Tutoring Topics
I write about educational development and I tutor students professionally. There are certain topics your child should know well before going into middle school math. Too many children do not know basic operations before they get to junior high or middle school. I have used the guides below to help provide an understanding of key topics. See also:
Multiplication
You can’t have too much practice
What is multiplication? Factors and Multiples and Fact Families
Multiplication is a fundamental skill that every child should learn to master.
Division
Long Division
Being able to do division by hand is an important skill to have
Division is the inverse of multiplication—it is also the basis of what you are doing with fractions.
Negative Numbers
Negative Numbers
Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with negative numbers
You will often have to simplify expressions in math that have negative numbers as a part of them, so leaning about the basics is important.
Order of Operations
Order of Operations
What should you do when you have multiple operations to perform in one problem?
If we didn’t have an order to do certain problems in, we would come up with very different answers, for the same problems.
Fractions: Basic Operations
Everything you can do with regular numbers, you can do with fractions
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
The basics: adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions.
Simplifying Fractions
You can often write fractions in a simpler form
Finding Greatest Common Factors
Why do we need to find the Greatest Common Factor in some problems?
Mixed Numbers & Improper Fractions
Mixed Numbers & Improper Fractions
How do we convert them and what are they?
How do you convert a mixed number to an improper fraction and vice versa?
Exponents
Exponents represent the number times a number is multiplied by itself
Review rules for exponents
What are exponents and how should we use them?