Does My Student Need Economics? Personal Finance? Or Both?
The study of economics is essentially the study of how and why people make the choices they do. Wait a minute. Isn’t economics about money? Yes, sort of. Money is how we assign value to the choices that we make. Every choice we make is a determination of how we...
Word Problems in Math Class: An Important Oxymoron
Why are word problems important in elementary school math? What skills does solving word problems help students develop? How do word problems benefit my math student? These are questions many of us ask as we help math students solve word problems. After all, this...
Can Two Negatives Really Create Something Positive?
Is watching your child struggle in math really such a bad thing? A positive times a positive is positive, a positive times a negative is negative, a negative times a negative is positive. What?? Ughh? Sigh? Head drops to table. To connect this to a personal real-life...