But Bezaire teaches math. The novel is ... and different. Don't grade anything. Let it be fun and non-stressful. Don't talk too much. Have all kids come with two to four discussion points to share at ...

Michael Petrie is used to starting at the beginning of the chapters in his fifth-grade math book. So when tutor Ed Burchenal skipped forward to the chapter review, Michael was a little confused.

Combinatorics is a fancy word for counting. Doing really big problems by the partial products method gets really cumbersome and no one actually does it. Don’t try to do this chapter if you don ...