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The Future Trend of Math Learning Center

The Future Trend of Math Learning Center

Frank Ho

Canada certified math teacher and founder of Ho Math and Chess

www.mathandchess.com

Will the way of math teaching change in the future? I think so, especially in the elementary schools. The idea of just giving traditional math worksheets to children for them to work on and expect them to do math well will become an increasingly unpopular method of teaching math. It is boring and it is not what children wanted and children had never given any choices as to what kinds of worksheets they wanted, they were simply told to work on them. In contrast, there were given choices when walking into a restaurant, shall the food for thoughts be any different? Why haven’t we math educators come up with some different styles of math worksheets, which children like or enjoy? The idea of mixing math with some kind of fun puzzles or games is the future of how to become a successful after-school math learning center. These worksheets can not be created just for the sake of children’s interest alone but must also serve the purpose of increasing children’s math ability as well. This trend is most important for children age 4 to 13 years old since they do not want to work on boring math worksheets.

A good math and game worksheet has the following characteristics:

• Unique math worksheets created by integrating math and games.
• Do not require any high-level math skills other than basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, factoring, logic, comparison, pattern recognization and visualization.
• Game knowledge required is very elementary.
• Do not require lots of teaching to know how to solve the problem yet it takes time to get answers right.
• It is good for young kids as well as adults to train their brains.

One good example of math and game integrated worksheets is Ho Math and Chess worksheets which combines Sudoku, chess and logic all in one.  

More details can be found at www.mathandchess.com

About the Author

Frank Ho, a Canadian certified math teacher, coined the learning centre term Math and Chess and he also founded the world’s first math and chess learning centre by creating the world’s first math and chess integrated workbooks for elementary students in Vancouver, Canada. He invented Frankho Symbolic Chess Language, intriguing Frankho Chess Maze, and also an unique new chess teaching set. He published math and chess teaching theoretic basis in a Canadian math journal. The USA Illinois research data has shown statistically significant that Ho Math and Chess teaching method increases children’s math marks and also improves children’s critical thinking skills. The Ho Math and Chess Teaching Set can improve children’s memory by playing half-blind chess. More details, please visit www.mathandchess.com.