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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Mar 25, 20234 min read
Teaching Singapore Math at Home - Part 4
Multiplication and Division Models At Mentorhood, we love visuals. We’re not the only ones to use visuals to introduce the concepts of...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Mar 1, 20234 min read
Teaching Singapore Math at Home - Part 3
So far, we’ve looked at how the visualization emphasized by Singapore Math allows young learners to develop the ability to group numbers...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Jan 25, 20233 min read
Teaching Singapore Math at Home - Part 2
Last month, we explored understanding numbers using concrete representations. Identifying physical objects or fingers makes it easy for...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Dec 31, 20224 min read
Teaching Singapore Math at Home - Part 1
Concrete Foundations The past several years have brought online and at-home learning into regular learning schedules for more families...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Dec 1, 20224 min read
Computer Coding: A Coding of Butter on a Muffin of Math
First thing in the morning: cue sunrise. Cue alarm. Cue reaching over and hitting the snooze button on your cell phone. Cue alarm...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Oct 30, 20224 min read
Private Tutoring: The Forgotten Staple of Education
You sit down with your child at the end of a mutually long day. They struggle in math, and you’re helping them review the lessons from...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Oct 3, 20223 min read
Making Math FUN!
Did you know that kids use math everyday...for fun? Kids are constantly engaging their brains in running calculations, optimizing...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Sep 4, 20224 min read
Navigating a New Turn: It’s Back-to-School!
This September is going to be a blast—right? Lots of us are heading back to school—in-person—and hoping to leave online classes behind...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Jul 31, 20223 min read
What Does a Full Year Course with Mentorhood Look Like?
We’re glad you asked, because that’s our specialty! We offer full year curriculum programs for kindergarten through grade six. These...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Jul 1, 20223 min read
Doing Math Together: The Benefits of Small Class Sizes
Small class sizes are seen in education as advantageous for both academic performance and engagement. With small classes, students have a...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
May 31, 20225 min read
Coding a Future: Full STEaM Ahead
Stephen Hawking is quoted as saying, “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” And we live in a rapidly changing world, don’t we?...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Apr 29, 20223 min read
My child has never done Singapore math before. Is it too late to start?
Will Singapore Math be out of reach for my child, who’s only ever participated in mainstream instruction before? How does it compare? At...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Mar 26, 20223 min read
How We Develop Intuition
When was the last time your instinct answered something before your brain did? Maybe you tossed in the right pinch of spices to a recipe...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Feb 26, 20224 min read
Should Math Cater to Learning Styles?
Do you know your learning style? Chances are you can harken back to a time in grade school when someone handed you a quiz: Which Learning...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Jan 30, 20223 min read
Why Math SHOULD Be Fun
Do you remember the students in your class who seemed to live for math? They just seemed to be gifted. They did extra problems, and...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Nov 8, 20215 min read
Wealth Building
If you surveyed the population and asked, “How does someone get wealthy?” What answers do you think you would get? What would the most...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Nov 1, 20214 min read
Budgeting Cents-ibly
“Honey, let's crunch the numbers,” is a less-than-popular conversation starter in many households. Balancing the chequebook "at the...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Oct 18, 20213 min read
The Math Career Path: Aviation
You don't have to look too closely to see math at work in everyday life. From calculating transaction change and sale prices, to looking...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Sep 19, 20213 min read
No Room For Repetition?
We’ve spent a lot of time at Mentorhood Math creating a curriculum that teaches math through concrete, relatable methods, because we...
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Christy - Mentorhood Math
Sep 19, 20213 min read
The Math Career Path: Math in the Medical World
It’s a common complaint from math students all over the world, learning a new concept or practicing a particularly tricky one: “But when...
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