Math Magic Toronto – Improve AutoMagically – Tutoring

Deanna Jarvis, 18, with help from father Sam, works on math problems the University of Guelph sent this summer to thousands of first-year students.

Louise Brown

Education Reporter

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I’ve been tutoring high school mathematics for over fifteen years privately and I had never seen more blank and confused faces until after the curriculum change. The new text books are garbage with more colour than necessary, enough to distract any ADD-susceptible teen, fewer problems to practice on and almost zero progression from easy to difficult problems. My business has sky rocketed. The text book companies are so entrenched in knowing what is “right” or “better” and being run by people who can’t do the problems in their own books doesn’t help anyone see what is really going on.”

So many Ontario teens are bombing university math now that there is no Grade 13, universities are scrambling to boost students’ skills before they arrive. Continue reading →

Yes, this is a word with a long history. As the word suggests, “automagically” is (according to Wikipedia) a blend of the automatic and the magical. Dictionary.com notes that:

“This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word `automagic’ occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.”

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Remedial High School Math Tutor(s) and Tutoring (Downtown Toronto)

Are you having trouble with high school math? It’s quite possible that you have “great potential” but are lacking some basic background skills. This lack of skills can manifest itself in the following ways:

- you can’t progress, because you are missing a step
- you feel as though you have “one hand tied behind your back” as you try to move forward in learning new math topics
- your teacher seems to assume that you are competent in certain skills, but you are not.

Math should not be treated like any high school subject. It is an important tool for learning other subjects: science, finance, etc. Continue reading →