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1. Master Math Basics Before Grade 4 There are so many cases in my teaching life, which the students did not master their basics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication or division and then in their later life these unskilled basics have had dramatic impact on their math... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 88 days ago.)

2. How to Get High Marks in Math (Why Some Students Just Can't Get A in Math) There were a few cases in my over 10 years of tutoring math that I just could not boost my student's math marks higher and I have spent some time to observe them and compared why some of my students... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 92 days ago.)

3. Why Children Do Not Learn Math Well There are a few occasions I have my math students told me that if they do not write the exact steps their day school teachers told them then their points will be deducted. I did not have the chance to clarify with their teachers but there were... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 97 days ago.)

4. How to Teach Word Problems to Elementary Students Why students have mastered or understood the basics of arithmetic such as whole number addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division and yet many of them cannot do word problems well? Our observation is most of commercially available basics... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 97 days ago.)

5. How to Teach Math (Elementary Math) Yesterday I was teaching a grade one girl and she had some trouble to figure out the answers with questions such as ? + 5 = 11 but when given the question 6 + 5 to her, she could do it with ease. So clearly the reverse thinking presents a bit... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 105 days ago.)

6. Singapore Math Demystified We have read and heard some reports on how some of the word problems of primary schools in Singapore are much more difficult than those corresponding parts of problems in North America and also how impressive that Singapore math uses bar model to... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 107 days ago.)

7. How to Find a Good Vancouver Math Tutor What makes it special to be a math tutor in Vancouver? This question can be answered by asking How to Find a Good Beijing Math Tutor of being an expatriated Canadian family in China? So the qualifications of being a good math tutor vary when the... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 119 days ago.)

8. How to Teach Times Table (Multiplication Table or Facts) Recently we were studying the effect of teaching methods of times table on children's math ability a few years later after they have been taught. The reason is some teaching methods may appear very effective in teaching times table at the time... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 124 days ago.)

9. How to Find a Good Elementary Math Tutor Judging from my own math tutoring experience, the method for teaching primary students is different from teaching secondary students. How to make math fun is a very important objective in tutoring primary students. From a primary student's point... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 135 days ago.)

10. How My Son Andrew Ho Became a Chess Master My son Andrew was interested in chess when he was a bit over 5 years old and at that time my chess knowledge was zero. I thought it was an interesting project if I could learn chess together with him so I went to the Canada Vancouver library and... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 148 days ago.)

11. How to Use Chess to Increase Brainpower Although many research reports have reported that the process of playing chess is very similar to the process of critical thinking and considered that chess play as a method of improving children's problem solving skill and brainpower. Over 10... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 154 days ago.)

12. How to Play Blind Chess or Half Chess Ho Math and Chess Teaching Set is especially designed for young children to learn chess. Since Ho Math and Chess Teaching pieces have flat surfaces and uniform outlook in square size, the pieces cannot be identified and are indistinguishable... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 192 days ago.)

13. How to Teach Children Math To learn arithmetic, children need to learn basics and at the same time children also need to master the basics. I have been teaching and tutoring math from kindergarten to grade 12 for over 15 years and often I found that some children do not... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 212 days ago.)

14. How to Teach Kindergartner Chess and Math The integrated chess and math teaching strategy for children as young as 4 and half years old is very different from teaching much older children. In learning chess, many very young children do not care as much as their parents as to their... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 215 days ago.)

15. How to Buy a Specialty Math Learning Center Franchise The future trend of learning center industry is to go specialty, the competition is so fierce among learning centers, new comers would have hard time to survive if the after-school learning center is not specialized, much like many customers now... (posted by mathandchess 4 years 296 days ago.)

16. Chess and Geometry – Teaching Kindergarten Chess After researching the relationship between chess and math for over 10 years, I conjecture that chess is a geometry-based game, which particularly is related to the concept of symmetry. So the way to teach a very young child is perhaps to point out... (posted by mathandchess 5 years 33 days ago.)

17. Why chess knight jumps? Teaching Chess Using Geometry Concept When playing chess, the only chess piece which moves around by jumping is a chess piece called knight, why? Is there some kind of special reason why only this piece jumps? The author thinks it has something more to do with mathematics than... (posted by mathandchess 5 years 47 days ago.)

18. How To Find a Good Math Learning Center? Children's after school learning center and tutoring is at very high demand, math tutoring is the highest demand subject of all after school subjects. How to find a good math learning centre? The most two important ingredients are the teaching... (posted by mathandchess 6 years 313 days ago.)

19. How Not to Buy a Money Burning Math Learning Center Franchise In my over 10 years of tutoring business, I have seen so many learning centers come and go in Vancouver, Canada. I had a binder full of names of learning centers which were set up in the past 10 years but most of them are gone now, no where to be... (posted by mathandchess 6 years 313 days ago.)

20. My Experience of Coaching Math Contest Preparation This article is about comparing the MATHCOUNTS results of students whom I coached in 1999 and 2000, with different methods in a private learning centre - Ho Math and Chess. I feel the main reason of improvements was due to different coaching... (posted by mathandchess 6 years 315 days ago.)

21. Connection of Math and Chess I got into math and chess integrated teaching and research because of my son Andrew was interested in chess when he was about 6 years of old, My interest in creating math and chess integrated workbooks was sparked because there were no... (posted by mathandchess 6 years 316 days ago.)