If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann “The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” S. Gudder Someone asked me once: “Why do you pay so much importance [...]
Teaching mathematics to children can sometimes be difficult particularly if you are teaching “over their head” and lose them – because once they are lost it is difficult to reel them back in! So some tips to keep it light and make it a good experience for all might be helpful. Simple doesn’t have to [...]
Teaching fractions is relatively simple when you are at the one-half (1/2) or one-quarter (1/4) but when you start getting into tenths and hundredths it becomes a little more difficult to adequately explain it to children. Graphics are an easy way to show the class so that the concept becomes clearer as you go along. [...]
3 new elementary math card games for Fractions and Geometry. 4 Whole Numbers & Fractions Card Games (Grades 4-6) 3 Geometry Games (Grades 1-3) 3 Fractions, Decimals & Percent Games (Grades 2-4
Too often teachers get caught up in the day to day activities of teaching math and sometimes become like automatons doing things the same way day after day and year after year. When you find that you don’t deviate from the textbook or from the same tired examples you have used over and over – [...]
Basic addition and subtraction start children on the road to learning mathematics. Most children already know how to count when they start in pre-school or Kindergarten but do they really understand what that means and how it will be used in everyday life? Most probably do as they learn to count on their fingers or [...]