Jul02
Meet Mama B, a new Smartick mom blogger who has recently written a review on how her children are learning maths with Smartick. You can read Smartick Method Maths Program – Product Review here. Mama B was thrilled to try Smartick at home with her two lovely kids, ages 8 and 9. They both love animals, […]
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In today’s post, we are going to have a look at series: what they are and what they’re used for. What Are Series? Any sequence of objects that we’ve put into an order which follow any kind of criteria. The criteria that determines the object order can be one that we make up or it […]
Continue reading »Jun29
Today we are sharing our interview with Sybil Lane. This Georgia mom and her son Aodhan came across Smartick at the beginning of the year and have been using it ever since! Sybil tells us how Smartick’s short daily math sessions can be helpful (and fun!) for children on the autism spectrum and children with […]
Continue reading »Jun28
In this post, we are going to learn a mental math trick for adding and subtracting various numbers. It’s all about grouping the numbers that can give us exactly ten. In order to do so, we really need to pay attention to the numbers. Mental Math: Addition In order to add, we need to see […]
Continue reading »Jun27
This week Leanna, mom of 3 and education blogger, released a blog post sharing her Top Tips to Beat the Summer Slide! What is the Summer Slide? The summer slide occurs when children lose knowledge learned from the previous school year from lack of learning over the summer. A lot of the hard work and hours of school […]
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In today’s post we’re going to learn how to add fractions, using something that I’m sure you know and love: Lego blocks! They’ll help you understand the concept, just like the Singapore Method, and they’re also something that I’m sure you have at home. If not, you can draw your own, like the ones you’ll […]
Continue reading »Jun26
In today’s post, we are going to learn how to add with regrouping. Addition with regrouping consists of addition problems where the answer to the calculation is 10 or a bigger number. For example, 6 + 7 = 13 The steps to solve regrouping addition problems are the following: If the column being added doesn’t […]
Continue reading »Jun24
How strange is the wording of these problems! The justification of these convoluted statements that seem like a bad idea by the author. It has always been so, that when we teach mathematics there are two large areas: that of “exercises” and that of “problems“. Exercises could be defined as activities to practice how tools […]
Continue reading »Jun23
In today’s post we are going to work with proportions. Today, we’ll start by looking at problems with proportional numbers. In order to solve problems with proportional numbers, the first step is to know the concepts of ratio and proportion. Ratio A ratio is the quotient of two numbers or quantities that are being compared […]
Continue reading »Jun22
This week we have another great review of Smartick from AK Turner, mom and author of her own blog and book series: Vagabonding with Kids! AK Turner is The New York Times bestselling author of the Vagabonding with Kids series. A former humor columnist, AK Turner founded “The Writers’ Block” on Radio Boise, serves on the board of the […]
Continue reading »Jun21
In today’s post, we’re going to talk about multiplying fractions using the Singapore Math Bar Model. Let’s take a look at an example: Amy drew a rectangle and colored in 2/5 of the parts purple and after, she striped 1/2 of them yellow. We can calculate the answer by observing the described section between the […]
Continue reading »Jun20
At Smartick, we recognize the importance of math. We want to make sure that families from all over the world have the chance to learn and improve their math skills. Just a few years after forming our team of 50+ engineers, mathematicians, educators, and psychologists in the European Union in 2011, we were ready to […]
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