The jump from elementary math to middle school math introduces ratios, proportional reasoning, and early geometry proofs that demand a different kind of thinking. Matthew tackles these topics with a visual, top-down approach — sketching out how a proportion works before drilling the cross-multiplica...

During her City Year service, Sharon worked full-time alongside middle schoolers performing in roughly the 10th percentile in math — and helped a quarter of them jump about 15 percentile points in one year. That experience taught her how to diagnose exactly where a student's understanding breaks dow...

From ratios and proportions to early linear equations, middle school math covers a huge range of ideas in a short time. Esther's approach is to slow down at the specific point where a student gets stuck — whether that's fraction operations or coordinate graphing — and rebuild confidence from there. ...

Fractions, ratios, and proportional reasoning are where middle school math starts demanding genuine number sense, not just memorized procedures. Johari makes these concepts stick by tying them to situations students can picture — scaling a recipe, splitting something unevenly, figuring out rates. Hi...

Fractions, ratios, and proportional reasoning trip up a lot of middle schoolers because the concepts feel abstract until someone connects them to something concrete. Eric takes everyday scenarios — splitting a recipe, comparing sports stats — and uses them to make operations with fractions and perce...

Ratios, proportions, and pre-algebraic thinking click faster when students can see them — and Mimi's background in visual and object-based learning means she naturally turns abstract middle school math concepts into something concrete. Her Harvard Ed.M. trained her to design lessons around how each ...

The jump from elementary math to middle school math introduces fractions, decimals, ratios, and proportional reasoning all at once — and Sarah knows how to keep that from feeling overwhelming. She teaches students to spot the underlying structure in word problems, which makes topics like percent cal...

Fractions, ratios, and pre-algebra concepts click faster when a student understands the reasoning behind each step — not just the procedure. Sherry's experience as a classroom aide and mentor to middle school girls means she knows how to break down topics like proportional relationships and integer ...

Growing up in a Montessori program through eighth grade shaped how Laura approaches middle school math: she treats concepts like proportional reasoning and integer operations as things to discover, not just memorize. That background, paired with her Princeton education and professional experience in...

A year as a course assistant in Harvard's math department — teaching introductory calculus to undergraduates — gave Richard an unusual vantage point on middle school math: he knows exactly which arithmetic and pre-algebraic habits (especially around fractions, negative numbers, and variable expressi...