You might find visual cues / diagrams helpful ... I've been gradually doing a few of these as I bootstrap Gridmaths.com. You can see some sample screenshots o

You might find visual cues / diagrams helpful ... I've been gradually doing a few of these as I bootstrap Gridmaths.com. You can see some sample screenshots of worked problems in blogposts at : quantblog.wordpress.com I think we miss engaging with quite a few students, because we focus on procedures and process rather than visualization in school [ I could be wrong, this is subjective, but at least we should try and explore different ways of presenting math ] Khanacademy videos and GeoGebra might be useful also.