St. Joseph Tutoring Academy

08/13/2024

🌊 Dive back into learning with St. Joseph Tutoring Academy! Whether you’re riding the waves of algebra or exploring the depths of geometry, we’ve got your back this school year. Call us today at 416-356-7967 and make a splash in math! 🌟

11/17/2022

This evening we reviewed how to do Box and Whisker plots by looking at the Top 10 Salaries of Professional Soccer Players, which is especially helpful for our new Grade 9 Math curriculum in Ontario. Using an outlier test, we found that Neymar’s $53.8 Million is an outlier when compared to the other top 10 salaries. Congratulations to Neymar Jr., PSG - Paris Saint-Germain

11/16/2022

Rita Pierson reminds educators that every kid needs a champion! TED

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don'...

11/13/2022

Don’t sweat logarithms!

11/13/2022

Stubborn derivatives!

11/05/2022

An article that flips the question “When will I use math?” to “When will you not?”



https://flip.it/3eiAHP When will you ever need to use maths in real life? The answer is easy

“When will we ever need to use this?” It’s the question asked perennially in maths classrooms up and down the country and indeed around the world.The pandemic has provided some very upfront answers. …

11/05/2022

Today we covered some trigonometry from Gr 12 Advanced Functions, reviewing the sinusoidal formulas for the sum and difference of angles. If you or someone you know needs a high school math tutor, feel free to contact us at SJTA and DM us on Facebook.

06/26/2021

Join us for a story time tomorrow Saturday, June 26 at 3pm! The session will be made accessible for students of all ages. Please bring a friend too.

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06/26/2021

St. Joseph Tutoring Academy will be offering a FREE Math Drop-In session tomorrow Saturday, June 26 at 2pm-3pm. The session will be made accessible for math student in K-12, college and university students. Bring your questions and we’ll be happy to help! Also, feel free to share this event with others who may benefit from it.

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“And I lay down my life for the sheep.” Jn 10:15

06/21/2021

WHY SCIENTISTS THINK THIS HACK IS CRUCIAL FOR LIFELONG LEARNING

Quote 1: Scientists examined the fluctuating magnetic fields in the brains of participants asked to perform a sequential task repeatedly. They observed that in the brief breaks between the practice rounds, that task was replayed rapidly in their minds as if learning on its own.

This brief rest time, it turns out, played the most important role in their mastery of the task: almost all of their skill improvement happened during the breaks.

Quote 2: It seems to be that most, if not all, of early learning occurs over these rest periods and virtually nothing is detected during the practice intervals

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Want to learn a skill? Just wait a minuteIn season two of the show 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s character Liz Lemon says to her boss, “I have to do that thing rich people do, where they turn money into more …

06/21/2021

How to teach writing to Grade 1 kids: New strategies for teachers and parents by Peter Douglas Klein, The Conversation Canada

Quote: Parents can also practice printing with children at home; this is especially valuable for struggling writers. They can help children to write things that are important to them, like birthday cards for family members.

Parents can also encourage children to read and write independently. Once children begin to write, parents can be their best audience, praising their efforts and the good qualities of their writing, and making suggestions to help with ideas, printing, and spelling.

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Writing is a craft that is vital for both communicating and learning. However, many children struggle to learn to write. For most, their difficulties persist throughout elementary school unless they …

06/17/2021

A College Grad Honored Her Parents With A Photo Shoot In The Fields Where They Worked NPR

"The whole reason I wanted to go back to the fields with my parents is because I wouldn't have the degree and the diploma if it wasn't for them," says Jennifer Rocha, recent graduate of UC San Diego.