Ho Math and Chess™ Frequently Asked Questions

 

What is Ho Math and Chess™ about?

Ho Math and Chess™ is the world’s first and largest elementary math education franchise with its patents applied and unique math and chess integrated workbooks.

It specializes in mathematical puzzles and educational chess programs to complement the regular school’s math curriculum for kindergarten and primary school students.

What is the history of Ho Math and Chess™ ?

Established in 1995 and founded by Frank Ho, a Canadian math teacher, Ho Math and Chess™ is founded on the philosophy that children learn math best while having fun. To provide an education and fun learning environment, Ho Math and Chess™  has created world's first math and chess integrated workbooks and has continued to lead the learning industry in bringing exciting and innovative products to the world.

What is the mission of Ho Math and Chess™

The mission of Ho Math and Chess™ is to challenge each student's potential to the fullest and to excel their problem-solving ability to the highest by providing a unique and enriched mathematics curriculum.

What is an integrated Math and Chess learning methodology?

Ho Math and Chess™  integrates chess symbols, chess values and chess moves into math workbooks, this innovative teaching method provides children with a new, fun and more interesting way to learn math. A simple computation problem can become a multi-step and more challenging problem.

Our materials will provide the students with more exposure in patterns recognition, logical thinking, computations using symbols and mathematical puzzles. Overall through integrating math and chess together, we will train our students to be strong in their deductive reasoning, indeductive reasoning and critical thinking.

How is Ho Math and Chess™ class conducted?

Our classroom is arranged in a conference setting, which facilitates group interaction and discussion. The learning environment will be fun with many interpersonal communication and sharing opportunities. This is done so as children learn best when they have fun.

Our objective is to train students to take pride in their problem-solving abilities and independent thinking skills.

Why students enjoy coming to Ho Math and Chess™ ?

At Ho Math and Chess™, the students get to do brain-thinking work, play chess and work on puzzle-like problems. The variety of worksheets we offered will spark their interests and re-ignite student’s enthusiasm which will bring joy and passion to the process of working on computation exercises. From our experience, it creates the sense of looking forward to coming to the classroom, eager to learn and discover mathematics in all our students.

What is Ho Math and Chess™  workbooks about?

Ho Math and Chess™ has produced the world's first copyrighted and proprietary math and chess workbooks for children. These workbooks motivate, nurture, and inspire children in exploring math the fun way. It has been to proven to excite children's curiosity and arouse their thinking and make learning more interesting. In addition, all workbooks are classroom tested and are proven to be effective in improving math marks for students all over the world.

Ho Math and Chess™ integrated math and chess program and workbooks has been approved by the USA, Illinois State Board of Education as a SES (Supplemental Educational Services) provider for math learning.

What are the awards accredited to Ho Math and Chess™ ?

Today Ho Math and Chess™ is an international iconic brand and is the world authority on the unique math and chess integrated teaching method with over 30 research papers published and over 15 workbooks produced using proprietary Frankho Geometry Chess Symbol (patents applied), Frankho Chess Mazes, and the innovative Ho Math and Chess™ Teaching Set.