School Mathematics Intuition Project

The School Mathematics Intuition Project (SMIP) provides resources for math. The main focus of the project is resources that provide or boost intuition for topics covered by the Alberta mathematics curriculum.

Although the SMIP operates independently of iCareYouth, some iCareYouth members are also contributors to SMIP, including the creator of SMIP. This page contains links to some of the resources developed for the School Mathematics Intuition Project:

The Laws of Logarithms: Where Do They Come From? uses corresponding exponent laws to prove the logarithm laws presented in the logarithms unit of Math 30-1.

Arithmetic/Geometric Series Formulas: Where Do They Come From? proves the formulas used to find the sum of arithmetic and geometric series in the sequences and series unit of Math 20-1.

Combinations, Pascal's Triangle, and Binomial Expansions: Drawing Connections shows the connections between the three concepts in the title. This document relates to the combinatorics unit of Math 30-1.

Fun problems for the Year 2021 features a variety of contest math style questions with the number 2021! The problem contains difficult and challenging problems that are definitely worth a shot. Here are the hints to the problem set: Hints to "Fun Problems for the year 2021"

A Very Colourful Problem Set features challenging contest math style questions of all four subject distributions: Geometry, Algebra, Combinatorics, and Number Theory. The problem set is also quite aesthetic :)

As more resources for SMIP are developed, they will be posted on this page.