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  With the end of the school year approaching, students tend to disengage from their studies. You might also find they are not receiving enough schoolwork to keep them busy as the excitement for summer builds. It's important that children conti...

  Summer is the time for visiting friends, BBQs, days at the beach and … maths? That’s right! It’s important for students to make maths a part of their summer so they don’t lose what they’ve learned during the school year. On average, children ...

  Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Today we are finding the percentage amount of any number. To calculate the percentage of a number, we use the following steps: Estimate the answer by rounding the number to the nearest mul...

  Did you know that children typically lose 2-3 months of maths skills over the summer months? It’s called the summer slide, and it’s a concern for several reasons. Not only will a child return to school unprepared to learn new material, but th...

  About MathsTips: These tips give parents ideas for maths exercises that will develop their child's maths abilities. Just as you should read with your child, you should do maths with them as well, using natural language that makes sense to a c...

  Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Today we are finding the value of the whole, given the value of a fractional part in a Wholes and Parts problem. In an earlier Mathnasium Maths Trick we defined the numerator and denominator of ...

  Here at Mathnasium, we love pi (π) and we celebrate it BIG every year on the 14th March (3/14). But do you know there is an alternative mathematical constant that is just as (if not more) important to geometric and trigonometric calculations?...

  About Maths Tips: These tips give parents ideas for maths exercises that will develop their child’s maths abilities. Just as you should read with your child, you should do maths with them as well, using natural language that makes sense to a ...

  Combination lock puzzles have become popular ways to use detective skills in number problems! These games provide clues for you to work out the codes (or, combinations of numbers) that successfully open a lock. And today, we’re sharing our Ma...

  We can sometimes solve “simple” linear equations using inspection, particularly when the answer is an integer. But for some equations, it may be difficult to solve for x mentally, especially when the answer is a proper fraction or a mixed ...

Our expert team of maths educators and enthusiasts has spent over 40 years developing and refining the most powerful teaching methods and materials into the comprehensive, industry-leading Mathnasium Method™. These “Ask Education” features are a...

  About Maths Tips: These tips give parents ideas for maths exercises that will develop their child’s maths abilities. Just as you should read with your child, you should practice maths with them as well, using natural language that makes sense...

    6 Ways To Help Your Child Get Off To A Good Start This September. While no one can predict exactly what the new school year will bring, a well-prepared student will have the best chance of achieving success in the classroom. Here ar...

  Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Today we are finding the value of the what part, in a Wholes and Parts problem. In a Wholes and Parts problem, sometimes we have the whole and the given part, and we need to find the what part. ...

    Getting help outside the classroom does more than boost their maths skills. Now that the school year is underway, your child probably has a good sense of how they’re doing in maths. But it’s also important to consider how they’re ...