Making Math Real Institute
The Making Math Real Institute’s Mission:To prepare all educators, including parents and homeschool parents, tutors, learning specialists, and teachers to provide comprehensive, structured numeracy development to ensure students of all ages receive the highest quality math education they need and deserve.
Since 1996, Making Math Real provides comprehensive professional development courses for all parents and educators, for teaching our original and innovative simultaneous multisensory structured mathematics to ALL students, K-12. Making Math Real is a methodology – not a curriculum. The design and intent is to empower educators to be clinically prescriptive to serve all students’ processing needs, from special needs to gifted.
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Feb 2006
I'm looking for recommendations pro/con Making Math Real - from parents who took the courses in order to help their kids or from parents who hired others who were trained in the concepts. I can't send my kid to the summer math ''camp'' that they offer but I may be interested in taking the overview class myself. Was it helpful, is it worth the $? Thanks
mom of math hater
Making Math Real was developed for people who learn/see the world in a certain way: highly visual and highly contextual (learning needs to be in the context of a ''story,'' complete abstractions are not well-appreciated). If your son learns in this way, Making Math Real is worth anything you can possibly afford to pay. After many years of learning specialists using other techniques, it is the only method that has helped my daughter learn even the most basic math (it does include through algebra and geometry too). So if you do not already know how your son learns best, I would suggest testing to find out, and if this is a fit, go for it! If his learning style is otherwise, then you might need to explore a different method. Joan
March 2005
We have a third grader who is very hesitant about math. Her teacher says that she is ''at grade level,'' but math is hard for her, and she has already decided that she does not like it. Does anyone have any recommendations about summer math tutors or math programs that she might take advantage of? I know one friend took her daughter to a program called Making Math Fun, but I cannot find any information about it online. We live in Berkeley. Any and all suggestions welcome! Mother of a reader!
I think perhaps your friend went to Making Math Real - run by David Berg out of, I think, Cragmont in Berkeley. As a math teacher, Making Math Real offers a lot for kids who struggle with math. As a way of teaching to the general student, I am not so sure, but I can't make a judgement until I get more training and see it in action more. www.makingmathreal.org I'd say it is definitely worth a look, and very likely even a try. It also has classes for teachers (and parents) - offering ways in which you (or her teachers) could support her better - something that I think is very valuable. interested in math results
You might be thinking of Making Math Real. The website is: http://www.makingmathreal.org/ Ellen
Hi! They use it in certain places for dyslexic kids, such as Hope Academy in Concord, which also teaches the Slingerland approach to structured literacy for K-8 kids. From what I've been told, the owner of this company unexpectedly passed away, and with him, so did this methodology very, very unfortunately. Apparently, no other place is allowed to offer training, and this program and all its knowledge is kept and shared between people who have previously trained with him. Anyhow, there must be people who are trained in it, but if you are considering a specialized dyslexia school, at least there are options there.
Hi,
Perhaps you’ve found a teacher by now but just in case… my 10 year old daughter’s tutor teaches the Making Math Real program. She’s a kind and patient tutor and has helped my daughter build her skills and her confidence.? She teaches from her apartment near Berkeley high. I can check with her and see if she’s ok with me sharing her contact info, or I’m happy to pass yours on. Let me know.