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Ho Math and Chess Invents Network Computing for Elementary Students
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• Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Ho Math and Chess Invents

Network Computing for Elementary Students

 

Frank Ho

 

Ho Math and Chess Learning Centre

 

BC certified Teacher

Vancouver, BC, Canada

www.mathandchess.com

 

The future belongs to a generation who understands how to process information and the information might include digits, bytes, numbers, graphics, images, languages, symbols, equations etc.  How some or most of this different nature of information processing can be taught to kindergartners or primary students when they are learning arithmetic?

 

These worksheets are created without interrelations to each other. This kind of       isolated information processing is no longer reflecting the real world the young generation is facing today or they will be living in the future.

 

The computing world children are facing today is a much like a rich tapestry, where a diversified fabrics and colours are integrated. Children today are absorbing not just numbers but an array of information like image, sound, music, symbols, spatial information, or even abstract ideas all bundled together and delivered through many types of media. Children today are not happy just working on pure number drill without any other stimulus or motivator.  Realizing the importance of having fun while learning, Ho math and Chess has been embarked on a important teaching philosophy that is to integrate chess into math worksheets so that children can learn math while having fun.

 

Started out as a math and chess integrated learning center, Ho Math and Chess has further advanced its teaching philosophy into Network Computing that is to create a special synergetic effect by integrating arithmetic basics computing, chess, mazes, and information processing all in one worksheet. This is accomplished through its own proprietary technologies (patents pending) such as Geometry Chess Symbol, Frankho Chess Mazes, and a brand new chess training set.

 

With this new invention of Ho Math and Chess Network Computing worksheets, a child is acting as a data warehouse manager and sorts data through a variety of tools namely chess, symbols, spatial relation, logic, comparison, tables, patterns, mazes, computing etc. by networking all kinds of information together. Only when children have successfully followed through instructions (SCL) and, as a result, created a question themselves, can a solution be found at last.

 

In Network computing worksheets, the questions are not written out for children but must be mined (after children observing how data is moving) through data warehouse (mazes), and answers must be computed by following a series of spatial relations and then analyzed using logic to reach a conclusion.

 

Ho Math and Chess Network Computing trains children not only their basic computing ability but also train them to be an astute data warehouse manager or an excellent data miner by developing their problem solving ability and critical thinking skills.

 

Amanda is a very experienced math teacher with B.Sc degree. Her specialty is in teaching math and chess integrated teaching as well as the integrated teaching of science and math.
www.mathandchess.com

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How is Ho Math and Chess different from others
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• Friday, August 06th, 2010
How is Ho Math and Chess different from others?    

Frank Ho, Amanda Ho

Teachers at Ho Math and Chess

 

www.mathandchess.com

 

 

There are many different kinds of math learning centers but by and large they can be classified as two categories according to their functionalities. Some created for the purpose of helping students to increase their school math marks and others are created for boosting testing results. Ho Math and Chess founded by Mr. Frank Ho, a Canadian certified math teacher, had a background story to tell on how Ho Math and Chess got started. It was not initially created for increasing students’ school marks, nor was created for preparing for entrance exams such as SSAT, SAT etc.

Ho Math and Chess was created because Frank’s son was interested in chess at age 5 and Frank got involved in teaching his own son chess. Ho Math and Chess was started because Frank’s personal interest and research in math and chess integrated subjects. Amanda later joined Frank and the Ho Math and Chess research team has created many world’s first math and chess integrated workbooks and also a new chess teaching set by using the patented technology. 

How Ho Math and Chess is different from others can be summarized as follows. 

