“When we do our daily lessons, my son does great. Everything seems to click. But when he sees the same topic later, in a review or on a test, it’s like he’s never heard of it before. How can I help him pull math up from the dregs of lost memory?”
This is a common problem, and there’s no easy answer.
You see, it’s easy for humans to convince ourselves we understand something when someone else explains it. It seems to make sense, but it doesn’t stick in our minds.
If you think of times when you’ve tried to learn something new, you can probably remember the feeling—you thought you had it, but then when you tried to do it yourself, your mind went blank.
So how can we help our kids when they can’t remember what to do?
