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FREE Math Intervention for Right-Brained, Creative & Neurodivergent Learners (Grades 5–9)

Math Learning Secrets — the free eGuide

How home and school educators end the math battles and help learners fall in love with math through real-life experiences — by doing less, not more.

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Jenny, a NatureGlo student, observing moss through a magnifying glass — noticing the living world up close.

Does This Sound Like You — a Parent or Teacher of a Struggling Math Learner?

You've tried the curriculum.
You've tried the online programs.
You've tried the step-by-step methods.

But nothing seems to reach your learner’s brain in a way that actually sticks. You’re not imagining this — and you’re not failing them.

When every math lesson turns into resistance, tears, or complete disengagement...

There's more happening than "they just don't like math."

This ongoing struggle affects:

Their confidence
Their sense of capability
Their willingness to try
Your connection with your learner during learning time

And the longer it goes on, the harder it becomes to break the cycle.

Children examining fruits and vegetables outdoors with their teacher — discovering math patterns in produce.

Gloria Brooks with Elijah School high school students journaling outdoors at Fairhill, 2008 — learning in the living world.

Here’s the truth most educators aren’t told:

Your learner is struggling because the traditional math system was never built for their type of brain.

Right-brained, visual-spatial, ADHD, dyslexic, dyscalculic, and highly creative learners process the world differently.

But the standard math approach — rigid steps, memorization, abstract symbols — doesn’t match the way their brains naturally understand information.

The issue isn’t the learner.

It’s the system they’ve been asked to learn inside.

In this Free eGuide, You'll Finally Understand:

Two MathArt™ students standing with their life-size paper drawings of a short-faced bear and a brown bear — learning scale by standing inside it.

Homeschool brothers using math to create life-sized bears while standing next to their artwork for their own true to life size comparison.

Why your learner shuts down when math becomes abstract or step-heavy

The real reason traditional curriculum triggers anxiety for creative and neurodivergent learners.

How to fix the math learning struggle at its root, without more worksheets, more drilling, or, more pressure.

This isn’t about giving you another method to try.

It’s about helping you understand why nothing has worked so far — and what will.

What's Inside of the Math Learning Secrets Guide?

Secret #1 — The Math Reset: heal the math relationship first — step back from the drill-and-test mindset so math can become interesting again.

Secret #2 — Notice Math Everywhere: learn to really see math all around you, so you can teach your learner the same skill.

Secret #3 — Create Learning Centers: set up centers your learner will love to engage with, so math becomes a place they want to return to.

Secret #4 — Play with Math: play is the language of learning — connect and communicate through it.

Secret #5 — Guide the Children: once the environment is rich, guide your learners toward independent, lifelong learning habits.

Here's What Else You Get Inside:

Math Learning Secrets eGuide — table of contents, sunset cover and nature journal pages fanned out, NatureGlo's eScience

The Math Learning Secrets eGuide

The full guide, 2026 revision: the 5 Secrets for replacing unwanted math curriculum with real-life learning — plus troubleshooting for common challenges, real learner case studies, and a printable unit study planner. By doing less, not more.

The Challenge Study Guide

The fillable companion that turns reading into doing: brainstorm and homework pages for every secret, so the ideas land in your real learning days. It follows the guide inside the same download, ready when you are.

Math Learning Secrets Study Guide — cover photo of Gloria Brooks holding her nature journal, with brainstorm pages for the secrets, NatureGlo's eScience

MathArt™ Templates Toolbox for Math Learning Secrets — Daily Planner, Math Resources Checklist and unit study tips pages fanned out, NatureGlo's eScience

The Templates Toolbox

Ready-to-use templates from the MathArt™ Templates Toolbox: the NatureGlo Daily Planner, the Math Resources Checklist, and Tips for Unit Study MATH — for noticing math everywhere and planning your own MathArt™ projects.

All three arrive together in one download.

This guide gives you the clarity shift educators tell us brought instant relief and a new sense of hope.

Who is this for?

A MathArt student drawing a colorful rainbow mandala.

The Right-Brained Creative

Your learner loves art, LEGOs, and stories, but shuts down when asked to memorize multiplication tables or follow rigid steps — at home or in the classroom.

A MathArt student decorating Fibonacci cookies.

The Neurodivergent Thinker

(A Common Profile for a Struggling Math Student)

Diagnosed or suspected ADHD, Dyslexia, or Dyscalculia. Your learner needs novelty and context to focus, not boring drills — whether you teach at home or in the classroom.

A tray of tessellation cookies — geometric-pattern cookies baked by MathArt students.

The Math Anxious

Smart learners who have lost all confidence. They think they are 'stupid' because standard curriculum doesn't speak their language — at home or in the classroom.

WHAT STUDENTS AND PARENTS SAY:

My hatred of math stemmed mostly from a learning disability called dyscalculia...Once I began thinking of math as the key to imagination, rather than the locked door that blocked creativity, I noticed a change in my art. My drawings no longer looked stiff and emotionless. My people seemed to be alive on the paper, smiling at me in their cartoonish way.”

Megan Boyer

MathArt™ Homeschool Student

My daughter loved the MathArt™ class she took through NatureGlo’s eScience. I know she would have taken more but we moved to an area with poor internet connection availability which made the online meeting portion of the class not possible. She says it was one of the best homeschool classes she has ever taken!

Kelsi N. Stembel

Homeschool Mom

"My children loved the options of all of these multi-sensory things to do. They worked in groups on various activities throughout our studies."

— Hillary Moore, Homeschool mom.

"My son was inspired to do his golden rectangle on Minecraft. He was pretty excited, and I loved that he could do it in a way that gets him excited about it."

— Desiree Winz, Homeschool mom.

The Story behind the Math Learning Secrets Guide by the author, Gloria A. Brooks

I'm Gloria Aimee Brooks, and here's how the Math Learning Secrets Guide found me. In the summer of 1997, fresh from my first year of teaching, I picked up a worn 1963 Time-Life book called Mathematics by David Bergamini at a used book sale — and found the beautiful, living math nobody had ever taught me: spirals, patterns, the numbers woven through nature. I hunted for more, found almost nothing, and life moved on.

In 2003, burned out in a Newark, Delaware classroom where math had become the dreaded hour, a seminar speaker named Don Tolman began talking about the golden ratio — and the living math found me again. I filled 24 binders with research, took my camera outside every day after school, and shared the treasure hunt with my students.

When my principal asked me to create a course called Math Lab, the 5-secrets system in this guide was born — the same system that grew into MathArt™ and has reached thousands of learners since. I'd love the privilege and honor to work with your homeschool or classroom!

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