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Budgeting Cents-ibly
“Honey, let's crunch the numbers,” is a less-than-popular conversation starter in many households. Balancing the chequebook "at the...
Christy - Mentorhood Math
Nov 2, 20214 min read
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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...
Christy - Mentorhood Math
Oct 19, 20213 min read
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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...
Christy - Mentorhood Math
Sep 20, 20213 min read
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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...
Christy - Mentorhood Math
Sep 20, 20213 min read
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Spoon-feeding: Leaves Too Much Potential on the Plate - Part 3
Throughout this series, we’ve been exploring how the teaching techniques we use at Mentorhood Math, inspired by the highly successful...
Christy - Mentorhood Math
Sep 13, 20214 min read
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Spoonfeeding: Leaves Too Much Potential On the Plate: Part 2
A Review: VGCC Last week, we looked at how one method we favour at Mentorhood Math can help students move from understanding concepts...
Christy - Mentorhood Math
Sep 6, 20214 min read
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Spoon-feeding: Leaves Too Much Potential on the Plate: Part 1
The Singapore Math method is a teaching method that first connects students to concrete and relatable scenarios, empowering them to...
Christy - Mentorhood Math
Aug 25, 20214 min read
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Singapore Math: The New Trend?
Singapore Math: New Trend? The Singapore Math method is not new. Concepts and teaching styles that closely resemble Singapore Math are...
Christy - Mentorhood Math
Aug 15, 20214 min read
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Kindergarten Game - Addition within 10
Math Skills: Addition with in 10 (this printable in the video) Subtraction within 10 and Addition within 20 printable are also available....
Mentorhood Math
May 31, 20191 min read
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Math Games - Match the cards - Visualize numbers
Math Skills: 1. Visualize numbers by seeing group of 5 2. Ordering numbers / quantities from smallest to greatest (or vice versa) 1....
Mentorhood Math
May 29, 20191 min read
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Math Game - Snap 20 – the harder version
This game is Snap 20 – the harder version. 1. Shuffle and distribute the whole deck of cards to each player. 2. Each player gets the same...
Karen Lai
Oct 24, 20181 min read
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Math Games: Make it with 2 cards - Combination
Math Skills: Combination of numbers / Addition 1. Shuffle the cards and give each person 2 cards. 2. set a target number, let say 10. 3....
Mentorhood Math
Oct 3, 20181 min read
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Spread the Joy of Learning & Teaching Math
Parents from South Horizons branch know Miss Jackie very well as a teacher but they might not know she was one of our students in...
Karen Lai
Jul 24, 20181 min read
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