Mathnasium Word Problem Wednesday: Summer Reading!

Greetings, problem solvers! This week's installment of Word Problem Wednesday is for all of you bibliophiles who savored every word on their summer reading lists this year. Give our word problem a try and check back tomorrow for the answer!

Yesterday, Max read half of a book. Today, he read a third of what was left. What fractional part of the whole book is left for Max to read?

Our answer will be updated in our blog tomorrow with extended explanation :-) ...

The summer reading list is tremendously important; with multiple purposes, one being to build language skills. We've been getting many inquiries about math lessons for very young learners as early as pre-kindergarten. We can teach young learners provided they can focus for 30-45 minutes and have a grasp of reading. Most importantly, they must be able to talk to us, because many math concepts up to grade 3 are fundamentally expressible in plain English terms without the concise notation of mathematics. What is half a cookie? When we get "A half!" as a response, our young learner has been drawn into the world of fractions! "What's two halves?" "A whole!" and our young learner is on her way!

So, we advice parents whose children are too young, to focus on language and reading; then when they are ready, Mathnasium can lead them into the world of numbers with no fuss.

Contact:
Ruby Yao and Benedict Zoe, Mathnasium of Fort Lee
201-969-6284 (WOW-MATH), fortlee@mathnasium.com
246 Main St. #A
Fort Lee, NJ 07024

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