Dec08
In today’s post we’re going to talk about the concepts of Constants and Variables as mathematical elements, as well as taking a look at an example. In mathematics, we call constant all those magnitudes that don’t change with time. It can sometimes be a fixed and determined value. On the other hand we have the concept […]
Continue reading »Dec06
What if your kids were motivated to complete their online math work without complaints each day? What if you could take a little time off from planning math instruction? What if your children could continue to make progress over the holidays while YOU take a break? These are the questions, Ashley, from the blog Some Random […]
Continue reading »Dec04
In today’s post we’re going to review our times tables, while at the same time learning a trick to make them shorter. Before we start, you can review the times tables if you need to by clicking this link. Are you ready? Let’s start! Have you noticed that the numbers repeat across all the times tables? For example, […]
Continue reading »Dec01
In today’s post we’re going to learn about mixed numbers, which are much easier to interpret than the improper fractions they represent. We’re going to look at some examples of the exercises and problems that you can work on in Smartick and the types of numbers that you can work on in these activities. You’ll be able to do them […]
Continue reading »Nov29
Carrie from Loving Life Outside the Box is a seasoned homeschooling mom of 5 children, ranging from ages 5 to 14. Her family enjoys the outdoors and their homeschool days are filled with creative ideas to make learning fun! When we reached out to her, she was interested to hear more about our math program. […]
Continue reading »Nov28
When it comes to digital games, we all belong to one of these four groups – those who play as much as they can, those who avoid them completely in fear of getting hooked (yes, that’s me!), those who are completely lost when the conversation turns to Candy Crush, and finally, those who play sporadically. Whichever […]
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In this entry, we’re going to look at some problems involving the inverse rule of 3 so you can practice it at home. If you want to remind yourself of when you should apply the inverse rule of 3 and how to solve it, you can go to this previous blog entry: Inverse proportionality: The […]
Continue reading »Nov22
Smartick Method was recently reviewed by Justine, mom and blogger behind Sunny in June. Her kids were already excelling in math, but she thought Smartick could be useful to help keep their skills fresh: “I had my son use Smartick in the summer. He was enrolled in preschool and received a ton of excellent math instruction […]
Continue reading »Nov20
In today’s post, we’re going to look at percentages through the Singapore bar model. To define a part of a whole, we can use a fraction, but we can also use a percentage. The whole divides into 100 equal parts, therefore each part is 1/100 of the whole or 1%. Let’s look at an example of […]
Continue reading »Nov17
In today’s post we’re going to talk about Geometry and and 2D figures. To help us, we’re going to use an old Chinese game, Tangram. The Tangram is a puzzle made up of 7 pieces: a parallelogram (rhomboid), a square, and 5 triangles. The objective of this game is to create shapes using the 7 pieces. The […]
Continue reading »Nov15
Family Connections One of the major advantages of Smartick being available online is that we are accessible from anywhere in the world. We have faith in the future of South Africa that we decided to take on one of the problems prevalent in many countries: if you want to excel in the tech world, you need to […]
Continue reading »Nov13
Symbols are images that represent something. In general, symbols are determined by their context. In mathematics, symbols generally represent operations or relationships between numbers or values. In this week’s post we’re going to talk about mathematical symbols. There are a lot, so we’re just going to look at the most important. Addition + This is […]
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