A Cool and Fun Way to Learn Math!
Ho Math and Chess is a specialty math after school learning centre headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Intrigued by the relationship between math and chess and after teaching chess to his son, Mr. Frank Ho, a Canadian certified math teacher, started Ho Math and Chess over 10 years ago. His long term devotion of research led him to create the world’s first integrated math and chess workbook for elementary students in 1997.
Ho Math and Chess has become a well-known and very reputable learning centre. In 2004, Frank started to franchise his teaching method and ideas worldwide. Today, Ho Math and Chess is the world leading research organization in the field of math and chess integrated teaching. Ho Math and Chess offers traditional school math plus emphasis on problem solving. Enriched students combine the teaching of math, problem solving, and chess/puzzles all in one class. This combination of math and chess class uses chess as a teaching tool to enhance a student's problem solving ability.
The mission of Ho Math and Chess is to challenge each student's potential to the fullest and to excel each student's problem-solving ability to the highest by providing a unique and enriched mathematics program. Our objectives are for students to take pride in their problem-solving abilities, to develop their independent thinking skills and to excel in their school mathematic grades. We also strive to maintain high achievers in mathematics.
Our teaching philosophy is to help every student tap into their potential and curiosity, using a variety of math and puzzle worksheets with problem-solving materials. These diversive workbooks are flexibly tailored to each student's learning needs. This tradition of emphasizing problem-solving skills and placing as much importance to them as computation, is the foundation of all Ho Math and Chess learning centres worldwide.
The goals of Ho Math and Chess integrated workbooks are:
- To improve math marks
- To develop problem solving ability and critical thinking ability
- To advance chess knowledge
- To boost brainpower
The slogan, "MATH + CHESS = A cool way to learn math," points to the fact that we teach MATH in a cool way. Ho Math and Chess Learning Centre emphasizes the MATH with the chess as being an enhancer to MATH. Math and chess are not placed equally on the same scale. Teaching time is spent mostly on math. Chess puzzles are only treated as "exercises" in mixed math and chess classes. The purpose and philosophy of the Ho Math and Chess Learning Centre in using chess is to help improve a student's math ability, not chess play ability. Although, there is a high possibility that a student could play chess better (by knowing more about chess).
Ho Math and Chess Headquarter website
Ho Math and Chess Burnaby is run by Dave Lo, an experienced instructor who has a Bachelor of Science degree (Honours program) from UBC and has completed the chess and mathematical chess puzzles training course at Ho Math and Chess training headquarter, Canada. Dave loves mathematics and describes math with adjectives such as "cool", "fun", "beautiful", and "elegant".