Disliking numbers and Math as a subject has become a stereotype. It is assumed that learners in school hate Math and find it uninteresting to grasp concepts of algebra & geometry. However, some children are gifted with analytical thinking, and they actually enjoy ‘solving problems’ and dealing with ‘numbers’. A recent survey undertaken amongst 1000 students concluded than 46% of kids love Math. Isn’t this a positive reinforcement! More & more students are actually gaining interest in the subject thanks to the interesting teaching methodologies & play-way methods introduced via Math learning apps. Mathseeds is one such interesting platform chosen by moms and teachers across the world, and also in the Middle East countries such as; GCC including UAE, to help kids make ‘Math their best friend.’

Students who have a liking for the subject, may further pursue their higher studies; BSc in Mathematics and Statistics and go on to find suitable jobs in this domain. Here are a few career opportunities for ‘Math lovers.’

Statisticians

The world will need to produce 50% more food by the year 2050 to feed a population of 9 billion people. Where did this figure come from and who projected this? Well that’s the job of statisticians. Experts analyze past data and patterns by forming pie charts & graphs and then make a prediction about the future trend by working out a formula. This is majorly what statisticians do. Every field employs statisticians, be it an insurance agency who wants to get a probability of the number of ‘policy claims’ that will come up in the next year or healthcare industry who want to understand the rise in ‘cancer patients’ and research on a medical cure for it.

Mathematicians

Did you know Math can be used to solve real world problems? If there were no Math geniuses, the world would perhaps not be a ‘better place to be in’ with each progressive year. Applied Mathematicians are people who use ‘math models’, ‘theories’ and ‘formula’ appropriate to business, politics, and engineering to invent a new way of working or improve efficiency or even invent something big. Theoretical Mathematicians on the other hand, develop new models in Math, which can be used as a theorem by the future generations to solve number problems with more precision. Those inclined towards the subject can also become Math professors in colleges.

Economist

Economists collect data through surveys and samples on the ‘issue’ or ‘topic’ they are working on and then prepare charts to form forecasts for the economic well-being of the community. Economists basically study how people are using resources available to them; such as; land, labor, machine, etc. and thereby prepare a case study on the supply & demand of the same. This information is used to increase/decrease costs, manipulate exchange rates, and decide terms of contract for businesses. Government bodies hire economists to gain authentic advice on market trends and alleviate economic problems such as; unemployment, poverty, and production rate.

Aerospace Engineer

If your child is excited about spacecrafts, rockets and has an inclination towards ‘space travel’, then Aerospace Engineering could be a good career option. Aerospace Engineers develop new technologies to enhance the efficiency of spacecrafts and get involved in testing the machines, before they are launched into space. The Engineer puts certain Math theories to work while designing the body and the spacecraft’s components, so that astronauts can comfortably travel to the ‘moon and back’ and bring back interesting ‘pictures’ from space.

These are just a career options that we listed out, however believe us, the possibilities are endless. Other job prospects for Mathematically inclined persons include; Actuary Services, Financial Analyst, Astronomer, Data Analyst, Computer Programmer, amongst many more.

So next time your kiddo tells you he wants to be a ‘Neuropsychologist’ which also required good understanding of numbers, encourage him to make the most of the Mathseeds app and gain better understanding of concepts to outshine others in their Dubai International IB School.

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The beginnings of savings starts with the use of piggy banks. By teaching kids as early as 3-years-old, they can grow up to be financially prepared and investment savvy. Kids need to learn the concept of saving, spending, donating, and investing. They must be encouraged to have good habits and take small steps now, to secure a future of being ‘money wise’.

Our goal should be to raise kids as grownups. If kids learn how to invest like millionaires by the age of 21, it is likely that they will have learned good financial habits to make it happen soon. Tell your kids about the benefits of investment and build their interest in investment as it is very significant to make them prudent investors. Familiarize them with the concepts of saving and investment at a young age, as it is the right time so that they will be able to make the right and profitable choices in the future!

Here’s good news for parents, TechnoKids is an amazing company that helps develop and polish investment skills in kids so the people in GCC, Dubai, UAE, and the Middle East can access this company and get different lesson plans and courses related to stock market games for the kids.

