Number Sense Blog

Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Today we are sharing a trick to find a quarter of any number. The word quarter means “four parts the same,” or “four equal parts.” To find a quarter of a number, we first cut the number in half and t...

Summer travels get us from point A to point B, but have you ever measured the distance traveled? Today’s maths activity helps you do just that by finding the differences between distances. And whether you find yourself traveling in a car, on a pla...

Mathnasium #MathsTricks: Fractions (Comparing Fractions Part 4)   Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Today we are comparing fractions using the concept of wholes and parts … in this case, finding the missing parts that make one who...

Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Today we are comparing fractions that have the same numerators but have different denominators (the total number of equal parts in the whole). When we compare fractions with the same numerators, we c...

Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Students are often taught that division is the opposite of multiplication, and therefore should rely on their multiplication facts to divide; this can be difficult when the number to divide by (the divi...