Math Intensive Practice

As a Chinese immigrant, I initially agreed that Canada's education philosophy was better than China's exam-oriented education.

It was unnecessary for young children to learn middle school math in elementary school, because they are too young to understand it and can only memorize it by rote.

But gradually I realized that the North American education system is not perfect either.

As children grow older, their comprehension abilities may improve, but their curiosity about learning diminishes. Middle school students face more temptations from society and their peers, spending more time on entertainment and games, while losing interest in learning.

For decades, the math scores of our students have been declining with each graduating class. It's only after students grow up, leave school, and enter the workforce that they are disappointed to find themselves lacking sufficient mathematical knowledge and skills.

This often leads to people being taken advantage of and cheated financially:

  • Or spending more money on unnecessary things

  • Or accumulating various credit card debts and high-interest loans

  • Or getting fleeced in the stock market

I believe the biggest shortcoming of North American math education is the lack of sufficient practice.

Learning math is like learning to drive. You can't say you know you need to stop when there's an person in front of you, but you need time to think about which foot is the brake.

If you need time to think, then you can't be considered a skilled driver.

The same applies to math. If your child always says, "I can, but I don't have enough time," or "I can calculate, but I always make mistakes," then they haven't truly learned the new skills.

For more on the importance of practice, check out this video: How To Learn Any Skill So Fast It Feels Illegal

There is a huge gap between knowing how to do something and not knowing how to do it, and practice is the bridge to cross that gap.

Only through extensive practice can you become proficient and truly master new knowledge. What our education system lacks is the opportunity for students to practice extensively.

The exercises provided on this website are designed for parents to download and use to help their children practice. Each set of practices contains enough questions to fill both sides of a single sheet of paper.

The questions are randomly generated, so students will have new questions to practice every day.

The questions will use a variety of fonts commonly found on exams, allowing students to become familiar with them in advance.

The practice exercises on this website are currently available for free download. The questions are primarily numerical; if a question contains text, it will only be in English.

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