Archive for October, 2009

Steve Interviewed on Prime Time America

written by
ethan
at October 21, 2009

Steve was recently interviewed by Paul Butler on Moody Radio’s “Prime Time America”

You can listen to Steve’s segment “kids and math” on Paul Butler’s blog.

Despite years of federally funded education initiatives, a recent study by the NAEP reports that our children are still performing poorly in basic mathematics.

Steve Demme is the Founder, President and Author of Math U See. He helps us understand why our kids are struggling and what we can do about it.

In this feature, Mr. Demme mentions the first step in helping our children improve in math is to ascertain what they already know. The Math U See website has a number of competency exams available. Information is available here.

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Math-U-See Student Wins Google SketchUp Contest

written by
ethan
at October 13, 2009

We recently received this email from proud parent and wanted to share it with you.

Dear Steve, one of your students - Matthew Notaro - won the 2009 Google SketchUp Kid’s Digital Design Contest and was honored by the Howe brothers - Popular Science’s 2009 Inventors/Invention of the year.

Your Math program was a direct result to his success.

In 7th grade he got so bogged down by Saxon Math’s overkill review and drill he spent over 2 hours a day per lesson and slid farther and farther behind. We finally listened to some friends and ordered your intro DVD. Math U See’s program fit our family perfectly. We happily “re-taught” Fractions and PreAlgebra.

Because your program teaches math skills in a logical, natural progression without the fluff and overkill drill - he finished Algebra Honors in one semester freeing up valuable time. With that time he toured Howe and Howe Technologies, interviewed with the Howe brothers, spent 160 hours using a CAD program - building the skills needed to win the Google SketchUp competition.

Math U See is directly assisting Matthew in pursuing his dream of becoming a mechanical engineer. God is using Math U See as a ministry for His Kingdom purposes. Thank you for being here.

The Notaro Family Homeschool

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Congratulations Matthew!

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I Love U

written by
ethan
at October 1, 2009

A happy mom sent me this the other day and I just had to share it.

This is Cole. He is my 11 year old (6th grade) son. For 4 years we have stressed, cried, and begged the school to help figure out what was going on with him. They kept saying ADHD (surprise!) But after being tested twice he still wasn’t diagnosed ADHA. I started pushing for him to be tested for dyslexia. But, Ky doesn’t do that. I finally had him tested myself and guess what? Momma was right! But KY doesn’t recognize dyslexia as a LD so rather than fight the system I pulled Cole out and began homeschooling. He is a totally different child! He is not angry all the time and I enjoy our time together! When the MUS block came in the mail Cole wanted to play with them but I didn’t have time to work with him (sick baby) After a few minuets he called me into the kitchen and this is what he had made. I nearly cried!

Since he has started with the MUS program. We started with Beta and he is doing 2-3 lessons a day. I hope to have him back on grade level before long.

Thanks for making math so easy!
Jini and Cole

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