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Knowing that math is often the most difficult subject
for students, we incorporate many different strategies to help our students
overcome their difficulties with math and even begin to enjoy it.
We at Bartelt Education Center tutors our students
that math (including algebra) is a game. Like many games, it has pieces, moves,
strategies, goals, and its own vocabulary. Usually, the object of a game is to
discover some specific unknown by using available clues. We teach our students
problem-solving skills, not just memorizing set formulas. Whenever possible, we
relate problems to the real world in clear, simple terms that students relate
to. But for more abstract problems such as in algebra and higher mathematics,
students are shown that math is a game that sometimes has no direct
relationship to anything we can touch or count. Nevertheless, our successful
students discover for themselves that algebra (and more difficult mathematics
such as calculus) is a game as well. The elements of the game don't need to
relate to anything you can touch as in simple arithmetic.
Because of this approach, we tutor that all aspects of
learning mathematics can be fun. It is a toolkit for solving mysteries. Using
whatever clues we find, we translate the mystery using numbers and symbols.
After we've manipulated the numbers in accordance with the rules, we translate
the result back into real-world terms. After initialing measuring a student's
particular math level, we at Bartelt Education Center help our students
discover the rules of math, and to have fun doing so.
Bartelt Education
Center
(In the Raley's Shopping Center)
706 W. Onstott
Rd.
Yuba City, CA 95991-3511
 info@yubacitytutor.com
530-751-0625 |
