Monday, June 30, 2014

~ Jill Stowell, M.S. Stowell Learning Centers, Inc. Author, 'At Wits' End,, a parent's guide to ending the struggle, tears and turmoil of learning disabilities.

Chris La Deaux's math programs are beautifully done and completely on-target. We recently started with Add to Subtract and love the way the program helps students to get vivid mental pictures of how numbers fit together to create the math facts.

Add to Subtract is a fun and complete program for memorizing addition and subtraction facts and getting lots of well-sequenced practice with adding and subtracting. It provides a critical piece that many students struggle with in a format that can easily fit into traditional classrooms, tutoring centers and homeschool lessons. Well done.

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Saturday, June 7, 2014

~ Parent of Seventh Grader at Camerado Middle School, Cameron Park

The combination of your math classes and private tutoring has given my seventh grade son the confidence and skills to be successful in math. At times I wondered if he would be able to keep up with the math curriculum in school. I never realized how important it is to master the basic addition, subtraction and multiplication facts. I now know that having a solid foundation that starts with the math facts is critical to be able to understand long division, fractions, algebra and many concepts that students must learn. I wish that I knew about your math classes when my son needed help in second and third grades. It would have saved him a lot of frustration and feeling like he was not smart. I recommend your classes to anyone who has a child who is counting and struggling to learn the math facts. Your classes have given my son the confidence he needs to be successful in math and other areas in his life. Thank you for your help.

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Sunday, June 1, 2014

~ Parent of Second Grader at Silva Valley Elementary School

In learning it isn't where you start, it's where you finish that matters! We watched and encouraged our children to learn to walk and eventually run. At first they were unsteady and fell down. With our help they succeeded and today they run without effort. Your children are taking their first math steps. Learning math parallels learning to walk. We need to provide encouragement and tools to help them succeed. Ways That Work provides the helping hand they need to guide them to success! The program allows students to receive immediate feedback which fuels their motivation to learn. Stop watching your children stumble through math when they are capable of running! Give them all of the tools they need to steady themselves by participating in the the two-class addition and subtraction program.

Math is a journey. The more prepared you are for the journey, the more enjoyable the journey becomes. Ways That Work is the math preparation necessary for your child's academic journey. All preparation requires effort. This program provides tools for your children to make their math efforts successful. If you walk in a circle each day with hope of reaching the mountain summit, you will never reach the summit. Likewise, if you use ineffective methods to teach your children math, they will not achieve their true potential. Give your children the academic preparation to make their journey enjoyable. Allow them to be fully prepared by participating in both classes of the addition and subtraction program from Ways That Work. You wouldn't bring only half of what you needed on a journey! Remember, in learning, it isn't where you start, it's where you finish that matters! This is the key, finishing! So, stay on the journey and complete the addition and subtraction program.

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~ Parent of Second Grader at Green Valley Elementary School, Rescue

When my daughter started working with Chris, she hardly knew any of her addition and subtraction facts. She used her fingers to count to get the answers that she got right. After 7 months of working with Chris' system, she knew all of her adding, subtracting and multiplication facts. It was amazing. I never thought she could do it because of her developmental delays. It took a while before she understood the system, but we practiced every day at home. Once she understood the system, she quickly picked up the rest of the facts. The pictures helped her visualize the facts. Before long, she was almost at the top of her class with the math facts.

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#add/subtract
#multiplication
#homeschool
#parent