Number Sense Blog

The Importance of STEM for Today’s Children
Apr 13, 2022
Our world is increasingly dependent on STEM, and today’s students need to acquire the knowledge and ingenuity to address its rapidly changing challenges. For example, we need environmental scientists to help make our world cleaner and safer, ...

Mathnasium #MathTricks: Fractions (Comparing Fractions Part 1)
Apr 6, 2022
Welcome to Mathnasium’s Math Tricks series. Kids commonly fear fractions when they encounter them. The goal is to group specific fractions and observe patterns. With these patterns, we can develop “tricks” to compare them. Today we are using ...

Ask Education: What is Infinity? (Part 2)
Mar 30, 2022
Our expert team of math educators and enthusiasts has spent over 40 years developing and refining the most powerful teaching methods and materials into the comprehensive, industry-leading Mathnasium Method™. These “Ask Education” features...

Ask Education: What is Infinity? (Part 1)
Mar 23, 2022
Our expert team of math educators and enthusiasts has spent over 40 years developing and refining the most powerful teaching methods and materials into the comprehensive, industry-leading Mathnasium Method™. These “Ask Education” feat...

Pi Day March 2022
Mar 14, 2022
It’s our favourite time of year again! March 14 marks another math holiday to celebrate the mathematical constant pi (π), reminding us that math is fun and applicable outside the math classroom.
Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference ...