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Help Your Kids Tackle ‘Multiplication Math Blues’

Help Your Kids Tackle ‘Multiplication Math Blues’

By Elizabeth Colon of Above Grade Level Fredericksburg and Northern Virginia
You can help your kids overcome the multiplication math blues.  What do I mean by the multiplication math blues?
I’ve recently come across a number of students who are struggling with math (not particularly shocking because of the business I am in).
Frequently their assessment reflects proficiency in multiplication but falls apart in division, percentages, fractions and decimals. Why?

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Three Tutoring Myths

Three Tutoring Myths

A bi-weekly column on Fredericksburg.Today by Elizabeth Colon, Above Grade Level Fredericksburg and Northern Virginia
A friend of mine recently expressed some concern about tutoring.  She told me that there are “myths” associated with it.  This came as a surprise to me —  I guess I had just thought people either were or were not interested, but that they had the information to make the decision.  I was clearly very WRONG!

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