Bøger af Amanda Ho

We appreciate receiving your feedback. Please email your comments or suggestions to the author Frank Ho at fho1928@gmail.com. Here is a Chinese saying 十年磨一劍 (Taking ten years to sharpen a sword.), it has been almost 20 years since I published the first math contest workbook in 2002 This workbook is one-of-a-kind and world's first, I believe. In the past 20 years, I created many workbooks, and the reason is that I could not find suitable teaching materials to use at my after-school learning centre. Why I created another workbook this time? It is because there is a need for it. Let me explain. I created the following workbooks in the past: 1.Basics 2.Math IQ puzzles 3.Math and Chess Integrated workbooks using my invention of Symbolic Chess Language (SCL) 4.Math IQ Fitness 5.Integrated math, chess, and puzzles for the creative minds 6. Math Contest The trouble is, with every class, we have diversified students with different levels of math ability. Some of them could participate in the discussion. Some of them were always quiet. They do not get full benefits from the discussion style of teaching. So, I discovered the method of student collaboration and the teacher coaching method only makes sense when students are at the same level as the playfield. Otherwise, the star will always be a star and others tend to fade away with no ideas to discuss at all. How to handle this condition of teaching? I need a good arsenal of workbooks. For those who can do math contest quality problems, I give them Math Contest books; for those who need to boost their brain thinking skills, I give them Math IQ Fitness; for those who do not like play competitive chess, I give them chess and math puzzles; for those who are falling behind, I give them Basics workbooks. The result is many students end up with 4 to 6 workbooks on their desks. The assignment marking also is a nightmare. With the 2-hours of math teaching, I need a variety of teaching materials, much like the entertainment variety show. It would be boring if the singer continuously sings for 2-hours. The same reason for keeping up the interest in teaching math to elementary students, they need varieties of teaching contents, so I decided to combine some of my workbooks into one that is why this combined workbook is so huge, larger than most of the math workbooks you would find on the market.This workbook is designed to teach in very small class sizes, preferably 4 or 5 students, so that students could get lots of opportunities to discuss with the teacher. One-on-one teaching would be ideal because the student gets 100% attention constantly.This workbook can be used in enrichment class because it includes many contest quality problems and thus could also be used for preparing math contests. It includes many mathematical puzzles so that it could be used as a fun math teaching workbook. It includes many mixed computations and advanced word problems, so it could be used for chess clubs while teaching chess lessons. The use of this workbook is multi-faceted.The series of "Ultimate" workbooks were written after many years of teaching experience. Thus some articles in the workbooks referring to the teaching experience happened many years ago.

If you have any comments or problems on this workbook, please email them to fho1928@gmail.com.After over 20 years, 7 days a week of researching on creating of math, chess, and puzzles workbooks, Ho Math Chess has made a revolutionary innovation in creating math worksheets. This long, tremendous, and practical teaching experience have helped us develop and create this series of Ultimate Math Contest Preparation, Problem Solving, and Math IQ Puzzles workbooks. Ho Math Chess worksheets not only will raise students' marks; our worksheets also improve students' brain power. This is achieved through our proprietary and copyrighted Frankho ChessDoku, Frankho ChessMazes, and various puzzles. We have come a long way to reach today's progress; it has been hard work for our worksheets research team. We did not know how to answer when our students started to ask us when we will take some time off. We were very moved when our students requested to do our worksheets -- "Can I work on the worksheets which move numbers around?" Ho Math Chess has shown its marketing strength by its teaching philosophy - fun math and is backed up by its substance that is our unique and world first math, chess, and puzzles integrated math worksheets. In the process of producing this grade 4 and 5 workbooks, I noticed that integers operations and algebraic equation have been taught to grade 4 students in China. It is debatable if algebra should be taught so early especially in North America when so many students are struggling with basic computations at grade 4, but since this workbook is also aiming to sell in China and Asian countries, so we bring this to meet to the highest international standard. The students using this workbook could be trained to participate the international math contests, not just a local or any national math contest. Teachers or parents could decide if they want to teach algebra as an option, it is up to you. How were the Chinese classic model problems written? 中国古算题是如何㝍的?Chinese classic word problems are classified according to their models. Around the 4th century, Chinese (孙子算经) was fascinated by the discoveries of various linear models, but these models were not documented from the modern algebra's viewpoint. Today, we learn to appreciate why those class model problems were passed on from generations to generations and even were taught in some of the Chinese math textbooks. These classic model problems present opportunities for students to do the enriched math and learn difficult techniques on how to solve advanced word problems. They provide an opportunity to separate the wheat from the chaff.

