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Math Intervention at Home
Gemm learning takes a two-step approach to math help:
- Remediate learning skill gaps holding back math progress
- K-8 math curriculum and math facts training
Or math intervention uses Fast ForWord software to boost cognitive and reading skills, which impact math, and DreamBox for a guided K-8 math curriculum.
Our program uses groundbreaking learning through exploration exercises — aligned to state and common core standards — to help children truly “get” math — number dexterity and math fact automaticity. This is the pathway to confidence in math.
Gemm Math is a standalone program or an add-on to a reading or learning protocol.
Why Gemm Math?
- For many children, every new math concept is a new mystery, and class instruction is not enough.
- Difficulty with math facts often gets in the way.
Many children limp from one math subject to the next, none mastered nor truly understood, each new topic a struggle. Following the teacher in class is not always easy. If your child does not know why a particular math method works, she has learned nothing to help with the next math topic.
There’s a better way.
Math Confidence Requires True Understanding
Gemm Learning is excited to be part of a significant new movement in math learning, offering:
- DreamBox, more here – numeracy and deep understanding, aligned to K-8 standards
- Reflex, more here – adaptive math fact mastery for grades 2+ (included free for all students)
Our coach-guided home math service uses programs that are enjoying extraordinary success in North American schools, serving nearly 3 million students.
These programs represent a revolution. They focus on numeracy and true math understanding, which not only boosts math scores and reduces frustration but also accelerates future math learning by building true understanding and confidence.
Cognitive Skill Building For Math
In the early years, up to the ages of 7 or 8, difficulty with math can be the first clear symptom of a deeper issue. Math is often the first true test of a child’s learning ability. It requires the ability to listen accurately and to think in an abstract way. It requires a range of cognitive skills that for many children are not fully developed.
In these cases, most children are better off doing our learning intervention, Fast ForWord, and leaving the math specific skills for later. Contact us to find out where your child fits.
If you decide on learning intervention, here’s how it will help reduce math frustration.
Cognitive skills can be learned. The brain is like a muscle — cognitive and other learning skills will improve with the appropriate exercise.
Fast ForWord builds the foundations to all learning, Learning MAPS – working Memory, Attention, Processing and Sequencing. Here’s how these skills apply to math:
- Working Memory — the ability to retain and manipulate numbers is the key to solving math equations.
- Attention — math is abstract and the logic involves multiple steps. Focus is essential.
- Processing – children need to think while listening, requiring efficient language processing skills.
- Sequencing — there is a step by step logic to understanding a lot of math concepts and a sequence of operations to solving most equations.