We understand how difficult it can be for intelligent children to receive low grades, especially if there is a drastic drop in grades from one year to the next. Often, naturally intelligent children find that they breeze through elementary school with little or no effort. Being naturally good at school becomes their "thing" and their sense of identity becomes closely linked with their school performance. But, this natural intellegence can work against them if, as a result, they never really learn how to study, keep organized, and manage their time. As school gets progressively more difficult and demanding, these students can find themselves with no study tricks or organizational structure on which to depend. It can really seem as if they no longer have a clue how to function in school, to the shock of students, parents and teachers who have come to expect natural wonders from these children.

Mostly Math knows how to gently work with students who are working below their potential and bring out that natural talent that is simply hidden behind a lack of coping strategies.

Whereas school examinations evaluate student performance on material that has been taught in class, math contests usually evaluate a student's knowledge of what hasn't been taught! Contests provide extra challenges that allow children to work to a much higher potential, and success in this area is cultivated by exposing children to higher level problem solving, logic and creative exercises. Simply knowing material, which is usually easy for these students, isn't enough. Many high achievers have little difficulty in school, but students who perform well on these contests need to know how to struggle and search for answers. They need skills and strategies that they can use when they find themselves looking at a contest problem and have absolutely no idea what to do! Problem solving is a process, and it's not uncommon for good problem solvers to be more resourceful than knowledgeable. Since there is so much material that is fair game for math contests, tutors must understand how to use specific questions not as lessons in content, but as opportunities to extract general strategies for solving any problem that the student might face.

Distance learners aren't mind readers, but sometimes they'd have to be to make sense out of the information they're given to learn from or the instructions they're required to follow! We can help independent learners make sense of their studies, and give them the human, face-to-face contact they need to stay motivated and positive throughout the process.

Learners who have taken a break from school, for whatever reason, have extra challenges and concerns when jumping back into the education system. Memory gaps plague the learning process, and often work pressures and schedules plague the learning timetable. As adults, we often have the luxury of simply avoiding activities that we don't like or aren't good at. But, when going back to school, an adult can find themselves needing to once again tackle algebra and trigonometry.

Mostly Math offers individualized sessions in private rooms. Our centre is appropriate for learners of all ages and our adult students enjoy casual, relaxed, comfortable settings.

Highly gifted children may need help achieving a healthy balance of being comfortable with who they are, fitting into society and developing their natural talents. It is also important to have a tutor who understands that highly gifted students may be several different "ages" all at the same time -- a tutor working with a highly gifted child must be prepared to discussed theoretical physics one moment, and then deal with a chronologically-age-appropriate temper tantrum the next!

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