Political leaders, tech executives, and academics often claim that the U.S. is falling behind in math and science education. They cite poor test results, declining international rankings, and decreasing enrollment in the hard sciences. They urge us to improve our education system and to graduate more engineers and scientists to keep pace with countries such [...]
Math is a subject you either love or hate it seems. For those of you who love math and excel at it, it is your turn to be rewarded for what you do best. There are many scholarships available for math majors nationally and through state universities.Several scholarships are linked directly to a student’s performance [...]
What It IsThe JASON Project is headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Its mission is to inspire in students a life-long passion for learning in science, math, and technology through hands-on, real-world scientific discovery. It is named in the spirit of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts.For middle-grade students, JASON’s real-time, interdisciplinary science expeditions offer [...]
The word “mathematics” comes from the Greek word mathema, which means learning, study, science, and additionally came to have the narrower and more technical meaning “mathematical study”, even in Classical times. Mathematics or math is the body of knowledge centered on concepts of quantity, structure, space, and change, and also the academic discipline that studies [...]
Why Go To A Game-based Math Learning Center? Frank Ho Founder of Ho Math and ChessCanada certified math teacherwww.mathandchess.com  If Starbucks has revolutionized the idea on how coffee should be marketed then perhaps Frank Ho, a Canadian certified math teacher, has revolutionized the idea on how math should be taught especially at the learning center?Children already learned math [...]
I. Introduction“You can’t achieve what you can’t conceive.†-Author unknown The United States of America may lose its supremacy as a superpower if our children of today can’t grasp the technologies of tomorrow. The trend has already been set. High-level engineering jobs are currently being outsourced to other nations, not only because of cheaper costs, [...]
“Recently my stepdaughter was at the end of an English lesson and the teacher asked what she had next. When mathematics was mentioned, the teacher indicated that maths was a tough subject and not really what a person doing English should be studying.†This anecdote from Professor Peter Main, director of education and science at [...]
Students learn math concepts during their school life when they develop solid math foundation by learning various math skills. This learned math knowledge is extremely valuable as it is applied throughout your life in day to day routine activities like buying right sized shoes, purchasing groceries, setting an alarm, preparing food mixture, etc. All the [...]
How to Buy a Specialty Math Learning Center Franchise Frank Ho Ho Math and Chess Learning Center, Canada The future trend of learning center industry is to go specialty, the competition is so fierce among learning centers, new comers would have hard time to survive if the after-school learning center is not specialized, much like many customers now [...]
How to Buy Franchised Math Learning CenterFrank Ho, Amanda YangCanada certified math teacher and founder of Ho Math and Chesswww.mathandchess.comThe era of using the idea of “cut and paste†some math worksheets together to open a math learning center has long gone.  Children today living in a world which has a landslide difference from their [...]