Apr27
Changing Attitudes and Mindsets When Cassidy’s daughter sets her mind on something, there’s no stopping her, even when it comes to doing math. This can be great when she decides to master a particular skill. However, Cassidy explains on her blog Freshly Planted, some challenges of this mentality, as it became nearly impossible to change […]
Continue reading »Apr23
In today’s post we’re going to take a look at a sequence of math problems in which we will focus on selecting the relevant data and concepts in the statement. We’ll work on this skill using four exercises based on separate problems. The key is to reflect on the text, focusing on fulfilling the condition […]
Continue reading »Apr20
Fiona is the mother of 2 children, or as she likes to refer to them: her stars! She balances work life with motherhood while managing Mummy’s Little Stars, a blog highlighting the quality time she has with her children. Fiona and her two stars were given the opportunity to work on their Smartick maths sessions […]
Continue reading »Apr16
In previous posts, we’ve learned how to place different numbers on the number line. Today we’re going to learn how to represent fractions on a number line. This is very useful when we need to compare them. Fractions with the same denominator As we know, it’s easy to compare fractions with the same denominator. In these cases, […]
Continue reading »Apr13
It’s safe to say that Smartick mom Karen is a proponent of developing maths skills early on. In her blog, Stopping at Two, she highlights the importance of numeracy skills and building these foundations at a young age. When her daughter Freyja started second grade, she started to find math difficult. Despite her teacher […]
Continue reading »Apr11
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 […]
Continue reading »Apr09
In this post, we are going to learn quite a few things about probability: what it is, what it’s used for, and how it is calculated, as well as some examples that we could find in our daily life. What is Probability? One of the most special characteristics humans possess that sets us apart from […]
Continue reading »Apr06
Raising Math Scores with Smartick When Louise Bishop realized her daughter was working below grade level in math, she was totally baffled. She had been homeschooling for about three years and her children seemed to be progressing through their school work rather quickly. Since they were grasping concepts so easily, she considered moving them up a grade. […]
Continue reading »Apr02
In today’s post we’re going to learn to add using the Rekenrek abacus to help us. We saw in a previous post that the rekenrek is a flexible learning material because it can be adapted to different calculation strategies. Today we’re going to talk in detail about how to use the rekenrek to help demonstrate some of the […]
Continue reading »Mar30
When her son Cullen started kindergarten just a few weeks ago, Meagan decided to help him along and check out some online resources that could be helpful for her son’s education. Because math is so important for a successful future, it was at the top of Meagan’s list. She came across Smartick Method and quickly registered […]
Continue reading »Mar28
At Smartick we love languages! Which is why you can complete exercises and tutorials, practice skills with the games in SmartickBrain, and much more in two languages: English and Spanish. English is the official language of approximately 67 countries, and Spanish is spoken in about 20. These languages all differ in pronunciation, spelling, and even […]
Continue reading »Mar26
Have you ever wondered what the temperature is at the top of the highest mountains in Alaska. Or how hot it is in the middle of the Sahara desert? How can we measure these temperatures? Do you think every country measures them the same way? Temperature can be expressed using a temperature scale, which allows us to […]
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