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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Be honest, how many of you have developed a new hobby during lockdown? I know I have enjoyed gardening, and one of my friends has been baking the most amazing cakes. Some have taken up knitting or crochet, and others have been taking greater pleasure in the puzzle pages of the daily newspaper (guilty as charged, I love a good […]
In Education Support 4 Parents, we had some fun playing a game of hangman with maths words. I wonder, do you play games to make sure your teenager learns maths words? Did you only do that when they were in primary school? Here I explain why it is still important to do so. 1. The average reading age of a GCSE […]