School is almost out and that means that Summer break is right around the corner. Breathe deep and relax. You can do it, just a couple more tests and you can relax from the normal school schedule. Freedom is a few weeks away.

Now while Summer often mean trips to museums, parks, beaches and other places Summer fun it also means Summer Brain Drain.

Summer Brain Drain is the learning lost during the summer months. During the 3 months of summer break, most students lose approximately 2 months of grade level equivalency with mathematics computation skills.

While some schools offer reading and practice math packets home, its fairly common that most kids run out of things to do. Very often many parents struggle to find enough activities for their children to do and keep them occupied.

While Summer Brain Drain can be a nasty it can be prevented. That lost knowledge can be preserved by practicing and sharpening your skills for an hour per day or even an hour every other day. That leaves you with over 160 hours to have fun, sleep, travel and destress from the chaos that comes with the school year.

Luckily Mathnasium of Palo Alto/Menlo Park keeps its doors open and the AC on during the summer months offering quality tutoring. Our program is perfect for keeping those freshly learned skills sharp and gives students the opportunity they need to take on that next year strong and easy.

So come on in this Summer to help prevent Summer brain drain and spend some time with Mathnasium of Palo Alto/ Menlo Park.

In Palo Alto and Menlo Park, many families decide to go abroad during summer vacation! Traveling during the summer opens students up to new cultures and experiences, so we highly recommend it! Since summer is coming up in just a couple months, here are a few math problems to get you looking forward to the summer!

1. A family of four buys plane tickets to London for the summer. If economy class tickets cost $1200 each, and business class tickets cost $2000, how much more expensive are business class tickets? (express as a percentage)

2. You’re in Japan for the summer! While at a restaurant in Tokyo, you mentally calculate the bill in your head (all that practice at Mathnasium is coming in useful!). You order 2 servings of shrimp sashimi ($3 each), 1 serving of unagi rolls ($5) and one bowl of udon soup ($6). If tax is 10%, how much does the meal cost?

3. You’re bored at the airport, waiting for your flight to Rio de Janeiro, and you’re planning activities to do on the plane. If the flight is around 11 hours, how many movies can you watch? Assume that each movie you watch is about 3 hours.

4. In Mumbai, the average temperature over the summer is 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Convert it to Celcius! To convert temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit to Celcius, subtract 32 and divide by 1.8.

We hope you enjoyed these math problems! Regardless of whether you travel or not this summer, we hope you spend lots of time with your friends and family!

For more fun ways to learn math, visit The Mathnasium of Palo Alto-Menlo Park!