Education & Learning

Why identifying what cannot be determined is sometimes the most important part of solving a problem. By Tymur Levitin | Levitin Language School A student reads a mathematics problem: A rectangle has a perimeter of 40 centimetres. What is its area? The student remembers the formula for the perimeter: [P=2(a+b)] Then the formula for the […]

By Tymur Levitin | Levitin Language School A student solves a mathematics problem and gets the correct answer. The teacher takes off marks. Another student explains a biological process accurately. The response is still incomplete. A third student writes a well-informed history essay, includes relevant dates, and presents several arguments. Yet the examiner’s feedback says: […]

A student can define inflation. Explain supply and demand. Remember what GDP means. Describe opportunity cost. Draw a graph. Repeat the difference between fiscal and monetary policy. And still struggle with a simple question: What will actually happen if something changes? This is one of the central difficulties of learning economics. Economics contains terminology, formulas, […]

Why is history so difficult to study if most of the information is already written in the textbook? There are dates. Names. Wars. Treaties. Revolutions. Kings. Presidents. Borders. Political movements. Students read them, highlight them, memorize them — and then forget half of them. The obvious conclusion is: History requires a good memory. Memory certainly […]

Your child is struggling at school. Homework takes too long. Test results are getting worse. The same mistakes keep appearing. Perhaps the teacher says: They need more practice. Or perhaps the obvious conclusion is: We need a tutor. Sometimes that is exactly right. But there is a problem. “Needs more practice” is not a diagnosis. […]