Understanding how children learn maths helps parents and tutors teach it better. This hub explores how mathematical thinking develops, why understanding matters more than rote learning, how problem-solving skills grow and the role of play, curiosity and different learning styles.

Maths in Everyday Life

Contrary to what memes and some jokes might imply, you can use maths in daily life. 💡 Mathematical knowledge has its practical applications far beyond the classroom. What's more, we use some branches of mathematics without really noticing. It's almost second nature to us.Mathematical reasoning isn't really your forte, and..

What Maths Does a Data Scientist Need to Know?

World Economic Forum says that the digital universe has 40 times more bytes of data than the observable stars in the actual universe. Sounds immeasurable, doesn’t it? Data seems enigmatic with 5 billion searches every day and $1 million spent per minute on internet commodities. This amount of data..

Who Invented Maths

Mathematics is a field of science that deals with the logic of reason, quantity, arrangement, sequence, and shape. And math is involved in almost everything we do today, whether we know about it or not. It is largely to thank for our mobile phones, computers, tablets, most of our methods..

Creating Confident Kids: Let Them Fail

When Good Grades Outshine the Love of LearningWell-meaning parents all across the globe put a heavy emphasis on how well their children perform academically. They instill the importance of excelling in the classroom into their children from a young age, with hopes that their children will..

Does Screen Time Help Or Hurt Student’s Education?

Finding the Right Combination of Studying and Screen TimeParents everywhere struggle to find the right combination of studying and screen time for their children. If the kids had a vote, they’d “study” in front of their favorite TV show, or attempt to play video games while writing a paper. Concerned..

Multiple Intelligences and Math

Enhancing Math Learning with Howard Gardner's Multiple IntelligencesAccording to groundbreaking research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, there are eight distinct intelligences that play a pivotal role in how students learn. These intelligences, referred to as Multiple Intelligences (MI), can be used to enhance teaching and learning in mathematics. Gardner believes that..

The Art Of Problem Solving

Mastering Problem Solving in MathematicsProblem-solving questions are often the most challenging type of question for students in a math exam. These questions can involve multiple mathematical concepts and require a structured approach. There are several strategies that can help students learn the art of problem-solving in math. 🧠Reading the QuestionThis..

Multi-Stage Problem Solving

Addressing Student Challenges with Tough QuestionsOne of my students has a habit of challenging herself by attempting tough questions, but is unable to complete them and as a result gets demoralised. To fix this, I usually break up these tougher questions into parts to make them doable. However, in doing..

Hinting In Problem Solving Challenges

I could use some advice on giving students hints in regards to solving a problem. I am constantly giving students hints on how to solve a problem in order for them to get the concept on their own; however, sometimes they seem to not be picking up on these hints...

Developing Problem Solving Skills

Do you have any more suggestions as to how I can help my year 12 student to get into good problem-solving habits, he does not like the self-questioning process? 🤔 It is hard to answer your question because of the lack of specificity. What specifically is wrong with his problem..

Conquering Rote Learning

**Enjoying the Learning Journey**I always enjoy my time with the year 3 student, we always do some good work while I'm there but I find it hard to be sharp in my questioning, to challenge him in what he is doing and really force him to actually think and develop..