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Dice may arguably be the most powerful mathematical manipulative in the world.  Their versatility is unmatched and I bet you’ve even got a few laying around your house.  Rolling dice can be used to teach and practice math skills in a variety of ways from preschool all the way through high school.  So what are […]

So you want to learn about idioms? You have finally bit the bullet and Googled it. Plus, your teacher assigned you a homework assignment on idioms, so you figured you’d kill two birds with one stone and learn what they actually are. Well, I’m here to let the cat out of the bag and teach you everything you […]

A prefix is a way to customize a word to fit your exact desired meaning. Americans, as a culture, love to customize as much of their life as possible. From coffee orders to subscription boxes, if we can tailor it to our exact needs, we will. While prefixes aren’t delicious, stylish, or ‘grammable, they will […]

Introduction Suffixes change a word to help it fit correctly into any sentence. By adding a set of letters at the end of a word, suffixes change words from singular to plural, present to past, and more. The English language, while filled with usage rules and confusing pronunciations, is built with many tricks to help […]

When you are writing, you must take steps to make sure that your writing flows and makes sense together as well as a sentence structure. One of these steps includes following the basic rules for subject-verb agreement. At its core, subject-verb agreement is precisely what it says it is: when your subject and verb agree. […]

This morning I rode my bike to work. When I got there, I bragged to my coworkers about how far I had ridden. Once they got outside and saw that I was riding on a unicycle, they wanted to hop on for a ride! Isn’t it wild how, when reading that sentence above, you can […]

Following the release of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s school reopening plan, requests from families for remote – only learning have increased by 40,000 in just one week. As of Friday, August 14th, over 300,000 NYC students will not return to their school buildings come September. The city’s current reopening model consists of a “weekly blended-approach,” […]

Almost every student returning to school after the summer break is at a disadvantage. They will be starting the new school year with a lower retained memory of the things they had learned in the previous grade. This results in lower achievement levels and is because of the two-month-long gap they went through in their […]