By mid­dle and high school, stu­dents should be apply­ing the skills and cal­cu­la­tions that they’ve learned in math to think log­i­cal­ly and solve problems. 

Math education has two goals:

1. To cal­cu­late and work with numbers

2. To think and solve problems

Stu­dents in mid­dle school are div­ing deep into num­ber sense while devel­op­ing their brains to think about and solve prob­lems. Bridg­ing the gap from cal­cu­la­tions to prob­lem solv­ing is an essen­tial part of math­e­mat­ics edu­ca­tion. As mid­dle and high school stu­dents move beyond cal­cu­la­tions and into the world of dis­cov­ery, they need more than a video and text­book. They need some­one to lead the way, mod­el great think­ing, and teach them how to solve prob­lems. Math Mas­ters cours­es pro­vide the video lessons for a par­tic­u­lar text, but they also give your fam­i­ly a math guide: Some­one to field your ques­tions, encour­age your stu­dents, and guide your entire fam­i­ly toward math mastery.