Math Notes by Yamie Chess

Video math lessons by experienced teachers who have been involved with the Yamie Chess math project which builds STEM skills, including Patrick Jones and Ben McGahee. Free for use in schools and for math homework help.

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The Pythagoras Dragon

Yamie Chess announces the publication of our new math comic, the Pythagoras Dragon: https://www.yamiechess.com/the-pythagoras-dragon

Helping kids build math skills in algebra and geometry through a friendly cartoon world, the Pythagoras Dragon is set in ancient China during the reign of Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty.

A lavish production, the material visually explores for middle school students’ understanding in geometry, the 12th century Indian mathematican Bhakara II’s proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. Priced at $2.99, the Pythagoras Dragon goes on sale on Amazon Kindle, Google Play, Apple iBooks, NOBO, Kobo and Follett School Solutions on March 30, 2015. Learn more at Yamie Chess math comics site: https://www.yamiechess.com/mathcomics

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Yamie Chess Math Comics series goes on sale on Apple and Google this week

Yamie Chess is excited to unveil our new series of digital math comics for kids, which teaches key supplemental math skills for school including topics like basic algebra, numbers and operations, measurement and the fundamentals of geometry.

Costing less than the price of a Big Mac, the comics are downloadable this week on everyone's smartphones and tablets. Learn more about Yamie Chess Math Comics at www.yamiechess.com/mathcomics.

With educational reviews from Yale University and several respected Apple Distinguished Educators, the first Yamie Chess Math Comics in the new eBook series focus on helping children to master algebra, number learning, data analysis and geometry— they will be on sale in over 51 countries on February 9, 2015 and are currently pre-orderable on the following platforms: 

Google Play, Amazon Kindle and Kindle Fire Phone, Apple iBooks, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble Nook. Both Android and Apple phones will be able to access them in high definition.

The Yamie Chess Math Comics series launch coincides with Yamie Chess Ltd. signing a deal with Follett School Solutions to distribute our math comics to 70,000 school districts, schools and classrooms across America and K-12 institutions worldwide. 

Most elementary and middle schools will get instant access to the math comics through their on-site institutional subscriptions to the educational Follett Shelf network. Over the coming year, we'll be releasing new math learning comics as we grow the education resource for students, so check back soon!

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Yamie Chess teaches kids the coordinate system through the classic chess grid

With Yamie Chess, students as young as 5 years old use the classic chess grid to begin learning about the coordinate system that our math teacher Patrick Jones discusses in the video above.

In Yamie Chess' learning toy, this is all done through an engaging cartoon math world of Tigermore and the Mind Angels where concepts in numbers, algebra, data analysis like Venn Diagrams and measurement are gently approached in a friendly way written by qualified math teachers with years of classroom experience.

A sound understanding of the Cartesian or X-Y coordinate system is important to grasp the the basis of many concepts in geometry and algebra. Understanding coordinates through playing Yamie Chess can be great preparation for success in math class at school.

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A neat way to think about subtracting numbers for kids

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Money handling skills for life: Ordering Decimals from Smallest to Largest

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Very cool math lesson on writing a number as a percent

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Teaching kids the skill of writing word names for decimal numbers

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A fun way to master simple multiplication of whole numbers

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Demystifying linear equations with a great 2-step method for solving them

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How to convert mixed numbers to improper fractions and vice versa

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The clearest way to find the original price of an Item knowing the price after a discount

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A great way to think about subtracting integers for exam success

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Look at this neat strategy for finding the percent of free throws made

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How to find the volume of a cylinder

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Can you do this fantastic probability problem Involving "At Least" and "Complements"?

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How do you draw a number line to match an inequality?

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A fantastic approach to simplifying like terms in algebra expressions