All posts by Lily Massaro

Lily is from Portland, Oregon (US). She studies psychology and education at Middlebury College in Vermont, but is currently interning at Smartick in Madrid. In her free time she enjoys cooking, running, and working with children.

Jun20

Searching for Fun Activities for Your Kids This Summer?

Searching for fun activities for your kids this summer? In addition to their daily 15 minutes of Smartick Method, we recommend playing brain training games in Smartick Virtual World to help train memory, attention, flexibility, reasoning, and more. Brain training, also known as cognitive training or neurobics, has a similar function to exercises you might […]

Apr11

How Smartick Virtual World Games Might Help Your Child’s Math Achievement

What is Working Memory? Math skills and achievement are related to a student’s memory, or in technical terms, their mental capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information [1,2]. There are two types of memory relevant to arithmetic operations: Long-term memory allows you to remember facts (i.e. your mother’s birthday), general knowledge (i.e. the sounds of letters), personal […]