Who doesn’t love a good board game? If you read my post Can Board Games Make Maths More Fun? A Review you’ll know that I’m a big fan of using board games to make math more fun. One of the coolest things about my little ones’ school is that parents and kids can borrow math ... ...
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photo credit: Carlos Porto “I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.” Arthur Schopenhauer Go read some math Math Storybooks. Sounds a bit weird? As parents we’re used to reading to our young children as often as we can, and telling our older kids to “Go and read a book!” and who ... ...
Whether it’s your child’s math teacher, math tutor or Kumon instructor who has helped build a love of math in your child, sometimes you’ll want to say thanks by buying your child’s math mentor a gift. When I did my stint at the whiteboard teaching math to 11 to 18 year olds, my students would ... ...
When it comes to the times tables there are lots of different ways of learning them - through songs, videos, board games and of course, through tablet apps. The key to speedy stress free learning is to practise them often until they become fixed in your child’s head, like the names of all the characters in ... ...
I’ve calculated that I spend around 14 hours a week in my car, with school runs, and shipping my kids to after school activities. During these trips, we spend a lot of time chatting (If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?) and also a little time staring at the traffic ... ...
This is a guest post by Adrian Beckett maths tutor extraordinaire! In my last blog post on the Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) Skills Mental Maths Test, Can You Pass the Maths Test For Teachers, we looked at the all-important times tables. Without them, so much of maths becomes more difficult, and for those intrepid trainee teachers doing the ... ...
This is a guest post by Susan Cumberland, owner of School is Easy Tutoring in Vancouver Not all careers require extensive math study, however, most careers do utilize basic math skills everyday. If your child doesn’t care about math and wonders why it is important for them to learn math at school or with a tutor, here ... ...
In the UK, the Easter holiday or Spring Break is the time when high school students get down to some serious last minute revision for their upcoming GCSE and A-Level exams, with some students even attending special revision camps over the holiday. This is a guest post by SJ, a freelance contributor. She outlines 8 tactics ... ...
Yesterday was a busy day. At the start of the day, I knew I had to drop my 4 kids at 2 different schools 20-rush-hour-traffic-on-the-highway-minutes apart from each other. But that was usual for a Monday morning, and although the school bus would normally be kind enough to drop the older 2 home, I knew ... ...
This is a guest post by Adrian Beckett, maths tutor extraordinaire A background to the QTS Skills Test The The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) Numeracy Skills Test is a scary test that all trainee teachers in the UK have to pass before applying for any teacher training course, even ... ...
A great way to help your child build a love of math is to point out some of the cool jobs and careers that need math. I’ve found that even though my daughter may not love math, she knows that the careers that she’s interested in would need a good level of math knowledge, which ... ...
These days my 2 older kids (aged 11 and 13), come home from school, grab some food from the pot (if I’ve been organized!), some fruit from the fridge or put some bread in the toaster. They then sit down at the breakfast bar, open up You Tube on the the kitchen computer and watch ... ...
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