The Amazing 7-Day, Super-Simple, Scripted Guide to Teaching or Learning Percents

Welcome to The Amazing 7-Day, Super-Simple, Scripted Guide to Teaching or Learning Percents. I have attempted to do just what the title says: make learning percents super simple. I have also attempted to make it fun and even ear-catching. The reason for this is not that I am a frustrated stand-up comic, but because in my fourteen years of teaching the subject, I have come to realize that my jokes, even the bad ones, have a crazy way of sticking in my students' heads. And should I use a joke (even a bad one) repetitively, the associations become embedded in their brains, many times to their chagrin!

What is so different about this book? First of all, it is scripted, so that tutors, parents and teachers alike can deliver the lessons easily and without frustration. Secondly, the scripts and lessons have been carefully crafted to be ageless -- that is, to apply to any learner, based on age or level of mathematical mastery. Finally, the lessons have been carefully culled and edited over a decade in order to include the most necessary information in a finite and reasonable timetable, something (in this educator's opinion) other books seem to lack.

Lisa Hernandez (M.S. Ed.) began as an AmeriCorps volunteer, teaching in remedial education sixteen years ago in Wilmington, DE. For the past five years, she has been sharing her particular brand of study skills at the high school level with students in the City of Philadelphia. She lives with her one child and two cats, and also writes of her experiences regarding the inherent value of the arts in education. She is very active in local educational theater and was the recipient of the 2006 Public Allies Change Maker Award for a decade of work with students in this area.