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 with her children. Fiona and her two stars had the opportunity to work on their Smartick maths sessions. Fiona was ecstatic to […]
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’re going to learn about probability and how we can use it in daily life. One of the most special characteristics of human beings, which sets us apart from other animals, is our ability to “predict”, to anticipate the events that will occur. Sometimes we’re wrong, but we’re often right, and this […]
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