Characteristics and Capabilities

TechnoKids is a combination of technology projects. It consists of interesting computer activities for kids of all age groups. TechnoKids uses detailed computer lessons and resources to teach the students. TechnoKids have projects with computer lesson plans for kids from Kindergarten to Grade 12.

Every project has a teacher guide for curriculum planning, a student workbook with handbooks to promote independence, and resources to reinforce learning. Following are the projects offered by TechnoKids in GCC, Dubai, UAE, and the Middle East:

• Complete Collection
• TechnoWonderland
• TechnoArcade
• TechnoToon
• TechnoRestaurant
• TechnoBudget

These different projects offered by TechnoKids helps in building new and interesting investment abilities in kids.

Significant Tips to Teach Kids to Become Prudent Investors

Teach them the basics from saving to investment

At a very young age, we start to teach our kids about savings and their benefits for the future. We tell our kids to save a little amount of their pocket money in their piggy banks so that they can use them later, similarly telling them about the perks of investments we can make our kids prudent investors. It is one of the best yet fail-proof tips to teach kids about investments.

Don’t Forget Giving

The greatest investors like Warren Buffett believe in giving cash gifts. When you give cash gifts to your kids, they learn to save some of that in the bank and to donate some of it to charity before spending.

Teach them stories

All kids love to listen to stories so you can tell them about interesting investment ideas and stories and build their interest in investments. Share your investment plan with them and tell them why you are and the benefits you will enjoy later. Invent a character ‘Mr. Money Saver’ and glorify his major savings vs. prudent spending, so that children realize in difficult times ‘money’ that was saved, came handy.

Know About your child’s learning style

Every child is different in their learning style. Being a parent, you know best about your child’s learning style and interests, so be a kid with your kids and teach them in their way. According to your kid’s interest, you can use different methods and sources such as pictures, smartphones, videos, etc.

TechnoKids helps in teaching kids to become prudent investors and offers great projects, lesson plans, and courses to kids. It is an amazing opportunity for people living in GCC, Dubai, UAE, and the Middle East

TechnoInvestor:

An Innovative Stock Market Game

TechnoInvestor by TechnoKids is an interesting project which is an innovative stock market game.

This project consists of the following features:

• Teacher Guide
• Student Workbook
• Customizable Resources
• Assessment Tools
• Extension Activities
• Sample Files
• Templates
• Parent Letters
• Certificates

TechnoInvestor Will Teach the Following Stock Marketing Skills to The Students:

Innovative Stock Market Game

It teaches advanced spreadsheet skills to the kids as they play the role of stockbrokers in the game. In the game, the kids form the investment teams to buy and sell fictitious stock- which helps them learn the concept of marketing. In this game, kids use Excel to track the portfolio, make decisions, add conditional formatting, graph earnings, and prepare reports as investors.

Foster Financial Literacy

It helps in relating mathematics to real-world simulation and builds students’ interests through interesting and engaging tasks.

Boosts Collaboration

This game offers four trading sessions to the students. They start it by reading the company’s newsletters and profiles that update them about market events that impact stock companies. In groups, students make decisions to buy and sell stock. Then they record trades individually.

There are many other skills for the kids. This project will enhance and polish the knowledge of students on the stock market, the basics of buying and selling, how to stay updated about the market events, the use of Excel, word, and spreadsheets in stocks, and much more.

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What is an Angle

Angles in Geometric expression can be defined as the figure formed when two ‘rays’ meet at a common point. The common point is called as the ‘node’ or ‘vertex’ and the two rays are called as arms of the angle. Angle is denoted by the symbol ‘∠’.

Degrees of an Angle

Angle is measured in ‘degrees’ with the help of a protractor. The measure of an angle and its degree is determined by the rotation of the ‘rays’. Children are initially introduced to degrees 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, 180°, 360° which they learn to measure with the help of a protractor.

