AMAZING “MATH MAGIC TUTOR” CHANGED MY DAUGHTER’S STORY

AmazingTalker has directly changed my daughter’s life and her feelings towards math. It began two years ago when I first met Mr. Dayo Peter through AmazingTalker. Then I was a 42-year-old, mother of three kids, my oldest kid who was schooling from home during the covid-19 was finding a different set of problems than I anticipated. Flora had been struggling with something–grades were fine, tests were exemplary, but she was withdrawing from everything around her; so my husband and I decided to enroll her in a non-classroom charter school, making me her 6th grade teacher. The year began with me learning right alongside Flora. Among other things, I discovered she HATED “MATH” and felt she was stupid—two strong opinions she’d formed on her own, over time, that were deeply rooted in her thinking.

We knew she was not stupid. There had been many indicators of significant intelligence, but I was amazed at Flora’s continued inability to hold on to math facts of any kind; and when she was particularly upset, to truly not know the value of nine timestable! Desperately we searched and found a memory system called “Remember the Times Tables,” that was picture and story based. It seemed to be working but the teachers at her school had never heard of it and thought I should discuss Flora’s situation with Teacher Dayo Peter, at online professional tutor the platform had hired that year to teach my daughter on making math real.

Flora learned access to the multiplication facts; she learned long division, correct renaming procedures and access to subtraction facts through “bump and fact.” We began working on fractions, “real deals” and “spies in disguise.” She learned that Mr. Dayo’s words, “Math helps you solve problems practically” and this was crucial to the success of what she was doing. I was swimming in an ocean of joy when after each class she was trying all these new approaches, and demonstrating the number one rule othe the vision that must each get the same amount. Occasionally, if she felt like getting discouraged I would ask her, “remember Teacher Dayo’s words”, she would say immediately “ok, mom”.

She began taking math lessons 4 TIMES A WEEK through the last year summer. In August 2022 she learned place value for the first time and marveled that it gets larger from right to left while the number line goes in the opposite direction. I knew that she was changing in this process. The year passed smoothly enough. Flora began to re-enter her life. Swimming was successful. She was playing piano and spending time with friends again. She loved reading and worked on her math, willingly enough. She learned enough notes and information to solve long division through level 8, to master fractions and work on decimals, to solve conversions and to keep chipping away at that somewhat foggy notion of place value. At the start of 7th grade, however, she stumbled on to integers and stopped dead in the tracks.

The journey began again with Teacher Dayo helping her with learning integers. It’s the change in the brain. It’s access to that other part that we all don’t use as often. Flora is a better student because she has had access to a part of her brain that would have languished until she was much older, languished while she determined she was not smart enough and while she was distracted by apathy. And it is in coming to the beginning of making Math Real, after years of being in the middle, that she is aware of the complete change in her life. Math isn’t just a subject that must be “stayed on top of” because a student needs to be on a “good track” in junior high or high school. It’s not college SAT’s that should have us wringing our hands over the notion of math competency.

Good math development is as crucial to learning as reading. Everyone should have access to the math coding as everyone does to the reading. If all students could experience the wonder of numbers, the solid assurance of working with rules and codes that don’t change, and the self esteem that comes with knowing the right answer to a multi-stepped problem, then our abilities to learn, in general, would skyrocket.

AmazingTalker learning platform is not just for those who are struggling with math, or it shouldn’t be. Those who are exceptional in math need the same (or perhaps more) of an understanding of the development of math in order to help them really learn. And I believe the “really learn” part encompasses much more than mathematics. Whether it is giving access to number concepts to those “global, big picture, don’t-bother-me-with-the-detail” learners, or whether it is giving a larger, broader understanding to those who are oh-so quick with the details that they miss the meaning, it is important. I believe it is vital.

Math may just be a part of life that one must hurdle to get on with whatever true talent lies within; then it should enhance learning and not put a choke-hold on all a person’s extra time. It should build up self-esteem so one can put his best face forward toward the challenge of his dreams. Or math may be someone’s true talent and should have every opportunity to put down deep roots and thrive in a rich conceptual environment. Learning how to “do” math without learning why and without seeing and feeling the experience gives math only a fraction of its potential appeal. The friends of my now-4th-grade son who loved math in 3rd grade are now throwing their books against the wall. They feel betrayed by a subject that once gave them firm footing in the slippery slope of education among one’s peers. And, in a sense, they’re right. They don’t know as much as they think they do, or should. Whereas good, conceptual understanding would have these same (very) young men and women excited about math and primed for strong learning overall.

Good math development is vital. I have found an amazing Math Magic Tutor on AmazingTalker, both in giving my daughter fabulous development in learning and in making her grow interest in math. He is the BEST MATH TUTOR FOR STARTERS AND INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS. The Math Magic Tutor, Mr. Dayo Peter.🤗