With all the myths floating around about the Common Core, preparing for tests can be pretty intimidating – what are they all about? What skills are they testing for? You try to look it up, but breaking down Common Core …
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5 Tips to Keep Your Child Focused over Holiday Break
While you may or may not want your child to do homework over winter break, you definitely don’t want them to forget everything they learned or worse: forget how to learn. But don’t worry. These 5 tips can help keep …
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Benefits of an Arts Education for Students
You’ve put your children in a good school, you’ve enrolled them in a quality educational enrichment program and enrichment camps, and you spend time with them to make sure they understand the importance of their studies. What more can you …
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5 Best Strategies for Reading Aloud in Class
Many people think that if you know how to read, you know how to read out loud. Well, yes and no. Reading out loud has a couple of major differences – like speaking and having an audience (that’s a pretty …
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Real Stories: Ilisha & A Grade Ahead
The owners of A Grade Ahead (formerly MathWizard) didn’t start writing math material to open their own educational enrichment business. They started writing it to help their first child excel in math. Even after it evolved into a business …
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15 Academic Extracurricular Activities That Kids Will Love
Enrolling your child in an educational enrichment program is a great way to help him or her get ahead at school. Another great way is to get involved in academic extracurricular activities. Academic extracurricular activities focus on making learning exciting …
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Favorite Educational Quotes from MathWizard Blog Writers
Why do MathWizard’s writers like quotes so much? Who knows? Maybe, it’s because we write all the time. Maybe, it’s a teacher thing. Maybe, there’s something in the water. Whatever the reason, we all have our favorite educational quotes. Here are our …
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Online Math Games for High School Students
Online Math Games for High School Students Starting with Algebra I, it gets harder and harder to find good online math games and programs to help high school students practice and study. And that’s unfortunate since high school students are usually …
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Should Your Child Take Geometry This Summer?
Should Your Child Take Geometry This Summer? 4 Questions to Ask First I teach Algebra and Geometry at an educational enrichment company that focuses on helping students excel, so I get questions like this frequently from both parents and …
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The ACT and the New SAT: Which Is Best for Your Students
How do you pick between the ACT and the SAT when you don’t even know what’s on them anymore? Sure, at first glance the changes to the New SAT make it look like they’re the same test. OK, maybe, not …
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