What is Ho Math

What is Ho Math?2.    Chess and IQ mathematical chess puzzles
 3.    Word problems
Frank Ho4.    IQ Puzzles
 5.    Math Contests problems
BC certified math teacher 
 Why Ho Math is unique and effective?
Founder of Ho Math and Chess Learning Centre, 
Vancouver, BC, CanadaHo Math is unique in its teaching philosophy and
 teaching method. To create the worksheets for the
Ho Math is a special concept and game-based mathabove 5 major components, Ho Math and Chess™
teaching method especially designed for elementaryuses proprietary, copyrighted and patent applied
students (from kindergarten to grade 7). It wasintellectual properties such as Geometry Chess
invented in Canada by a Canadian math teacherSymbols, Frankho Chess Mazes, Ho Math and Chess
Frank Ho.Teaching Set, and Universal Word problem Solving
 Tool.
How Ho Math was invented? 
 Ho Math is created based on founder Frank’s
Below is a short description by Mr. Frank Ho.belief that math learning must be effective and fun.
  Ho Math is fun to work with and also it improves
When I was a teenager, I went to a few learningchildren’s math marks. It also improves
centers including general purpose and some specialtychildren’s brainpower and at the same time,
learning centers (like English only) and also went tochildren also learn a social game, which will last life
my teacher’s home for preparing for junior hightime. Chess is competitive and also a social game, it
entrance examination. The purpose of these learningconnects people and provides chance for improving
centers is for one simple reason that is to cramsocial skills and improves children’s critical thinking
students with exam questions so students can getskills. Chess is one of the best education
higher marks, there is no other real mission. None ofmanipulatives.
these learning centers expanded or made to the 
international stage since they were geared to 
prepare for local exams and they exist or dieHow Ho Math worksheets differ from others?
depending on education policy in the area. 
 Ho Math is a math teaching method invented by a
In recollection, I realized how wrong it was to learnCanadian math teacher Frank Ho. Frank intrigued by
something for the sole purpose to get better inthe relationships between math and chess after
exam, although I agree the marks are important andteaching his son chess started Vancouver Ho Math
some employers only recognize marks for newand Chess™ tutoring & learning center over 10
graduates. But learning for the purpose of gettingyears ago. His long-term devotion of research has led
high marks without training to think is definitelyhis son to become a FIDE chess master and also
wrong.the publications of over 20 math and
 chess workbooks for children. The trademarked
There are still many learning centers out there justname "Ho Math and Chess " reveals part of its
mainly advocating kids to do computation orhistory of "Ho Math and Chess" and its tradition.
preparing for exams etc.  Their teaching style and 
way of running business is still the same as theWorking on mathematical chess puzzles is an
learning centers I went when I was young, nothingexcellent way of improving problem-solving ability. By
much was changed. Since I realized the way of mycombining chess and math problems together, Frank
learning was wrong when I grew old, I never wantedwrote the world's first math and chess integrated
to teach my own kids the way learning centers wereelementary student workbook for children.
teaching me when I was young. I never sent my 
own kids to any learning centers until I set up myFrank also invented Geometry Chess symbols and
own learning center.also Ho Math and Chess Teaching Set so that children
 as young as 4-year old can learn chess much easier
I never had a mind to start a supplemental educationthan using the traditional 3-D chess set. Using
business except by coincidence. When my son wasGeometry Chess Symbol, Frank created the
about 6 years old, he asked me what was the useworld’s first and copyrighted Frankho Chess
of a chess set, which I left in the living room. It wasMazes.
given to me as a gift by my former colleagues at 
the Faculty of Education when I quit working at theThe Illinois (USA) data has shown that Ho teaching
University of British Columbia. My son’s curiositymethod is statistically significant in raising students'
got me thinking on how to “educate” him somath marks.
he could learn chess and this led me to investigate on 
how math and chess are related. My research andToday, Ho Math and Chess ™ is an international
study resulted in my invention of Geometry Chessbrand name in franchised math specialty learning
Symbols.  When my son’s classmates’centre business. Ho Math and Chess ™ is the
parents told me that they would like to enroll in myleader in the areas of research, marketing, and
tutoring classes, I knew I did not want to set up ateaching integrated chess and math to elementary
learning center for the purpose of just crammingstudents.
school stuff and for just getting higher marks. So I 
had the idea of using chess as a tool to train theirHo Math and Chess ™ learning center is the only
critical thinking skills.supplemental education franchise dedicated to
 teaching children math using math and chess
After my over 10 years of devotion in research andintegrated workbooks. It is now the world
study the interrelation of math and chess and I foundlargest franchised scholastic math and
out that my teaching method of integrating math andchess tutoring organization with worldwide locations
chess in deed generates more interests in math forto serve including offices in Vancouver, Canada. Mr.
children than the traditional worksheets.Frank Ho invented the unique Math and Chess
 teaching method in 1995. Today when people talk
I found out that some kids’ progress were veryabout Math and Chess, they think about the leading
slow or even stagnant, despite how hard I explainedresearch organization in this highly specialized field -
concepts or tried to teach them again and again. IHo Math and Chess. Ho Math and Chess and Math
discovered one major contributing factor, whichand Chess are synonyms. 
caused the problem and this promoted me change 
the way I teach. I discovered that the weak mathHo Math and Chess offers one-of-its-kind and unique
students tends to not like the IQ type of questions5 subjects in 1 program, namely, math, IQ chess, IQ
and the condition is reversed for strong mathpuzzles, and word problems, and math contests
students under the condition these questions do notproblems with paying only one fee.
even require any math knowledge other than 
analyzing, comparing, sorting, or collating. This tells meWhat are the purposes of Ho Math?
that the weak math students perhaps have a 
problem that is their brains are not trained or fit forThe purposes of Ho Math teaching method are to:
doing math problems (and thus they do not want to 
do much math problems.)  Because of this·       Raise math marks.
discovery, today Ho Math program consists of 5·       Improve critical thinking ability.
major components:·       Improve chess ability.
 ·       Improve brainpower.
1.    School math