Jones Geniuses Learning Program
While doing this learning program, first lesson of each week should be a preview. Preview all five video lessons and study the corresponding five lessons in the text. Accelerated learning frontloads the information then activates it in detail in the following lessons. Your child doesn't need to master all the information during the preview but should try to grasp as much as they can and familiarize themselves with the concepts and techniques. If you're taking a Jones Geniuses course online this preview will be done in class.There are exercises that go with each lesson. Do a few of each type of problem to help your child grasp the objectives of the lesson. The familiarity gained will serve well as they get into the detail of the lessons in following days. During the rest of the week your child reviews each lesson and completes the activities prescribed until the skills are mastered. The last lesson of each weekly Unit is a Review.
This accelerated learning program insists on mastery of the basic skills of mathematics, the "bricks and boards" needed to build the base of the higher order thinking pyramid. It teaches the logic of mathematical structures and functions, and the ability to quickly construct and calculate the chain of mathematical operations needed to solve applications.
This type of discipline and mental exercise is as crucial to the neuro-physiological development of the brain as regular physical exercise is to the healthy growth of the body. Literally, the more you exercise the brain the smarter you become. An important part of this process is concentration.
The Math and Memory lessons included in this learning program develop the concentration needed for your children to "think on their feet" and see through to the solution of many complicated math applications often without resorting to pen, paper, or calculator. Mathematics provides much of what we call the "structure of thought" - that internalized database of fundamentals that helps us to make sense of and function effectively in our world.
Jones Geniuses Helps Your Children Experience the Best in Life
We have spoken about the pyramid of higher order thinking and its base of fundamental skills, like the math operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as well as factoring, fractions, and problem solving. There is also a pyramid of career achievement with unskilled labor at the base and highly skilled professionals at the top. On the bottom are those jobs that take little skill, picking crops in the field, many types of manual labor like garbage collection or digging ditches, or doing simple repetitive tasks like some kinds of assembly line work. Despite their simplicity, these jobs can present great hardship. Harvesting crops can be grueling physical labor in punishing weather as can other types of manual labor. Assembly line work can kill the spirit with its mindless repetitiveness. These can be difficult jobs but the pay is minimum because they require little or no skill.
On the other hand, the skills required to run a major corporation effectively are incredibly diverse and many must be done with a high degree of perfection. It's a complex juggling act and there is no time to stop and relearn math skills that should have been mastered long ago.
When a CEO is ineffective, the corporation suffers or even collapses and hundred or thousands may lose their livelihood. When a CEO succeeds, the corporation may make millions or billions in profit, hire more workers, provide more and better services and innovative products. There are few who can do these most highly skilled tasks. These few are often paid millions in salary because of their rare talents. There's plenty of room at the top. It's the bottom that's crowded. There are millions with no skills and little choice but low-paying, unsatisfying jobs.
This accelerated learning program will help your children have the best opportunities in the adventure of life!
"Dr. Jones math curriculum is the most advanced, exciting and easy to implement program I have ever found. The kids excelled quickly and came to enjoy a subject they had only tolerated before. My 3-year-old learned the basics of reading and math. My 17-year-old is doing cube roots in her head. What more can you ask of a course of study?"
-Cindy Camp, Garland, Texas
"The Genios regularly stun observers with lightning-fast mathematical calculations. Children are zipping through problems most educated adults would have trouble solving even with a calculator."
-Rebecca Rodriguez, Dallas Observer
"I was in my first college math course. All of the other students were several years older than me. On the first day the teacher asked what was the fifth root of 32. Of course, to a [JG Math] student that is an easy question, but when I answered it everyone turned to look at me in awe."
-Meredith Escobar, Lancaster, Texas
"Those who have gone through this (memory) exercise, at Super-Memory seminars given by Dr. Miles Jones, memory guru and teacher, will have a hard time NOT remembering."
-Bill Marvel, Dallas Morning News
"Kevin is surging into addition and subtraction and phonics. And Maureen "loves" math. They both love the ribbons. Wow! I'm impressed. Being a math kind of guy myself, I can see the incredible depth of understanding of how the mind learns and the amount of tedious work that has gone into this. I want to encourage you because you are really on to something."
-Randle McCaslin, Austin, Texas
"When we first met Dr. Jones, Kristen was in 6th grade and needed a jump-start in math. She was suffering from math phobia and was very behind, barely able to add and subtract, let alone multiply and divide. Within that year she became a Grand Facts Master and her math phobia disappeared. She went on to be on the demonstration team and eventually became captain of the team. I tell people that she went from not being able to multiply to being able to find the cube root of six-digit numbers. Amazing!"
