Number Sense Blog

  Classes are in full swing and children are getting settled into a routine. Which means it’s a good time to create a plan to ensure that your child’s maths experience this year is positive, productive and rewarding. Here are some great ways to...

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...