Divisibility really just means 'can you divide a number by another. ' Throughout your math career, divisibilty makes its appearance over and over again. There's a great online tool ... Read More

The author of this book sure thinks you can! Although I'm a big advocate of early numeracy, teaching babies math may be a bit of a stretch, or let's ... Read More

Upon beginning our summer holidays, we're just so full of goals and things we want to accomplish. If improving your understanding of Algebra happens to be one of your goals, ... Read More

I've been somewhat of an advocate of video games in schools, however, I've encountered many nay-sayers along the way and they certainly have their valid points. But, when research provides ... Read More

One of the questions I often get at this time of year is whether or not a student should secure a math tutor over the summer. Good question! Most importantly, ... Read More

For those teachers who haven't yet started their summer holidays, here are some great menu math word problems to help kids with some real life authentic questions. After all, many ... Read More

This particular article intrigued me as I think of math as being about thinking and making connections, not about memorizing a set of procedures. Daniel Tammet, who is able to ... Read More

deMoivre is a famous French born mathematician from the 1700s and like many famous mathematicians, he lived in poverty. He was a friend of Isaac Newton and was famous for ... Read More

We tend to spend lots of time reading to our children and getting them to read to us or at least having them chime in from time to time on ... Read More

The Bernoulli Numbers were first discovered by swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli , a founding father of Calculus. A 300 year old formula for Bernoulli Numbers was just solved by a 16 ... Read More

There are many great mental math tricks that make math fun for kids. One of my favorites used to be learning the 9 times tables using your fingers: ... Read More