With Wuhan Coronavirus spreading in New York City, parents, Parent Teacher Associations, and schools seem to be inevitably headed for extended shutdowns and quarantines. The Department of Education is crossing its fingers, wiping down all surfaces, and hoping to avert the worst without closing schools, but parents are going to need contingency plans.
Do Soylentils have recommendations for online resources that members of NYC's school boards can share with the parent community to help kids keep up with their school work? Khan Academy is an excellent resource for math & science; it doesn't span every subject but something like it that grade school kids can understand would be ideal.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Saturday March 14 2020, @01:05PM
The difficulty with mathematics is that it is a huge tower of concepts. Mathematics is built on mathematics.
If your learning has missed a brick on the way up, everything above it is incomprehensible.
When I tutor, I start with asking questions from the advanced to the elementary -- something like a binary search in the student's knowledge base.
After that it's often easy to teach the missing brick and the rest can fall into place.
But if the student has learned to fear mathematics, the binary search will fail in a flood of tears.