How to overcome thinking traps, and what are they anyway? How we think can influence our mood and our study outcomes. But consciously manipulating our thoughts makes us dishonest with ourselves [...]
Parents can help their children with maths without the upset. Yes, you read that right. Yes, as parents you CAN help your children with maths … but not in ways you may think If you haven’t [...]
My child has dyscalculia. Now what? Children who had difficulty learning to read were often considered slow. But with awareness improving on dyslexia and its symptoms, teachers are now trained to [...]
How should you introduce maths concepts to your preschooler? The preschool age is an age where learning should be fun and based on experience rather than theory. There is no rush to get your [...]
6 Ways that Centred-based Tuition Tops Home-based It seems convenient to have a tutor come to your home to tutor your kids, but there is more to consider before you decide whether this is the way [...]
Monumental mathematics events We celebrate Time Travellers Day with a travel back through history to look at some monumental mathematics events. The foundations of geometry 3,000 years ago, the [...]
Why we split 1 hour into 60 minutes? Isn’t it easier to count in 10s than in 12s? Our way of splitting up the day into 24 hours, 1 hour into 60 minutes and one minute into 60 seconds is far [...]
When having “it your way”, it’s handy to know your fractions! Did you know that the average consumer’s poor knowledge and understanding of fractions caused A&W to lose [...]
Why is the number keypad different on the phone and the calculator? Have you ever noticed that the number layout on your mobile phone and your calculator is not the same? And if so, have you ever [...]
We’ve been teaching kids maths at Matrix Maths for years and we do come across some with varying degrees of math trauma (before we get them thinking differently, of course). Maths trauma is [...]
