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UnderstandMath4Life.com

website for middle school mathematics and beyond
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Welcome!
This website was developed for middle school math students based on the idea that math is for life. The skills that you develop in math, will serve you for the rest of your life - skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, spatial reasoning, logic and communication.

My teaching philosophy is to help you understand the math that you will use in your life along with helping you learn it in a way that if you happen to forget a detail, you will be able to recreate it. This website helps you with those details.

 
 

Families often ask questions like...

 

How can I help my child with math?
 
How can I help my child with Geometry?
 
Which should come first?  Rules or Understanding
 
The Families Ask articles are courtesy of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
 

 

Math is the language of the world.

 

 

 

Visit FreeRice.com to help feed the world's hungry a few grains of rice at a time!

  

 

 

You may be wondering...
 
Why is my child working in cooperative groups?
How can games in math help my child?

How can I help my child figure out if an answer is reasonable?
 
How can you show your work or strategy? 
  
 IMPORTANT NOTE:A few educational math video-podcasts have been added to this website. A great effort has been made to embeded these educational videos so that you will connect to the video source (YouTube.com) without being confronted with any other content. Students are reminded that parental supervision/permission must be obtained for the use of the Internet.