Types of Angles

There are six types of angles in geometry which are as follows:

Acute Angle

Is formulated when the angle is between 0° to 90°

Obtuse Angle:

When the angle is more than 90° and up to 180°

Right Angle

This angle is exactly equal to 90° and the ray rises up vertically

Reflex Angle

The angle which is greater than 180° and less than 360°

Straight Angle

An angle exactly equal to 180° forms a straight line & is called a straight angle

Full Rotation

The complete rotation of angle equal to 360° degrees and makes a circle

Interesting Lesson Plans for Kids

Measure the Angles in the Picture

Draw or print a picture of an animal/object and ask students to mark out the different angles that they observe. Students will discover more than one angles in the image and they must use a highlighter to mark it and identify whether it is an acute, obtuse, reflex, or right angle. They can even measure the degree with the help of a protractor.

Tape It: Shape It

Use a floor marking tape and make patterns on the classroom floor with it. The free-hand patterns must form some sort of angle, that is identifiable. Make chits and write the names of different angles on them (acute, obtuse, right, etc.). Ask the child to pick up a chit and stand at the ‘vertex’ which forms the angle. For example, if the chit says ‘acute angle’ the child stands on the ‘vertex’ where the rays form an acute angle.

Art Attack

Take origami paper of different colors and make a fan shape by folding alternate folds in & out. Now if you want to show acute angle, then children will need to make an ‘acute model’ with the origami paper and stick the ends accordingly. To make a 360° full rotation, they will open the paper like a fan, such that it becomes a circle and then stick the ends of the paper.

Exercise Your Arm

This is like a workout session, where students have to adjust their arms to form the angle which the teacher calls out. So, for ‘right angle’, one arm is stretched vertically straight about the ceiling and the other is stretched out horizontally. When the teacher says to make an acute angle, one arm is stretched horizontally and the other slightly tilted lesser than 90°.

If you don’t have the time to devise these geometric activities to teach your child about ‘angles’, simply subscribe to the Mathletics app. Here you will find interesting ‘gamified’ tasks which intrigue the learners and drive them to attempt solving the ‘puzzle’ and in the bargain revising the concept of ‘angles’. This platform is pretty popular in UAE and other Middle East countries and parents are satisfied with the improvement in learning it brings to children.

Real-World Application of Geometric Angles

Construction of Buildings

The construction and engineering of dams, skyscrapers, and highways wouldn’t have been possible if it wasn’t for those genius architects & civil engineers applying concepts of geometric shapes and angels while designing the structure on their drawing board.

Graphic Designing

A graphic designer has to visualize how the ‘printed standee or hoarding’ would look in different ‘angles’ once it is put up in place and for this he has to have basic knowledge about geometric shapes & patterns.

Artists

Abstract art that takes inspiration from geometric forms is intricately thought through by artists before they portray this self-expression & display it on a canvas. Therefore, even artists need to know a lot about ‘symmetric shapes’ for which the knowledge of ‘angles’ comes into play.

So now that we know how important it is for learners to understand the concept of ‘angles’ and to measure ‘degrees’, it’s time to subscribe to Mathletics and let children have fun while discovering this topic in detail.

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Observing the moon is one of the most fascinating activities on earth and not just for fellow astronomers worldwide but also for us. The moon evidently appears to change shape over time and this phenomenon leaves children gleaming with wonder, doesn’t it? In order to satiate their intrigue, schools across GCC, UAE, Dubai, and the Middle East are incorporating effective ways of teaching astronomy.

Throughout the month, the Moon appears to change its shape and this phenomenon is commonly known as ‘Lunar Phases’. The Carolina Building Blocks of Science® A New Generation: Sky Watchers is a unique kit that allows students to effectively understand the phases of the moon and analyze the repeating patterns. The kit comes with a special teacher’s guide, all the necessary supplies, and apparatus for a class of 24 students. Unlike other spectacles of the universe, the Lunar phases of the moon are strikingly obvious as they are simply the visible sunlit area of the moon, which makes learning about it further interesting. There are 8 phases of the moon and you will be able to immediately recognize them as soon as you learn about them.

1. New Moon: During the first phase, the side of the moon facing us is not illuminated by the sun so it is not visible to us at all. Not many of us know that during this phase, the moon is not up at night but in the day, however, we cannot see it with our naked eye.

