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 […]
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 […]
This month we have been looking at how to revise. Today Liz explains the differences between the different resources to help you find the best maths books for your child. There are a few main publishers for resources and they each have their benefits. At Skills4Parents we focus on the individual and what suits them. We recommend that once you have […]
There are 17 weeks to go until the GCSE exams start. Revision will be starting soon, does your child know not only how to revise, but how and what they should be revising? What can you do to help them? Liz, explains some of her top tips. Only revise what they need to revise It’s a human tendency to want […]
Do you sometimes wonder why you send your child to school in the last few days of term? Those last days of term were often seen as wasted days. Do you know the days I mean, where teachers put on a christmas film? I really didn’t like wasting those days, but wanted to bring fun into my lessons. I would […]
Over the last few weeks we’ve been considering algebra. Today I want to give you my algebra top tips so that you can master those algebra basics. Understand the order of operations This is always the first thing that needs to be understood. Go back and read my blog post all about this, ‘How to Stop Getting Maths Wrong’. Once you’ve […]
Last week, we looked at the skills that you get from algebra. This week I want to look at the jobs that would use it. Now, we know that a lot of the jobs our young people will go into don’t even exist now, but the skills will be the same. It’s expected that we will change careers 5 times in […]