lovers around the world celebrate
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Common Core Math and School Math
The goal of the Common Core State Standards is to ensure that students will be both college and career-ready. They do all this through developing their skills and knowledge by the end of high school. A secondary purpose is to have consistent criteria of grade-level expectations in English Language Arts and Mathematics across states. In
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