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Math Tutoring: A Teacher’s Perspective
We teachers are idealists, no? Why else would we go into the profession? We clearly believe that all children can be educated, pushed beyond where they are, and induced to grow academically. But experience quickly teaches us that not all students attain knowledge similarly and equally. Some students develop skills more slowly than others, while [...]
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Math Tutoring: A Parent’s Perspective
When I was a youth, and I would ask my father for help with, say, my geography homework, he always gave me the same answer: “I already passed high school math!” He was, of course, using a bit of humor to cover for the fact that, decades after he last thought about Pythagoras and Isoceles, [...]
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