Math for Life is the set of basic high school math skills that are essential to navigating today’s world, as well as understanding and improving your long-term financial well being. Being comfortable with these skills is as important as basic literacy. At an initial level, you need to master the particular course subject; but along the way you are learning the ability to:

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

(Skills list from The New York State P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for Mathematics.) These critical life skills are what the SAT math and ACT math/science sections are really testing.

Through tutoring, mentoring and homework help for all levels of high school and pre-high school math, we can boost your confidence and comfort with the skills needed for success.

In partnership with the Ossining Public Library, free math tutoring / homework help is available weekly on a group / drop-in basis while school is in session. Search for "Math tutoring" in the library's calendar.

Online and/or private tutoring is available by appointment. Please contact us to arrange a free, no-obligation initial conference to determine the program that will best fit your needs.

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• Have clear goals. Whether it is just being able to complete a homework assignment or to preparing for an ACT, SAT or regents test, it is important to have a clear picture of what you want to achieve. Read more about setting goals and planning.
  
  Contact us for a free, no-obligation conference to help you refine your goals.
  
  
• Practice. Like any other skill, math takes practice -- work the problems, preferably every day. Math is cumulative - every step depends on the steps before - and repetition is the key to learning. This is especially important for standardized tests, where doing more problems beforehand will give you greater confidence and make it more likely that you'll have seen, and know how to solve, something similar to what's on the test.
  
  
• Ask questions. If you don't understand something, ask a friend, teacher, mentor or tutor. Most of the time, there is more than one way to approach a problem, and one of those alternatives may make more sense to you.