Greetings from your Middle School Math Team!

4/17/2025

Our year has passed quickly, and it’s amazing that we are already in April. It has been a wonderful year of working with our middle school students to challenge themselves in math. Like most subjects, students are most successful when school and home are working together as a team. When we are working as a team, one of the most important questions we get from parents is, “How can I help with math at home?” Here is a list of ways you can be a team player.

Positive Mindset
1. It’s important for students to realize that EVERYONE can be a “math person.” People often refer to themselves as a math person, or not a math person. Let your child know that with focused practice, everyone can achieve success in math and be a “math person”!
Organization
1. Parents have access to our class websites in the same manner that students have access. So, use that to help your student keep up with all of their assessments and homework. Accountability is important!
Scheduling
1. Schedule time at home for math homework. Students don’t need to work on math every night, but a routine schedule will help ensure that students don’t go multiple nights without practice.
Encourage Practice
1. While no one wants students to feel like they have to do math for hours every night after being in school all day, an appropriate amount of repetition is helpful for retention of math concepts. A great tool that we use for this purpose is Get More Math. Encourage your child to get their points every week.
Communicate
1. Talk to your child about math. Whether it’s during activities that you are participating in as a family or you just want to ask them how they feel about the current topic or unit of study. Giving students a chance to express the positives and negatives about math helps us all see where we need to celebrate or provide help.

Only a few more weeks and we will reach the finish line. Thank you for your support, and let’s continue to work as a team to help your children reach their potential in math!

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