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Is math scary? - we don't think so. From past experience, we have found that math is the easiest subject to teach. Of course, that's only if you know how to teach it. The secret is simple: you should not memorize math, you should understand math.

Later we will explain more about the tremendous benefits teaching through understanding gives to you, but we would like to start with a startling fact: practically throughout the whole USA you will hardly find any schools that teach math properly.

The key to math tutoring is proper teaching. You need to understand why so many students are coming to VIP tutor for help: practically everywhere math is not delivered right. To understand what is right and wrong in math teaching, you need to understand what math is and what it is not. Let's start first with what it is not: math is not a bunch of rules and formulas which we need to memorize or variable manipulations which are needed to please the teacher. In reality — math is just one side of the everyday world around us. Everything around us has two properties: quality (color, appearance, flexibility etc) and quantity (size, weight, height, amount etc). Math helps us to understand the quantitative side of our world. Now it is easy to understand what can make math hard or easy. Math delivered as a disconnected bunch or rules taken from the thin air is boring, useless, and incomprehensible, unless you are a geek. However, there are a very few underlying facts, which are completely natural for everyone that after been pointed out, make the rest of math, including trigonometry and calculus, a piece of cake! That is what people call understanding of math.

Why is understanding mathematics so important? What you understand you remember for the rest of your life, what you memorize you forget in a week.

Every aspect of teaching for understanding is different. Let us outline the key factors first: it is much easier and faster to learn math through understanding. Second, you will know math much, much better: you will be able to solve problems which otherwise you will not even know how to start. And finally, we found that students enjoy this type of learning while they typically hate traditional "memorizational" math.

Why doesn't everyone teacg understanding if it is so powerful? There are two problems: while it is easier to learn math through understanding it is much harder to teach this way. And there is a second hurdle: to teach for understanding the teacher needs to understand in the first hand. But often she was herself taught memorizational math.

Now we come back to a fundamental fact: many students do not know that they do not know math. They think that if they got an A on a test they know math. They may simply know what they need to do to get a good grade, but not understand what they're doing. Does it mean that nobody understands math? Of course not. There are many people who, while been street smart, made necessary connections on their own. In fact there are some people who can not remember things if they do not understand. Unfortunately, we saw many cases when very bright and mathematically gifted children fail in math because whey did not get necessary explanations from their teachers and without understanding they feel powerless.

There is a solution: call VIP tutor and we will provide you with a tutor who can help you understand math. As the result you can be one of the best math students in your class.

Our guarantee: our educational specialists will thoroughly diagnose the student's condition and will work out a realistic plan which can be adopted by both the tutor and the student. We will start working on the plan right after it's accepted. Check our services section or just simply call 1-800-230-0084 to get started.

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