3 Reasons Why Students Can’t Do Math Well

3 reasons why students can’t do math welltraining while they were young other than their ability
Frank Hodeficiency in basic math. They lack of training in the
BC certified math teacherfollowing areas:
Founder of Ho Math and Chess Learning Centre,1. Pattern: They have some difficulty in seeing
Vancouver, BC, Canadapatterns.
I was curious to find out why a child who is already2. Visualization: They have difficulty to see the
grade 5 but could not do basic multiplication wellrelationship between columns or rows or table to
despite how I explained to him in concepts. I wastable or from numbers to graphics and vice versa.
equally at a loss to try to find out why a grade 103. Abstract: They seem to have difficulty to grasp
student who could only “see” how a problemabstract idea. Any problem requires students to do a
can be done after I explained three times or writeconversion using abstract idea then they seem to run
the solutions step by step and also allowed him tointo problems.
stop me at every step whenever it was necessary.To take care of these above-mentioned problems,
In this case, I know the grade-10 student neverHo Math and Chess has created a series of
100% understood the math instruction in his dayworkbooks to train children in the areas of patterns,
school because he could not stop his teacher’ssymbols, and relationship using visualization.
instructions just for him on every computation step.The way we do it is to use our patent applied
For example, When factoring (x square – yGeometry Chess Symbols and have created a series
square), the student just could not see how thisof one-of-its-kind workbooks such as iq puzzles,
problem can be done when the problem changes toFrankho chess mazes, iq mathematical chess puzzles,
(x + 1)square – (y+1)square.word problems, and math contests to strongly
After I did my own observations and thinking, Iincrease their brainpower in number intelligence.
found out these problems have lots to do their math