Aug25
Today, we’re going to learn about inverse proportionality between magnitudes. To start off, we need to remind ourselves that a magnitude is anything that can be measured. If this doesn’t ring a bell, look over our previous post where we talk about direct proportionality and explain the concept of magnitude: Direct Proportionality Lots of magnitudes […]
Continue reading »Aug23
Statistics is one of the several important, forgotten topics in Elementary school classrooms. It is much more important than what the educational system believes it to be. If you want to discover “the power” of statistics, keep on reading. Statistics is the key to understanding our surroundings Statistics comes from the need to analyze and […]
Continue reading »Aug21
What’s a fraction? It’s not an easy question to answer. Despite it being such a familiar element, fractions have various meanings, which makes it tricky to define and in turn, teach, and understand. Fractions can be interpreted in no less than five ways; we’ll look at those ways in this post. The different meanings of […]
Continue reading »Aug18
In today’s post, we’re going to take a look at some examples of one-dimensional series that we have at Smartick—get your thinking caps on. But, let’s start with some simple examples. Here, we have an example that asks us to identify the pattern: Look carefully at our worm friend. The first thing that we need […]
Continue reading »Aug16
Hello again! Do you know what factoring is? Do you know what it is used for? In this post we will answer these questions. How to Factor The factorization of a number is performed by writing the number as the multiplication of all its prime factors. Example: 12 = 2 x 2 x 3 You can […]
Continue reading »Aug14
What is scientific notation? Why do we use it? How do we use it? How can we write a number in scientific notation? These are some questions that we’ll answer in today’s post. What is scientific notation and why do we use it? Working with very large or small quantities usually ends up being […]
Continue reading »Aug11
In this post we will learn a strategy to divide by 2 (halves), by 4 (fourths) or by 8 (eighths) mentally. We will start by looking at the concept of halving: Divide by Halves: To divide by 2, we just have to look for half of the number. For example, to divide 24/2, we find […]
Continue reading »Aug07
In this post we will learn the criteria of divisibility by 5. A number is divisible by 5 when dividing the number by 5 results in a remainder of zero. But how can we know without having to complete the division? Here we show you the easiest way. Divisibility criteria for 5: To determine if a number is […]
Continue reading »Aug04
In today’s post, we are going to take a look at the distributive property from a geometric point of view. You can consult these entries for more information on this property: Multiplication Properties Distributive Property from a Geometric point of view: We’re going to start by drawing a striped rectangle that’s divided into two smaller […]
Continue reading »Aug02
In this post, we’re going to go a little further with proportional relationship. Let’s take a look at some different examples of ratio and proportion in everyday life. Before we begin, let’s review both of these concepts in the following link: Ratio and Proportion. As we’ve mentioned before, it’s all about two ways of relating quantities, […]
Continue reading »Jul31
In this post we are going to learn a simple way of multiplying by 25 and 75. First, we’ll learn the method and then we’ll give mental math a shot. Multiplying by 25: The number 25 is 100 divided by 4. So, in order to multiply by 25 what we have to do is […]
Continue reading »Jul28
In today’s post we will look at how to calculate the square of the sum of two numbers a and b, (a + b) ². Notable Identities: For example: We built a square with sides of a + b units length: If we calculate the area of this square (we know that the area […]
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