2. Waxing Crescent: This is when the moon starts growing into its crescent phase. You will be able to see a silvery crescent in the sky right after dusk.

3. First Quarter: 7 days after the new moon, it enters the first quarter. In this phase, only half of the moon is visible to us in the evening and then it sets shortly after. With The Carolina Building Blocks of Science® A New Generation: Sky Watchers kit, students all across GCC, UAE, Dubai and the Middle East are able to analyze this transition in detail and understand the moon’s pattern.

4. Waxing Gibbous: This phase of the moon is as interesting as its name. The moon appears to turn into a gibbous shape and almost all of it is visible except for a dark silver line. During this phase, you will be able to notice the moon in the afternoon as well.

5. Full Moon: During this phase fellow earthlings can see the entire surface of the moon that faces the earth as the sunlight falls upon it completely. It rises just as the sun sets and it is the brightest phase of the moon which is often a beautiful sight to see. The Super Moon is another phenomenon that takes people by surprise because the moon looks larger than usual, as it is the closest in its orbit to earth.

6. Waning Gibbous: Right after the beautiful full moon, the shape starts to get a little smaller. You will be able to sport the waning gibbous later at night and in the early mornings.

7. Last Quarter: Similar to the first quarter, only half of the sunlit surface of the moon is visible in this Lunar phase. However, the interesting part is that it can be easily spotted in the daytime sky as well.

8. Waning Crescent: This is the last phase before it enters the new moon. Only a small silver line is visible from earth and towards the end of the 28-day cycle, it vanishes almost entirely.

Lunar Phases are a beautiful display of the universe’s phenomenon and it indeed evokes a sense of wonder among early learners in turn giving birth to a whole new generation of skywatchers.

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As a student, one of the best habits you can instill is reading. With limitless topics, you can explore the world of fiction, non-fiction, history, biographies, etc.

Developing the habit of reading is a crucial step that needs to be taken care of at both the institution and at home. It is teamwork that will lead to such great results.

Apart from making it a habit, it is also a requirement to attain knowledge. Any student enrolled in any grade, even at primary levels, needs first to develop the recognition of letters, alphabets, word formation, etc. It will enable them to read and write in their future levels and life in general.

It is scientifically proven that reading benefits the reader in more than one way. It also develops a creative cognitive part in the reader’s mind. It helps them be more creative than the people who are less prone to reading.

Being the global hub, Dubai, GCC, UAE, and Middle East encourage schools to employ technologies that enable the students to benefit. One such helpful application is myOn. It is an application that the schools can buy and let the students use it.

MyOn

myOn is a digital library. It has more than 6,000 enhanced books from various genres and is available online. It has books and reading material appropriate for students of all grades and levels.

All users can personalize it. They can set up the app as per their interests, and this virtual library will have unlimited books to suit the individual’s interest. The myOn® reader is a student-oriented, customizable literacy environment.

This app also has a variant that is called myOn News. It can be bought in a bundle with myOn or separately.

The app is easily available in Dubai, GCC, the Middle East, and UAE. With an ever-growing population of immigrants and natives, the wards admitted in schools are also increasing. It makes a larger market for apps like myOn. But the first step is to implement the app in schools and promote it to students.

Benefits of Reading

It is a habit that benefits students, but it leaves a positive impact on people of all age groups. The benefits are also for the society as a whole as more readers mean a more literate society. Most of the benefits are long-term and can be passed on to others, such as;

• Strengthens the Reader’s Brain: It helps the brain retain new knowledge gained via reading stories & biographies. It will help the student in their academic life and the long term.
• Vocabulary Building: New words are added to the person’s vocabulary.
• Creative Thinking: The Reader has more knowledge compared to non-readers. They can be more creative with ideas and other work in their daily lives and projects and assignments.
• Reduces Stress: It is a great way to divert attention. If the reader is facing any stress or issues, reading for a few minutes will let the mind relax and think clearly.
• Opens Areas of Interest: Reading material with information about general knowledge develops students’ interest in current affairs. Children who read stories about the inner lives of characters better understand the feelings and beliefs of others.

So do your children a favor by getting the MyOn app, and help them build a more defined character, based on good habits – because every book matters.

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