Number Sense Blog

Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Today we are using number sense to square any number. In an earlier Mathnasium Maths Trick we looked at the patterns when squaring numbers ending in 0 or 5. For example, to find 452 we increase the d...

    Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Today we are calculating basic probability. Probability is the chance or likelihood that something will happen. To calculate the basic probability of something happening, we make a fraction o...

  Welcome to Mathnasium’s Maths Tricks series. Today we are squaring numbers ending in 0 or 5 by observing patterns and applying our number sense. To square a number, we multiply it by itself. Sometimes, this multiplication might be difficul...

For most children, the month of August will be spent living out the last weeks of the school summer holidays. The many hours of sunshine will leave your child feeling renewed and refreshed, so why not also take the time to sharpen their maths skil...

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...