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Frank Ho is a Canada certified math tewacher and also the founder of Ho Math and Chess learning center. Ho Math and Chess is the only international child franchise dedicated to teaching children math using math, chess, and puzzles integrated workbooks. More information on Ho Math and Chess innovatie workbooks, please visit www.mathandchess.com

How I Become a Better Math Tutor

After spending most of my life on consulting and teaching and tutoring for over 30 years, I felt a bit depressed last few months since I was puzzled on why some kids would not make progress despite I have tried so many different strategies and made efforts to teach them. As an educator, I have constantly remind myself not label children since their potential is perhaps unknown to us and just because they are not good at math it does not mean they are going to have the dead end in their life. Read

By: mathandchess | 28/06/2008 | K-12 Education

An Innovative and Fun Way of Teaching Math

I have observed that one of the main reasons that children hate math is they have not mastered the foundation of math, surprisingly the root of problems can be traced to the basics they learned in the elementary grades such as addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. When elementary students are asked why do we have math? Lots of these children can relate math to our daily life such as shopping, cooking, measuring, driving, time, shapes etc. and most of the time they think math is impo Read

By: mathandchess | 28/06/2008 | K-12 Education

How to Find a Good Vancouver Summer Program on Math

We have been running an math specialty learning center in Vancouver for over 10 years and also both of our children went to all kinds of summer programs in Vancouver so we would like to share our own experience on how to find a good summer math camp or math program offered by learning centers in Vancouver. Read

By: mathandchess | 28/06/2008 | K-12 Education