Summary

Your child’s math intelligence is far from fixed — it’s fluid! In one study, when students worked on a new skill for just a few minutes a day during a six-week training course, it completely changed the structure of their brains.[2] In other words, your child’s brain can grow and change at any time and, with a little extra work, they could make remarkable gains over the course of a semester. The brain is like a muscle. When you learn, synapses fire. And the more you work that muscle, the better it gets. This rule applies to math: the harder your child thinks and the more they struggle with an idea, the bigger their brain grows. 

So, if your kid has the ability to learn math, why aren’t they succeeding? 

Struggling in math is not an issue of intelligence, but an issue of mindset, habit setting, and learning strategies.