Number Sense Blog

  If you’re wondering how your child is doing in math, you can start by asking them directly. This lets them know that their math progress is important to you, and it may begin a conversation that they didn’t know how to start. But even if they...

  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 are...

  Classes are in full swing and students are getting settled into a routine. Which means it’s a good time to create a plan to ensure that your child’s math experience this year is positive, productive and rewarding. Here are some great ways to ...

  Welcome to Mathnasium’s Math Tricks, series. Today we are using number sense to square any number. In an earlier Mathnasium Math Trick we looked at the patterns when squaring numbers ending in 0 or 5. For example, to find 452 we increase t...

  Welcome to Mathnasium’s Math Tricks series. Today we are calculating basic probability. Probability is the chance or likelihood that something will happen. To calculate the basic probability of something happening, we make a fraction of th...