Students should develop the ability to identify what they do not understand and seek help. Summerbridge teachers may tell students where their weaknesses lie, but the students must learn to take the initiative in their own schools. Students should learn to evaluate their own work. Encourage math students to work together. Math has traditionally been taught as an individually learned discipline.
Students can learn and teach each other.
Foster collaboration, cooperation, and communication in your classroom. Students should understand the connections between mathematical concepts and real world problems. You can help students do this by giving them a project instead of a list of math homework problems that exist in a vacuum. Have them go to a supermarket and total prices, bring in checkbooks, newspaper articles, graphs. Have them conduct surveys of other Summerbridgers, or create Math art to decorate hallways.