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		<title>Avoid “Summer Slide”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a big push nationally to rethink how children spend their summer vacations.   The effort to keep kids learning during summer is based on an effort to avoid the summer slide:
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•    Teachers spend four to six weeks in the fall re-teaching forgotten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counting with Fingers &#8211; Is it Bad?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it bad to rely on your fingers to count ?  Here’s the short answer: counting on your fingers is helpful for a 4 year old child, but spells trouble for a child in the last few years of elementary school.  Here's why.]]></description>
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		<title>Math Worksheets &#8211; Ineffective ways to use them</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you use math workbooks or worksheets to supplement your child's math learning at home?  Math worksheets are essential to develop math skills - IF employed effectively.  Here are 5 mistakes parents tend to make about math worksheets.]]></description>
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		<title>Addition Facts: 99 + 99 + 99</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What?!  99 + 99 + 99 is not in your addition facts?   How would you compute that?
Math Addition facts are great to pick up speed on adding numbers.  At our Math Learning Center, we love to challenge kids just one step further.  The video below showed how our Chief Instructional [...]]]></description>
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