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Math guides for parents.
Plain answers to what parents ask, built from the same maps Knomi teaches from.
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Math gapsHow to Tell If Your Child Has a Math Gap (Not Just a Bad Week)A math gap is an earlier skill that never got solid. Here are the signs, a ten-minute check you can do at the kitchen table, and how to find the exact skill.Catching upHow to Help Your Child Catch Up in Math: Start One Step Below Where It BreaksCatching up in math is not redoing a whole year. Find the one skill under the struggle, fix it in short sessions, then come straight back up. A four-week plan.FractionsWhy Are Fractions So Hard? The Earlier Skills Fractions Depend OnFractions feel hard because they stack on earlier skills: multiplication facts, equal parts, equivalent fractions. Here is the chain, and how to find where it breaks.Getting ready for algebraWhat to Learn Before Algebra 1: The Skills It Is Built OnAlgebra 1 is built on a handful of 6th to 8th grade skills: negative numbers, expressions, equations, exponents and slope. A checklist, traced through real prerequisites.AI and mathCan AI Math Tutors Get Math Wrong? How to Choose One You Can TrustChatbots predict words, so they can get math wrong. What to ask before your kid uses an AI math tutor: who checks the answers, and who wrote the lessons.
What each grade learns in math
Grade 3What does a 3rd grader learn in math?25 topics in 7 units, from Multiplication to Time, Measurement and Data.Grade 4What does a 4th grader learn in math?25 topics in 7 units, from Big Numbers to Measurement and Problem Solving.Grade 5What does a 5th grader learn in math?24 topics in 6 units, from Place Value and Whole Numbers to Coordinate Plane and Patterns.Grade 6What does a 6th grader learn in math?27 topics in 6 units, from The Number System to Statistics.Grade 7What does a 7th grader learn in math?28 topics in 6 units, from Proportional Relationships to Probability and Statistics.Grade 8What does a 8th grader learn in math?27 topics in 8 units, from Roots and Exponents to Data and Scatter Plots.Grade 9What does a 9th grader learn in math?31 topics in 7 units, from Expressions and Equations to Descriptive Statistics.Grade 10What does a 10th grader learn in math?34 topics in 6 units, from Congruence and Proof to Probability.Grade 11What does a 11th grader learn in math?30 topics in 6 units, from Polynomials to Inferences from Data.Grade 12What does a 12th grader learn in math?27 topics in 8 units, from Functions to Toward Calculus.