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Educational Summer? Yes, please!

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As an educator the end of the school year can be a thrilling and sad moment.   As I look at the students I have had the honor to spend the school year with I am saddened by how much knowledge they will lose over the summer break.   They have made so much progress this year! As a teacher I know the beginning of the year is going to be rough.   The beginning of the year will be filled with reteaching about 2.5 months’ worth of mathematics curriculum.   While I am working with students at Mathnasium I am encouraging them to continue in the summer.   Even if they are excelling in mathematics there is still mathematical concepts that will be lost over the summer months.      Learning is a yearlong process.   In the summer many students gain more life and real world knowledge then conceptual knowledge.   These experiences are great!   How can students be able to gain both; life and conceptual knowledge over the summer and why are mathematical concepts being lost when math is everywh