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Back-to-School Math Anxiety Starts Before School Does – Here's How to Spot It

Jul 13, 2026 | Westwood Blog

Mathnasium's education specialists help parents recognize the signs of back-to-school math anxiety during summer and act before the school year starts.

How to Challenge Your Advanced 3rd–5th Grader in Math This Summer

Jun 8, 2026 | Westwood Blog

Your child is already ahead in math. Here are summer enrichment projects that challenge advanced 3rd–5th graders to think deeper and grow further.

3 Proven Tactics to Prevent the Summer Slide in Math

Jun 8, 2026 | Westwood Blog

Summer learning loss hits math harder than any other subject. Here's what the research says actually works to keep skills sharp over the break.

Word Problem Wednesday: Practicing Math With Money

May 9, 2017 | Westwood Blog

  Money, Money! Today’s Word Problem Wednesday taps into our everyday math skills to help us to find something we want to buy, account for sales and coupons, and use those smarts to budget our money correctly to get that thing! Maggie&rs..

Word Problem Wednesday: A Very Unusual Spider!

Sep 28, 2016 | Westwood Blog

Image: By Adam Hammond [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons On this Word Problem Wednesday, the spotlight's on a cute little desert arachnid that's a little more roly-poly than creepy crawly! The golden wheel spider gets around in a ra..

Word Problem Wednesday: The Olympics!

Aug 17, 2016 | Westwood Blog

We're right in the thick of Olympics fever! As you root for your favorites, take a quick math minute to solve this week's installment of Word Problem Wednesday. We'll update with the answer tomorrow. It takes an Olympic canoe paddler ..

Word Problem Wednesday: A Birthday Surprise With a Bow!

Jul 27, 2016 | Westwood Blog

This installment of Word Problem Wednesday goes out to all of you attending fun birthday parties this summer! Solve our word problem below, and check back tomorrow for the answer. Sammy is wrapping a birthday gift and wants to find out how much r..

Meet the Newest (and Largest) Prime Number!

Jan 28, 2016 | Westwood Blog

We're rolling out the welcome mat to celebrate the newest prime number, which was discovered last week! What is a prime number, you ask? It's a whole number that has exactly two distinct factors, namely 1 and itself! As an example, 7, is..

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