 

Ho Math and Chess

Others

Has a founding philosophy, culture, and story to tell.

yes

no

Taught own kids used the same teaching method.

yes

no

Has new, innovative, and patented teaching method.

yes

no

Can increase school math marks

yes

yes

Can prepare for entrance tests

yes

yes

Created teaching materials using patented technology

yes

no

Integrate chess into teaching

yes

no

Integrate puzzles into teaching

yes

no

Learning can boost IQ scores

yes

Not sure

Chess can be played as a life-time hobby

yes

no

Proven results on the teaching method.

yes

Not sure

Integrate computation, chess, word problem, puzzles all in one worksheet using patented technology

yes

no

 

Amanda is a very experienced math teacher with B.Sc degree. Her specialty is in teaching math and chess integrated teaching as well as the integrated teaching of science and math.

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Why Ho Math and Chess integrated workbook works more effectively
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• Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Why Ho Math and Chess integrated workbook works more effectively?

 

Frank Ho

 Founder of Ho Math and Chess (www.mathandchess.com)

It is my belief that integrated math and chess workbook will work more effectively to stimulate one’s brain than by playing just chess alone.

 

As you can see form the article below, the author Dr. He discovered that chess strategy more heavily relies on spatial processing than on logic and computational skills.

 

The second article indicates that different parts of brain is stimulated when playing chess.

 

Ho Math and Chess integrates chess into math thus children actually not only uses the parts of brain while playing chess, they also use the parts of brain to do math computation and work on logic problems using chess diagrams. The effect of working Ho Math and Chess integrated workbooks is to stimulate many different parts of brain in multiple ways.

 

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Chess: Not All About Logic?

Spatial processing may be the key to a good game. Chess is not necessarily a game reserved for people with IQ scores on par with Einstein. In fact, chess strategy may rely more heavily on spatial processing than on logic and computational skills.

Chess is not necessarily a game reserved for people with IQ scores on par with Einstein. In fact, chess strategy may rely more heavily on spatial processing than on logic and computational skills. Researchers at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of novice players during a match and found a flurry of activity in the parietal and occipital lobes, areas not associated with general intelligence.

"It's not what we were expecting," says Sheng He, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology. The findings, published in Cognitive Brain Research, have implications beyond castling and checkmate. The activity observed in the parietal lobe suggests that this area may be capable of handling complex spatial functions, such as the interaction of memory and incoming spatial information.

"The parietal lobe may have more functions than we previously suspected," says He. And inactivity in another area -- the left lateral frontal lobe -- raises questions about the role of general intelligence in high-level cognition and problem solving.

 Let me start with this actual PET scan. PET scans allow scientists to identify specific brain areas that are activated bydifferent tasks. Here researchers have used PET scans to identify the brain areas stimulated in the complex mental activities during a chess game (Nichelli and others, 1994). In scan (a), areas at the back of the brain, where visual information is processed, are most active when a player distinguishes between black and white chess pieces. In (b), the lower middle region of the brain is more active when a player is determining if a particular chess piece can capture another piece.*

 *Don Hockenbury and Sandra Hockenbury, Psychology, New York: Worth Publishers, 1997, p.68.

 

Amanda is a very experienced math teacher with B.Sc degree. Her specialty is in teaching math and chess integrated teaching as well as the integrated teaching of science and math.

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Math and Chess workbooks help child diagnosed with ADHD ADD or dyslexia
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• Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Math and Chess workbooks help child diagnosed with ADHD, ADD or dyslexia

Frank Ho

Founder of Ho Math and Chess

www.mathandchess.com

Chess has been known to be an useful tool in raising math marks and problem-solving skills.

At Ho Math and Chess, we have created a very unique and scientific proven teaching method that is to teach math and chess at the same time by using a truly math and chess integrated workbooks.

This set of workbooks is to raise children's math ability by taking the boredom out of doing repetitive math drills and also foster a fun yet educational environment. Children learn best while having fun. This is an incredible chess workbook for children.

Our own anecdotal evidence suggests that our unique math and chess integrated workbooks can be an effective teaching method in helping child diagnosed with ADHD or ADD or child with learning difficulties such as dyslexia. The results are most significant when the child is placed in an education environment of one-on-one tutoring. 

Many findings have supported that pupils who find it hard to maintain concentration on a single activity are able to improve this focus on playing chess.

