Judging from my own math tutoring experience, the method for teaching primary students is different from teaching secondary students. How to make math fun is a very important objective in tutoring primary students.
From a primary student's point of view, it is not the class lecture that makes math interesting; rather they are those fun and interesting math activities, which inspire them and keep their interest going. Working on math worksheets provides a good opportunity for math teacher to challenge children to excel and make them feel fun but most of today's math worksheets are not achieving this purpose.
Old format of organizing problems in top-down or left-right worksheets do not encourage children to develop their thinking skills other than for the sole purpose of learning basic computations.
Today's children are doing multi-task and are involving in all kinds of multi-media in their daily life, so the way of working on monotonic worksheets appears to be very dull and boring to them. Is it possible to come up with some worksheets, which are fun to work with and also they can improve children's math ability? One way of doing it is to use game-based and adventurous worksheets to spark children's curiosity in learning. Ho Math and Chess has invented math and chess integrated worksheets, so children are required to work through a few of interrelated logic relationships with built-in math concepts by analyzing problems to come up with an answer. Not only children improve their math skills, then can also use the skills learned in class to play chess and have fun.
To be a good elementary math tutor, one needs to let children work on some worksheets that are both fun and educational.
Frank Ho is the founder of the only international child education franchise dedicated to teaching children math through integrated math and chess. He invented the world's first math and chess integrated workbooks using Geometric Chess Language (Patents applied), Frankho Chess Mazes, and Ho Math and Chess Teaching Set. Math and chess worksheets make the math learning more fun and engaged, as a result, children become more observant in processing iniformation and become more alert when playing chess. In additional improving children's math marks, Ho Math and Chess workbooks are an excellent training tool for for improving problem solving skills and improving memory and brainpower.
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