Description Prologue. If Only Someone Could Handle Math For Us Chapter 0. Elementary Math — The Study Method Is Wrong! Why do children give up on math? Why are parents obsessed with problem-solving drills? Why do schools and academies only have kids practice pattern-based problems? Flawed math education is what turns kids into math dropouts. The never-before-properly-explained way to become good at math. How to truly chew on and digest math concepts. Elementary math foundational concept test. Chapter 1. How to Properly Digest 1st Grade Math Concepts Math interpretation for 1st graders. Teacher Cho's textbook analysis. Counting numbers. Place order, more important than place value. Mental math ability. Comparing numbers using "less than" and "greater than." Creating equations. TIP: Math concepts kids often get wrong. COLUMN: Kids who count on their fingers. Chapter 2. How to Properly Digest 2nd Grade Math Concepts Math interpretation for 2nd graders. Teacher Cho's textbook analysis. Multiplication tables. Expanding addition and subtraction to build number sense. Creating addition and subtraction equations from word problems. The relationship between sum and difference. The first step toward probability. TIP: Math concepts kids often get wrong. COLUMN: Should the properties of equality really be taught in 2nd grade? Chapter 3. How to Properly Digest 3rd Grade Math Concepts Math interpretation for 3rd graders. Teacher Cho's textbook analysis. Speed. Two-digit by one-digit multiplication. Division, the biggest focus in the math textbook. Distinguishing multiplication and division equations in word problems. Number sense still to be developed in 3rd grade. Definitions of shapes. The beginning of fractions. COLUMN: Kids who feel helpless about math. Chapter 4. How to Properly Digest 4th Grade Math Concepts Math interpretation for 4th graders. Teacher Cho's textbook analysis. Even larger numbers corresponding to big numbers. Decimals for number sense. Addition and multiplication. Exponents that prevent confusion. 4th grade logical thinking problems. Triangular numbers you shouldn't miss. Patterns leading to functions in middle and high school. Triangles, the most important shape. Mixed calculations. COLUMN: Why is multiplication and division with large numbers so difficult? COLUMN: How to solve word problems. Chapter 5. How to Properly Digest 5th Grade Math Concepts Math interpretation for 5th graders. Teacher Cho's textbook analysis. Multiples and factors. Greatest common factor and least common multiple. Reducing fractions, the foundation of fraction operations. Finding common denominators, essential for fraction addition and subtraction. Seven types of fractions and decimals. Multiplying fractions. Dividing fractions. Thinking about fractions within a range of numbers. Shapes — finding the area of all shapes using triangles. Shapes in symmetrical positions. TIP: Math concepts kids often get wrong. Chapter 6. How to Properly Digest 6th Grade Math Concepts Math interpretation for 6th graders. Teacher Cho's textbook analysis. The four operations with fractions. Division of decimals. Ratio and rate. The great property of fractions that helps understand the nature of ratios. Proportional distribution. Solid shapes. The purpose of equations — practicing the properties of equality. The completion of elementary math — word problems with fractions. Epilogue. The Conclusion Is Reading Math Through Concepts Publisher's Review Math feels difficult because the study method is wrong! The never-before-properly-explained way to become good at math. Eighty percent of children give up on math in elementary or middle school. Of the remaining twenty percent, half fail to reach the top tier in the math section and become discouraged, eventually joining the ranks of those who give up on math later on. As a result, nearly ninety percent of children give up on math at some point during their twelve years of schooling. If a lack of intelligence were the reason kids struggle with math, that would mean ninety percent of children are simply not smart — which doesn't make sense. In reality, the current state of math education means that even ordinary kids, and even excellent kids who put in tremendous effort, end up giving up on math. Year after year, families pour enormous amounts of money and time into endless problem sets, academy hopping, and memorizing problem patterns — only to see math scores get cut in half. This has been repeating for decades in math education, yet no one has properly explained how to truly become good at math. Instead, people who have never even taught elementary math speak with false authority, or claim expertise simply because they work in an environment involving children — and much of what they say is simply wrong. They underestimate elementary math and pollute the little reliable information that remains with unverified claims. The biggest reason children give up on math is that they're learning it the wrong way. A truly skilled math student's ability comes from understanding concepts! A learning method that can turn even a child who struggles with math into a top 0.1% math prodigy. Most children never actually learn the concepts—