Ho Math and Chess has invented a series of workbooks which truly combines math and chess and a child can learn math using chess knowledge on a variety of puzzle-like problems. These type of problems includes visual image (not just pure numbers), chess symbols, abstract chess values and chess directions and all these are stimuli to kids and keep their interests high while working on computational problems. This also gives children ample opportunities to think visually. Most of the time, the computational questions themselves are not written for children to work on immediately but for children to "create" themselves and these questions have to be actually "hunted" by following directions and chidren love the hunt (puzzles).

Ho Math and Chess workbooks magically keep children's attention span longer than a typical math workbook could. Children become more engaged and focused when working on math and chess integrated workbooks than on traditional computation workbooks.

By providing math and chess truly integrated workbooks, Ho Math and Chess allows children playing chess while working on math in a fun and also educational setting. The end results are children get to strengthen their working memory and improve their problem solving ability. Doing something children like, they are able to concentrate and improve their ability to focus and allow themselves to immerse in the activity longer.

Ho Math and Chess truly integrated workbooks may be just one of the very effective teaching model for a child with problems of ADHD, ADD, or dyslexia.

Amanda is a very experienced math teacher with B.Sc degree. Her specialty is in teaching math and chess integrated teaching as well as the integrated teaching of science and math.

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How to Use Chess to Improve Math
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• Wednesday, July 07th, 2010

How to Use Chess to Improve Math

 

Frank Ho

 

Ho Math and Chess Learning Centre

 

BC certified Teacher

Vancouver, BC, Canada

www.mathandchess.com

 

Some math educators seem to feel math problems can be divided into 2 parts, one is pure computation and the other is problem solving - this claim is evident by examining the textbooks used in schools.  When looking at the worksheets offered for elementary students, this seems to be very logic since there is “nothing” could be related to numbers used in the computational problems to enhance thinking ability. How can computation and thinking type of problem be included in the traditional  computation problems such as 2 + 3? One of the answers is to integrate chess into math.

 

To integrate chess into math curriculum does not mean math and chess are taught under the same roof and in the same classroom. Chess has to be logically and reasonably integrated into math material by using the special characteristics of chess. Ho Math and Chess invented a patent applied Symbol Chess Language so chess and math are successfully integrated together.  

 

By integrating chess into math problem, a simple computation problem such as 2 + 3 becomes an interesting and puzzle-like problem, children have to analyze chess images using spatial relation by analyzing tables, symbols, and observe patterns using tables or list to convert symbols into numbers and only at this stage, can children come up with an answer.  Children feel this is much fun and thrilled than traditional worksheets. This process requires children to use both left and right brains so Ho Math and Chess integrated worksheets are a total brain activities. The final result is to improve their learning in math, thinking and creativity.  Ho Math and Chess can achieve this purpose by using its own proprietary intellectual products: Geometry Chess Language, Frankho Chess Maze, Image numbers, and Ho Math and Chess Teaching Set.

 

The Ho Math and Chess Teaching Set can teach children as young as 4 years old. In addition to learning chess, the additional benefit is to improve children’s memory since it allows children to play half-blind chess in such a way that the other play’s chess pieces are not seen without blind folding players’ eyes.

 

All these products are world’s first. Math and chess integrated program can improve math, problem solving ability, advance chess knowledge and also improve memory.

Frank Ho, a Canadian certified math teacher, coined the learning centre term Math and Chess and he also founded the world's first math and chess learning centre by creating the world's first math and chess integrated workbooks for elementary students in Vancouver, Canada. He invented Frankho Symbolic Chess Language, intriguing Frankho Chess Maze, and also an unique new chess teaching set. He published math and chess teaching theoretic basis in a Canadian math journal. The USA Illinois research data has shown statistically significant that Ho Math and Chess teaching method increases children's math marks and also improves children's critical thinking skills. The Ho Math and Chess Teaching Set can improve children's memory by playing half-blind chess. More details, please visit www.mathandchess.com.

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