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Is Your Future Middle Schooler Ready?

While we are all enjoying our summer vacation and the pace that this season of life affords us, the school year will pick back up sooner rather than later. With that our rising sixth graders are facing the greatest transition and challenge that they have faced to date. They are going to be moving ... Read More

6 Tips to Increase Your Accuracy in Math

Frequently at AJ Tutoring, students come in who express a familiarity with key math concepts but don’t score as well as they’d imagined on quizzes and tests. A common source of missed questions is inaccuracy. It can be frustrating because such errors happen even if you have mastered the ... Read More

 

Zines as Study Tools

I tend to fidget. I fiddle with my pens, bounce my knees, and doodle while listening. When I was in school, I resisted my fidgets as much as I could. In fact, the only times my fidgeting really got me into trouble was when I would get caught playing with beeswax under my desk or drawing in the ... Read More

 

The Four Stages of Competence: Math Edition

We all like to think of ourselves as active participants in our lives. We make decisions from sun-up to sun-down: when to wake up, what to eat for breakfast, what email to answer first, what podcast to listen to on the drive home. However, the uncomfortable truth is that our behavior is more ... Read More

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