Aug31
Tables are perfect for organizing all kinds of information and for looking at results with more clarity. Using pictures makes it easier to comprehend tables faster and this is why pictograms help us interpret data more easily. At Smartick, we start children with pictograms at a young age so that they can learn how to […]
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A Texas teacher swearing off of homework for her students has gone viral and it seems to have incited more than the usual flurry of back-to-school discussions about whether homework helps or hinders kids. If you haven’t read the note from Brandy Young, a second-grade teacher working not far from Dallas-Fort Worth, she says that […]
Continue reading »Aug29
Welcome back to the Smartick blog! Do you know what equivalent fractions are? After reading this post with examples of equivalent fractions, you’ll be an expert. Equivalent fractions are fractions that represent the same amount, even though they may appear to be different. Let’s look at this example: Do you think these fractions represent the […]
Continue reading »Aug26
We’ve already seen some of the main geometric shapes in earlier posts. In this post, we’re going to look more in-depth at the circle. A circle is a geometrical shape that is made by drawing a curve that always has the same distance from the point that we refer to as the center. In just […]
Continue reading »Aug25
In this post, we are going to learn how to subtract. First things first, we are going to learn exactly what subtraction is. Subtraction is taking away a certain amount from another amount that we already have. Some examples of how to subtract: If we have 5 purple balls in a box, and we take […]
Continue reading »Aug24
It was the 80’s and many of my friends either had a crush on Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years or wanted to be Winnie Cooper. Today there’s a much wider variety of TV shows. TV is just better and certainly more plentiful than when we were kids. But our children will likely never know what […]
Continue reading »Aug22
Are you good at solving word problems? Solving word problems is a very important part of mathematics because with them you understand and practice what you have learned to do (adding, subtracting, multiplying…) Today we are going to look at multiplication word problems: how we recognize them, what to do to solve them…all of which […]
Continue reading »Aug19
What Is a Number? A number helps us represent and compare quantities without having the objects in front of us. Caesar and Gabriela will share a bag of candy: Caesar says he will eat the orange candies, so Gabriela will eat the green ones. Who will eat more candy? Let’s compare Caesar’s candy with Gabriela’s: […]
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In this post, we will do a review of the properties of multiplication and look at some of its applications. We begin with a brief summary of the properties of multiplication: Properties of Multiplication Commutative Property: The order of the factors does not change the product. 3 x 5 = 5 x 3 Associative Property: […]
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If there is anything certain in the debate about why there aren’t enough women in engineering and general sciences, it is that girls see too few role models in these fields. That is not to say that the availability of STEM role models is an issue that only affects girls (soccer stars and celebrities spend […]
Continue reading »Aug15
Hello everyone! This week I’m bringing you a post about how to multiply by a number ending with zeros. It’s super easy! In order to multiply by a number ending in zeros, we first need to multiply the number as if it didn’t have zeros, and after, we just add all of the zeros the […]
Continue reading »Aug12
Do you know how to solve an addition problem with regrouping? Do you know all the steps and why they’re important? Sometimes you learn how to solve math problems, but you don’t understand why you solve them in a particular way. This is why we are going to review how to solve an addition problem […]
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