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How to Help Your Child With Homework Even if your Math Sucks!

There are no excuses today for any parent not to be able to help their children with home work whether it is math or English or any other subject for that matter. Long gone are the days when parents would be terrified stiff at the thought of having to help their child with math homework. Today, it’s just a simple matter of going online and accessing sites that have made this tedious and stressful chore a breeze for both parents and students.

Parents freak out, when it comes to helping their children with their homework. This is unfortunately still a common everyday occurrence. Despite the availability of up to date methods online that could easily solve their problem, many parents are still trying to help their children the way they were taught at school. This, obviously, does not seem to help as teaching methods have evolved and changed over time.

Others usually hire private tutors in order to help their children score the high marks needed to secure better places in universities. Despite the high hourly rates tutors charge, parents continue to retain their services because of limited choices. Not any more…

Today, the internet abounds with all types of learning programs offered by various online companies. It has been the gold rush, so to say, during the last five years. Educational companies cropped up everywhere like mushrooms. Many of them have been created to do just one thing, make money by selling as many programs as possible. It has therefore, become not a simple matter to select a site that would fit in a student’s particular needs.

When it comes to learning, especially math, everyone is different. It’s not just a matter of showing a lesson and to assume that this would be sufficient for a student to understand what is being taught. It unfortunately doesn’t work that way. Still, most of the sites online today are doing just that.

It is quite a common opinion that if a child is having problem with a concept, it is a matter of just getting help for that particular lesson and ‘Eureka!’ Many online sites deliver lessons in this way. They deliver a lesson on a particular lesson that is requested and it is up to the student to view and understand it. If he cannot understand the first time he has the opportunity to view it several times until fully understood, right? WRONG! To deliver a lesson assuming that the viewer knows, or has the basics to understand what is being taught, is a big mistake and that’s where most online help fail

The reason usually why one seeks help on line is not to get a quick fix solution but to make sure that principles are understood to the extent that one is able to solve problems related to such topics on one’s own. The aim should be to learn and being able to apply what is learnt; in two words: complete understanding. This can only be achieved by going back to the basics and revise all lessons related to that topic and work one’s way up to the current difficulty level. Not many sites are geared to fulfill such requirements…

It is a fact that nothing beats the classroom teacher when it comes to understanding. In a 35 to 40 minutes classroom period a teacher makes use of the whiteboard, uses examples to elaborate the lesson being taught in order to ensure understanding. Still, at the end of the period, there would be those who would not dare ask questions due to peer pressure. These kids would find it hard to cope with their homework and end up asking parents or friends for help. Problem solved you might think! Not so fast, the following week’s lesson will be based on what was not fully learnt… That’s when it all starts to snowball and six months down the tract it’s all too much hard work and the easier way is to bail out!

This needn’t happen. Would not it be great if those kids could go back in time, six months, a year or even two years, and see their teachers teaching them the topics and lessons they missed or which they were not able to fully grasp, work their way up to the present time and easily tackle the homework they are currently doing? Not only that, but also view the next lesson that would be taught the following week in class, making the math class less stressful…

Richard Pidial is a teacher, educator and CEO of www.MathLearningSite.com Now discover how you can help your child overcome math learning difficulties re-orientate and make a 180 turn around in a short time.

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