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 […]
This week in Education Support4Parents we have been focusing on multiplication and division. A third of the GCSE is non-calculator so it’s important that your child can do these without a calculator. There are many different methods for multiplication and division, when we were at school, we only learnt one. If I had a penny for every parent who has said […]
This week we celebrated Pi day, whereas last week was British Pieweek! Pi day or 14th March, (written in American date system as 3/14), because Pi is 3.14 . We are looking at different areas of maths each week over the next couple of months, and as we celebrated pi day, I figured we’d think about circles and how pi […]
This week we are looking at circles and fractions, because it’s British Pie week, and next Monday is pi day! Each week over the next couple of months we will focus on a different area of maths, and I’ll give you some of my top tips for each of topic. The Language of Fractions Maths is a language and so […]
This week, we have a guest blog from Stephanie Ward who talks to us about self-confidence and her advice on creating a happy, confident child. We are looking at self confidence this week because it is one of the core values we hold at Skills4Parents. Here, Steph gives us her three top tips for nurturing confidence in your child. I […]
Skills4Parents provides education support and advice for parents, and online maths tutoring. Our core values underpin every piece of advice, and all of the work that we do. Our core value is individuality. From this, we have 4 other values of self-esteem, self-worth, self-belief and self-confidence. Last week we looked at self-worth, and this week we consider self-esteem and the […]
At Skills4Parents we provide education support and advice for parents and online maths tutoring. We have core values that underpin every piece of advice, and all of the work that we do. Our core value is individuality, and from this we have 4 other values of self-esteem, self-worth, self-belief and self-confidence. Today Liz, founder of Skills4Parents, takes a look at […]