The summer can be a wonderful time for students, but going back to school after three months of vacation can be miserable!  When your child goes from attending class five days a week to spending months away from school, summer learning loss starts to set in, which can make the transition back to school difficult.  The summer learning loss a student can suffer in math is especially pernicious; not only may your child have to play catch-up for the first weeks of school, but your child may fall so far behind that he or she cannot keep up with the pace of the teacher and classmates as the semester progresses.