Frank Ho

This chess coach did give out worksheets but basically leave kids alone and do not encourage them to finish and did not go through the chess worksheet, and many kids left the worksheets on the tables when they left the classrooms. His presentation was poorly prepared and did not encourage dialogue between presenter and students.

The development of gifted math program at a commercial learning centre is very different from the enrichment or gifted program at regular day school. In this article we like to share our experience on how we at Ho Math and Chess develop or create our own gifted or enrichment program. When creating gifted math program at learning centre, learning centre must be aware the following important factors.

Frank Ho, founder of Ho Math and Chess based in Canada, is very pleased to announce that a new franchise from Nigeria has joined Ho Math and Chess team.

Some parents were surprised to learn that just because a child getting A in math at school does not mean this "A student" will automatically do well in SSAT (Secondary School Admission Test) or elementary math contests such as PIMS being held annually at UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada. As experienced math tutors and math, puzzles workbooks creators for over 16 years, we can appreciate why parents were perplexed as to why their children could not do well.

I have seen more and more young children, as young as 5 years old, showing signs of learning difficulties in math. Unfortunately many parents are not ware that this math learning math disability is genetic influenced and blame their children are "not smart". Some will think that their children just "did not concentrate", or simply are "too young" without realizing their children actually are trying very hard but just could not do it.

There are lots of myths around the issue of "Chinese are good at math" and it somewhat implies that the statement is genetic based. I decide to share my observations and experiences in tutoring math for over 15 years at Ho Math and Chess Learning Centre, Vancouver, Canada on why some (Canadian) Chinese students are good at math.

I have been involving in the research subjects of math and chess for over 15 years and have published 30 math and chess related workbooks math and over 70 articles written in the related fields of math and chess. All these articles can be searched on Internet.

After starting to pay attention to dyscalculia children, I noticed there are some general symptoms emerged from those children. There are many different views on how dyscalculia shall be defined. A neuroscientist might define it from the scanning result of a child’s brain, a psychologist might define it from the result of psychometric test, and a math educator might define it as a result of a math ability test.

Many math teachers will not let elementary students use calculators when they are in elementary schools, but not continue to use every opportunity to train students to continuously use the brain to calculate mentally has impede many students from getting A in math. The trouble is that may students contribute the reason of their calculation mistakes as “careless” without realizing the real reason is the lack of mental ability in calculating.

There are many “secrets” we can use to help our children in making math a successful subject, but what if I were allow to use only one secret? What would be the only one secret that I could use to making math a successful subject for my children? The only secret I would use would be to train my children’s thinking skill, not hand computation ability. Why I say that?