-Tara Rose, DeSoto, Texas
"Matrix Math is great for my children because it is individualized for each child. We were able to stay on a concept until they mastered it [...] My seven-year-old is so excited about mastering a concept. She says it "is fun and easy to do!" My six-year-old loved the dots and couldn't wait to do the next sheet. My three-year-old, Simone, is now reading after only a few months in the program."
-Angel Baldwin, Arlington, Texas
"Dr. Jones! Just wanted to thank you for all we learned last year with you and your curriculum. [...] We are using the methods you taught us and applying them to our algrebra I & II lessons. Sometimes we get confused and then a little light comes on and we remember what Dr. Jones taught us and it all makes better sense. We wouldn't be able to make it through [...] without your methods. God bless you!"
-Laura Pool, Fort Worth, Texas
"Clinton took the 8th grade TAKS practice test on the internet and scored 95% for his grade level. His teacher asked for the salt content of the ocean if it increased at a consistent rate for one million years and Clinton was able to figure it out in his head. Clinton had a bad attitude at the beginning about math [...] now after a year he appreciates what he has learned from Dr. Jones."
-Cindy Howard, Dallas, Texas
"Dr. Miles Jones founded an accelerated learning program at Sam Houston Elementary that lets students complete the elementary curriculum as fast as they want."
-Beaumont Enterprise
"Are you ready to be embarrassed by some eight-year-olds? [...] Average kids from average schools who've learned the skills to mental math that make them faster than a calculator."
-Jeff Crilley, Channel Four News, Dallas
"Charis has had a BREAKTHROUGH in addition and subtraction: 3:52 on addition and 4:09 on subtraction. Multiplication is down to right at 5 minutes. [...] She's still fluctuating between 99% and 100% on that. Interestingly enough she's at 100% in division and is just over 5 minutes. We're getting there!"
-Valerie Pope, Fort Worth, Texas
"[Dr. Jones' first grader] Martha was calculating the cube root of 373,248. It took her less than ten seconds. Without putting pencil to paper she came up with the correct answer: 72."
-Associated Press
"It's just so amazing! It really caught me by surprise!"
-Delores Chavez, Dallas, Texas
"I wanted to tell you how thankful we are that Christian has been able to be in your classes. We cannot wait to have him tested. Thank you for your ministry to our young people. It is truly a blessing."
-Chris & Lynn Ellen Petersen, Dallas, Texas
"My daughter now does math at home on her own initiative - something she had not previously been inspired to do, despite the colorful and seemingly enticing curriculum we were using. Dr. Jones uses fun and imaginative board games he has designed to help improve memory and increase knowledge. One of these games, "The Big Potato," involves the memorization of the periodic table of the chemical elements. Another game, "Harvard Yard," helps prepare students for the SAT. Dr. Jones' classes have definitely enhanced my daughter's interest in and knowledge of mathematics."
-Jennifer Kuzbary, Dallas, Texas
"A group of Dallas elementary students took on math educators from several North Texas colleges. The educators even got to use calculators. Students, who didn't, still had the right answers more quickly than the educators. At the end of the '96 school year, 13 of 20 students were double promoted from first to third grade."
-Brad Wright, Channel 8 News
"Our son (age 10) has embraced this program with enthusiasm and great success. [...] He was struggling with an "I'm not good at math" attitude. [...] The change has been nothing short of phenomenal. To quote our son: "The classes are awesome. I have fun learning math." The course has completely eliminated any fear of math, no matter how complex the problem. [...] We unequivocally recommend Dr. Jones and his [JG Math] program to any parent regardless of the age, math aptitude and experience level of their child."
-David & Veda Johnson, Dallas, Texas
"Blessings, blessings, blessings! Before [JG Math], my children loathed math! There were frequent tears and exclamations of "I CANNOT DO THIS!" But now my children, all 7 of them, are excited about math and cannot wait to do it! They love math so much after just 3 weeks of your program that they ask to do it at night and on the weekends! Thanks so much!"
-Mikaela Raine, Dallas, Texas
"The problem was to find the fifth root of 714,924,299. In less than ten seconds, three students correctly answered 59. The adults, with calculators, took more than a minute. Some never finished."
-Karel Holloway, Dallas Morning News