How does homework time in your house make you feel? Is it different for different subjects? Do you feel like you can’t help your child with their maths? Does it feel like it’s different from when you were at school? Are you someone who hates maths? Does it fill you with dread? Have you considered that the way that maths […]
This week we are continuing to look at ways of remembering the multiplication facts. Last week I showed you some of my favourite rhymes, this week we will be looking at a variety of methods to support with writing out the full times tables. It doesn’t matter how your child completes their times tables, they just need to do them! […]
Does your child know their multiplication facts? Is it one of those things that they struggle with? Over the next couple of weeks I want to share with you some of my favourite ways of remembering multiplication facts. When I was at school the facts were learnt by rote. We wrote them out over and over and chanted them. That […]
If you’ve been following activity in my free Facebook community this week, you’ll know I’ve been giving some pointers on calculations with decimals. Our children need to understand why decimals exist and how to calculate with them and be able to convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages. Having this understanding helps them to have fluency with numbers, which is just […]