Math Tutor Marijana

It's a new day, it's a new mathemagic trick for me 𝅘𝅥𝅮 You know this song, right? Ok, in case you don't know it you might want to check  the "Feeling Good" by singer Nina Simone, and don't forget to come back to reading this vlog 😀 So, were where we? Oh, yeah... The MatheMagic Trick. Long time no see eh? As I become avid reader, I bumped into this book called Secrets of Mental Math,  The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks  by Arthur Benjamin. I have to admit I was attracted by the title. Probably I thought I will find some super-speed-easy-strategies, but I just found that the books explains the math that I already know (probably that's why I'm teacher) However, what I found interesting over there were some MatheMagic tricks, which I will present here (of course with different numbers, don't wanna spoil the book if you decide to go for it) As every trick should begin, pick a partner for your trick. It can be ...

   In this vlog we gonna talk about (ok, I'm gonna talk about 😀) about the book:  I'm trying to Love Math, by  Bethany Barton. The book was released in 2019, by the publisher Viking.  If your kid or student is mostly yawning during the class or time dedicated to the math lessons this book is certainly for them.  Actually I have already recommended this book to a parent, so they can headed out to his child. I'm eager to see the results, hopefully will be any😀 Firstly, the cover of the book and the illustrations are so catchy. The letters are oversized and dynamic, they just scream "Read me!" The illustrations totally coincide with the content. And now the content. Page after page, the book tells us how to not let down the math.  The narrator is math-phobic, and  narrator tells what's on his mind. But each of his thoughts goes bounced back by the three-eyed purple ET. I'm not gonna be spoiling anything, but you will find out from which planet the ...

 Quoting the Bedtime Math author Laura Overdeck "we all know parents should read to their kids at bedtime, but what about math?" this book refers to the need for math related topics throughout the children's bed-time books.  As an educator, I could not agree more!  I have often seen parents, saying how they kids struggle with math, how they need help, and LISTEN CAREFULLY now, how they struggle as well with math, and they can not help them. Oh, ok, but you don't need to do their homework, you just need to sit with them when they work on their homework. Just by sitting with them you will bring a tremendous support, and often times that's the only thing that they need.  One crucial, key mistake that parents do is telling their kids, that they were struggling with math! Dear parents, please, I beg you just skip that talk.  I'm not saying to lie them by no chance, but just don't highlight your F's on math. Your kids are copying you (the evolution processes...

In the series of Books Bedtime Math, by author Laura Overdeck, we get familiar some fun facts 😀 There are four Bedtime Math books: Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late Bedtime Math: This Time It’s Personal Bedtime Math: The Truth Comes Out Bedtime Math: How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit on a Plane? I read two of them, for which I'm going to share my personal impression.      The first book that I read was the Bedtime Math: The Truth Comes Out. That books consists of 40 fun facts fitted into paragraph-long texts. Besides the facts, on the next side (one title covers two pages) you can see math-related questions on three levels of understanding math + the bonus question. The questions range from pre-K up to G7 maybe, although some bonus-problems are really tricky. I learned nice fun facts. The most interesting for me was the "Staring Contest", where the author is sharing the fact the camels have a 3 eyelids! Wow! Isn't that weird? 😀  To summarize, this book is fun-...