What do I need to know? There are 7 main numeracy skills that will help with your maths. Many people see numeracy as a concrete and practical skill. It is more than the ability to understand basic arithmetic although good number sense is critical and a required stepping stone. Numeracy involves developing skills for life, learning and the workplace. A numerate person can … [Read more...]
Buy a Maths Wrap Classic
[nggallery id=1] Buy a Maths Wrap Classic! Each Maths Wrap Classic contains everything you need to learn up to your 12x tables - it's as easy as 1,2,3! Maths Wrap helps your child to concentrate and build confidence in foundational maths. "Wrapping" encourages learning in 4 ways - 'doing,' 'seeing,' 'repeating' and 'performing an action.' This is known as "kinesthetic" or … [Read more...]
How to do Long Division or How Many Lots?
'Chunking' or 'traditional' or something else? Let us know what you think.. … [Read more...]
How to do Short Division or How Many Lots?
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Rip up those textbooks for maths confidence!
There is a scene in the Robin Williams film "Dead Poets Society" when he encourages the students to rip out the introductory pages of a poetry book. The general point is that they should be thinking for themselves and not using a graph to rate the poems effectiveness. I'm definitely not of the opinion that we should all be ripping pages out of books but I do feel that … [Read more...]