Number Sense Blog

Maths is not like some subjects, where you can cram for a test in one night. With its unique characteristic of being objective, number and formula-based, the level of difficulty keeps increasing with each school year and concepts continue to be bu...

Any successful entrepreneur can attest to the amount of drive, dedication, and tenacity it takes to start and grow a business. Staying late at the office or working on weekends often becomes the norm, not the exception. But working around the cloc...

  Studies show that children who are exposed to maths early on, for example through a school readiness program are more likely to do well in school, not only in maths but in other subjects as well1. And the benefits are likely to continue throu...

  As the days get colder and term 2 comes to a close, the winter school holidays can leave parents wondering what they can do to occupy their child's time, while providing educational and fun, family activities! We have compiled 9 exciting, mat...

What is it about Mathnasium that helps students find success in maths? The answer is simple: We teach for understanding! We are here to make maths, make sense. Instead of coaching students to rely on memorisation, rote learning, or calculators - o...

Regardless of age or skill level, there are almost always gaps in a child’s foundational understanding, and when addressed, success in maths is a breeze!  When we give assessments to children in our maths learning centres, we see that a high pr...

“Many people think of mathematics as one of the most logical, most impersonal branches of knowledge, yet it inspires more emotion than any other school subject” (Zaslavsky, 1994, p.5)   Maths anxiety has been said to affect over 90% of adult...

Using Maths to Improve Important Life Skills On the surface, maths may seem like it’s all about numbers and formulas. However, this versatile subject is about much more than just counting, adding, and subtracting. Discover why maths is more tha...

Maths is more than just addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. Most maths skills are so intuitive to adults that you might not even think of them as belonging to the same category as algebra or trigonometry. Kids start learning maths...

Who said Maths isn’t for the creative kids! Here at Mathnasium we know Maths is so much more than basic addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. So much of what we know about maths is second nature and you may not even think to put it ...

With 26 selective schools in Australia and more and more forming, parents often visit Mathnasium asking how we can give their child the best chance of passing an entrance exam to become accepted into a selective school. Questions range from what k...

With Halloween just around the corner, what should you do when you feel like maths is becoming a scary problem in your child’s education journey?   Noticing your child is starting to have a distaste for maths? Saying things like they hate math...

Discover some of the best reasons why a well-established business can withstand anything from a global pandemic, to a looming financial crisis. A franchise comes with the incredible support and pre-existing model of success to help you thrive and ...

Students often need more individual attention than their school can provide.   It’s a widely known fact that strong maths skills are vital for success in primary school, secondary school, university, and beyond. Unfortunately, this hard truth ...

How your child is taught is as important as what they are taught. Finding the right maths tutor for your child isn’t easy. You want high-level instruction from a qualified source who will help your child understand the concepts and feel confide...

Have you ever noticed that maths comes easy to some students while other students must work much, much harder to understand? Why is that? To find the answer, we must go to the source... the hippocampus. The hippocampus is a complex brain struct...

The holiday season is here — and so is our annual Holiday Gift Guide! This year, it’s all about games and puzzles that will bring endless hours of joy to the maths lovers in your life. We enlisted the help of Mathnasium Learning Centres around the...

  There are new changes to NAPLAN in 2023, meaning the test will be held in Term 1, rather than Term 2.  The National Assessment Program or NAP, has made changes to NAPLAN, making the tests earlier in the year than ever before. In additio...

Summer break is the best time for kids to kick back, play outside, and relax. However, all of the free time can lead to children experiencing a summer slide. A summer slide is the tendency for students to lose some of the knowledge and achievement...

It’s the time of year for vision boards, journaling and new years resolutions for yourself and your loved ones. We are often quick to make promises to ourselves of getting a promotion at work or losing a few kilos on the scales over the new year -...