Math Blog

It's no secret that online learning is incredibly popular the with home school community. For other families, many of them got a peek...

Do you hit a certain set of speed bumps or potholes every day? Maybe there's a particular gouge in the road that makes you cringe every...

Educational needs are as diverse as the students who require them—that is, profoundly diverse. Educational systems, on the contrary, are...

Some of us have kids who are quite strong in mathematics. Some will be naturally gifted—their brains just click when it comes to numbers....

We’ve all heard it before. Fractions, long division, scatter plots, y=mx+b, finding angles of parallelograms, HCF & LCM… “But when am I...

Do you learn by seeing, or by hearing? By reading, or by doing, perhaps? The leading theories today support that everyone learns across...

Think back to what you remember from grade school. Maybe the first things that come to mind are activities or friends or favourite...

As math tutors, one of our greatest joys is engendering confidence in our students. A confident student is one that feels responsible for...

We continuously emphasize at Mentorhood that every child is capable of achieving success in math studies—that math is learnable. We’ve...

Just how important is fun to the learning process? We believe very! As we discussed last time, ask any kid why they like their favourite...

Ask a student what their favourite subject is, or better yet, what their favourite activity is, and you'll get a variety of answers....

Ask many professional athletes and they will tell you that it was the hours spent one-on-one with a coach that set them apart from their...

How busy are you, on a scale of one to ten? Chances are, you won’t say less than five. It’s no secret that our pace of life these days is...

Mathematics is linear, black and white, determined. Right? Or is it limitless, mysterious, even majestic? While the answer to that...

There is little else that reveals a true mathematician in a recreational context quite like a puzzle. Whether it’s a brain teaser, a card...

We started exploring last month how we might approach problem solving in a way that’s worthy of a mathematician. Mathematicians tend to...

Have you ever met a mathematician? Have you wondered how they got to be where they are, how incredibly smart they must have to be in...

Online learning became a necessity for many of our children in the past few years. While it may no longer be the only option available to...

Welcome to the Code-iverse. Last month, we explored how inescapable technology is in our modern world. Nearly everywhere we turn for...

Extra! Extra! Code all about it! We’ve launched coding classes this summer where we can introduce your kids to the basics of coding in a...