Oct12
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is becoming increasingly more relevant today, what with the continued innovations being developed in the aforementioned sectors. Unfortunately, the growth in these industries is severely limited by the lack of people working in these particular professional fields. CNN reports that only 16% of high school seniors end up […]
Continue reading »Oct11
In today’s post we’re going to take a look at the compound rule of 3, but first we need to remind ourselves about the simple rule of 3. I’ve selected some previous posts that you can look at if you need to: Rule of three: Direct and Inverse Direct and Inverse Rule of three Problems […]
Continue reading »Oct09
In today’s post, we’re going to take a look at some strategies for solving problems that involve incomplete horizontal additions and subtractions, using examples to help us. Acquiring mental calculation strategies is not always easy, since there’s no defined “best method” for everyone, and it can be frustrating if you don’t pick it up quickly. […]
Continue reading »Oct04
In today’s post, we’re going to see how to solve some of the problems that we’ve introduced in Smartick: fraction word problems. They appear during the word problems section at the end of the daily session. We’re going to look at how to solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions, including mixed fractions (the […]
Continue reading »Oct03
Today I want to introduce you to Katie and her daughter Squiggle (her wonderful nickname). They are a lovely family living in the UK. They kindly agreed to try Smartick’s online maths platform and Katie wrote about their experience on her blog Living Life Our Way. Katie describes her page as an outdoor lifestyle blog about family […]
Continue reading »Oct02
This week we’re going to tell you about our new educational innovations. At Smartick, we continue to add new content and improve what we already have in order to offer the best product on the market for learning math online. We update the platform every six weeks or so, and this post is hopefully going […]
Continue reading »Sep29
In this entry, we’re going to explain how to break down or factor a number to its prime numbers step by step. Before we start anything, feel free to look at these entries where we explain what “factoring” means and what a prime number is so you can refresh your memory. Factorization How to factor […]
Continue reading »Sep28
As parents often ask, we have outlined some Smartick features and compared them with IXL Math. We would like to help families make an informed decision when selecting an online math program. We want to guide them through what we believe is important and what they should look for. 1. Personalized experience No two students […]
Continue reading »Sep27
In today’s entry, we are going to look at the distributive property of multiplication with respect to addition and subtraction. The distributive property is one of the properties of multiplication that is applied with respect to addition or subtraction. This property tells us that if we add or subtract several numbers and we multiply the […]
Continue reading »Sep25
Addition and multiplication both use the associative property, while subtraction and division do not. We’re going to to get up close with each situation to get a better idea. The associative property in Addition ♥ Addition indeed has the associative property. Whatever numbers a, b, and c may be, they always end up the same: […]
Continue reading »Sep22
In today’s post, we are going to solve a probability problem that appeared in Madrid’s 2008 Standardized Elementary Testing Exam (CDI): Let’s start by reviewing some probability concepts. Sample space: The sample space refers to all of the possible outcomes of a random experiment and it’s often represented by E (or as omega, Ω, from […]
Continue reading »Sep20
In today’s post we’re going to look at the concept of equations. To start, we’re going to take a look at this situation: “One third of Cecilia’s flowerpots contain daisies, half of them are full of pansies, and the other twelve contain poppies. How many flowerpots does Cecilia have?” Think about it, and see if […]
Continue reading »
