Math Anxiety Can be Overcome
Math Anxiety has a History Many students feel anxious about learning math. In the last international assessment, 23% of American students reported that they feel helpless when doing math problems… Read more »
Author Archives: Dr.Jenny
Creating the Mindful Cafe Homeschool Program
Creating a Homeschool Program at the Mindful Cafe Dr. Jenny is creating a homeschool program at the Mindful Cafe in Ramsey, NJ for the 2019-2020 school year. The program runs… Read more »
How Math is Used to Confuse
While math appears objective, mathematical language and presentation can be used to deceive. Mathematics arguments depend on assumptions and rules of logic; there may seem to be no room for… Read more »
PEMDAS
Order of Arithmetic Matters Addition and subtraction go together. Multiplication and division go together. What happens when you combine them? How do calculations change when you have addition, subtraction, multiplication,… Read more »
Why Learn to Multiply Fractions?
After learning what fractions are and various ways to write them, you learned to find common denominators to add and subtract them. Next, you will learn to multiply them. Fractions… Read more »