How to Strengthen Your Child's Middle School Math Experience: 10 Concrete Strategies to Build Knowledge and Improve Understanding

Help Your Child Build Great Habits to Improve Math Understanding

This ebook provides 10 concrete strategies that middle school students can use immediately to improve their understanding, build knowledge and better their experience in their middle school math classes (Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, and Geometry). As students move from concrete to more abstract math concepts these 10 strategies provide scaffolding to approach new material and grow confidently in middle school. Specific explanations, examples, and click-through resource links are provided in each chapter with a focus on building knowledge and long-term learning goals (~11,300 words).  Topics include:

• Organization - the foundation for success in middle school
• Note Taking - build a simple system to strengthen understanding with language
• Effective Reading - actively approach new material in the text
• Benefits of Writing - visualize your thinking
• Using the Text - leverage free online resources from the publisher
• Homework - more than just practice
• 21st Century Technology - blended learning, mobile technology and more
• Getting Help - leverage the student-teacher relationship
• Preparation - thinking about how you think
• Play! - use online games to bolster thinking (not doing)
• Resources - summary of nearly 50 curated resource links

Recommended resource click-through links to articles, blogs, books, websites and videos are provided at the end of each chapter. A list of nearly 50 curated click-through resource links is provided in the Resources section.