We appreciate receiving your feedback. Please email your comments or suggestions to the author Frank Ho at fho1928@gmail.com.This workbook is aimed at math contests preparation for grades 1 and 2 Watch the video presentation of page 252 at https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsHbgq5Tkr4.There are not many math contests for grades 1 and 2. The main reason, I think, is the limited math computation ability of lower grades students. Many North American students will not learn multiplication until grade 3. Still, many Asian countries and areas learn times tables in grade 2, so there is one year of the difference of learning ahead in China. This workbook has brought its standard to meet the highest possible math curriculum in the world, so four operations of computation appear in this workbook. The earlier the students could master the skills of four basic operations, the more the students could explore many possibilities of word problem computation problems. With this in mind, how does the very popular Math Kangaroo Contest test the grade 1 and grade 2 students? How is it different from other math contests?Math Kangaroo contestThe Math Kangaroo grades 1 and 2 Contest almost does not include the direct math computation problems, which are very different from the math contests in China where direct computation problems could include skilful computation problems. I analyzed the most recent years of Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest grade 1 and 2 problems, and they start to emerge some characteristics and categories, so I include here to help students prepare for it. The lower grade math contest tends to skew to the more visual operation type of problems. The problems could be classified as follows. Many of the following problems are not typical problems that appeared in the books where you can buy from a bookstore because the problems in the math contests are much more complicated and involve many creativities.-Number relationships - mixed computation-Placing numbers in empty spaces-Logic problems-Geometry - Missing part of a figure or dividing a figure, Symmetry-Rotation-Counting figures and angles-Arrangement and combination-Pattern-Substitution method-Number puzzles including filling numbers into empty spacesIn 2015, I started to pay attention to Chinese after-school learning centre's teaching materials. I started to compare their teaching materials with our North American materials. At the same time, I researched the materials from Singapore, Taiwan, and puzzles from Japan and Britain. These analytical researches have led me to have an idea to combine all my published workbooks into one large workbook which includes math contest problems, IQ fitness, word problems, and chess and math integrated worksheets.This workbook is unique and one-of-a-kind. It also represents my idea of showcasing why math is fun to children and my ideas of using inquiry and conceptual teaching (探索及覌念教学法), then reinforced by procedural practices (步骤及題庫). I have used many of these worksheets on my students in my classes and witnessed their feedback. Most children do not want to do just computation problems for 2 hours; very few students like to work on math contest problems for 2 hours continuously, so puzzles and chess problems are fun for them for a change.

Learning Chess to Improve Math AnswersFor problem solving and math enrichmentHo Math Chess(TM) created the world's Learning Chess to Improve Math workbook for the elementary students. There are many pure math puzzles or chess puzzles workbooks on the market and how this workbook sets itself apart from others is it contains one-of-a-kind mathematical chess puzzles in which math concepts and chess knowledge are integrated. This workbook is a revolutionary breakthrough in learning math using chess as a teaching tool.Magic Chess + Math Puzzles is a fun and cool way of learning math and chess together. It improves children's IQ scores and problem-solving ability; develops children's logic and critical thinking skills.This workbook uses chess pieces, chess points and chessboard etc. to instil mathematical concepts related to the pattern, logic, geometry transformation, number theory and many, many other math concepts.Learning Chess to Improve Math is created with the ideas of learning math in multi-concept, multi-sensory, multi-direction and hands-on approach. It is an innovative product of supplementing elementary mathematics and it is a natural health food for improving brainpower.Some math concepts integrated into the workbook are: -Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division-Shapes, angles, symmetry, turns, slides, and solids-Counting numbers or graphics sequence -Logic-Venn diagrams-Set -Data management-Tree structure-Probability-Factors, multiples, fractions, percents-Permutations and combinations-Coordinates and ordered pairs