Math Blog

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...

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...

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...

If you surveyed the population and asked, “How does someone get wealthy?” What answers do you think you would get? What would the most...

“Honey, let's crunch the numbers,” is a less-than-popular conversation starter in many households. Balancing the chequebook "at the...

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...

We’ve spent a lot of time at Mentorhood Math creating a curriculum that teaches math through concrete, relatable methods, because we...

It’s a common complaint from math students all over the world, learning a new concept or practicing a particularly tricky one: “But when...

Throughout this series, we’ve been exploring how the teaching techniques we use at Mentorhood Math, inspired by the highly successful...

A Review: VGCC Last week, we looked at how one method we favour at Mentorhood Math can help students move from understanding concepts...

The Singapore Math method is a teaching method that first connects students to concrete and relatable scenarios, empowering them to...

Singapore Math: New Trend? The Singapore Math method is not new. Concepts and teaching styles that closely resemble Singapore Math are...

Math Skills: Addition with in 10 (this printable in the video) Subtraction within 10 and Addition within 20 printable are also available....

Math Skills: 1. Visualize numbers by seeing group of 5 2. Ordering numbers / quantities from smallest to greatest (or vice versa) 1....

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...

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....

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...