by alex | Sep 19, 2022 | Parent Resources
It’s the first day of school. You bring your child with their brand-new backpack loaded down with fresh school supplies and deposit them into the care of a smiling, excited teacher – whom you have only met once or twice. You wonder how their day will go and hope they...
by alex | Jun 26, 2022 | Parent Resources
When learning a foreign language, one of the keys to becoming fluent is to speak it every day. In a way, math is its own language, and it’s not news that many students don’t retain their math skills during the summer hiatus from school. Keeping up with math skills...
by alex | Jan 14, 2020 | Parent Resources, Study Guide
When children first start learning about subtraction, they learn that it means to “take away”. They start with a given quantity and then “take out” or “take away” the amount being subtracted. Over time, they begin to subtract multi-digit numbers and learn various...
by alex | Jul 30, 2019 | Parent Resources
Many students and parents seem to really hate the Common Core. The new strategies can be confusing and unfamiliar, and what we see when parents come to us at BMT is often more struggle than learning. I dug a little deeper into the origins of the Common Core standards...
by alex | May 15, 2019 | About Tutoring, Parent Resources
As a rising senior at NYU, I can still vividly remember my SAT prep. It can be difficult to find the most effective test-prep resources and avoid ostensibly “helpful” ones that are actually just financial sinkholes. You may be asking yourself, should I attend a...
