Have you ever thought that learning is all about how clever someone is, or their attitude, or how much they focus? I know I have, but there’s so much more to it.
Response to Rishi Part 2: Overcome Maths Anxiety
A few weeks ago Rishi Sunak announced that in England he wants to raise the age of compulsory maths education to 18, Last week I wrote about why I believe we should stop the infatuation, with maths being THE most important subject. If you missed it, read it here. Don’t get me wrong though, I DO believe that we need to […]
How to Know Your Child’s GCSE Grade (and Understand the GCSE Grading System)
Are you a parent who doesn’t know what the 1-9 GCSE grades mean, and wonder if your child is on track? In this blog post, Skills4Parents founder Liz explains the GCSE grading system and how this can link to topics and exam papers. “This new GCSE grading system makes no sense!” When the GCSE was changed back in 2015 (first […]
Why You Shouldn’t Leave Education up to the School
In the Smorgasbord of Maths training I explained why I left teaching, and why I set up Skills4Parents. When I explained my vision for changing education those watching sent me lots of love with those wonderful heart emojis. It was such an emotional moment. Where it started I left teaching after 16 years because it was all about results, results, […]
Turning Maths Homework from Stressful to Successful
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 […]
Multiplication Mastery: Times Tables Are Everything
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! […]
What’s the Point? Calculations with Decimals
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 […]
Methods for Multiplication Mastery and Division Domination
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 […]
How to Conquer Pi with Your Child
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 […]
Don’t Be Fractious When It Comes to Fractions!
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 […]