Ask any teacher or student what their least favorite thing about math is and more than likely you will hear the response of word problems come up again and again. They are no picnic for parents either! For students staring down a word problem, it can feel like they are being tested on an entirely...

Trying to find the most worthwhile way to help your child in math can be a little overwhelming.  We get it.  As a parent it can be confusing just trying to figure out where to start, what math skills they need to focus on, and identify a reliable program that will actually have an...

Raise your hand if you can remember working your way through the math computational problems on a worksheet and feeling good about the work you had done so far and then BAM…there it was...at the end of the worksheet, a word problem (cue the instrumental score from JAWS). You pumped...

If you take a walk around your local elementary schools, I can almost guarantee that you will be able to find posters in the classrooms that list the four basic operations of add, subtract, multiply and divide accompanied by a list of “keywords” associated with each operation.  I...