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 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 ... ...
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 ... ...
The best way for a child to get better at those dreaded addition and subtraction facts and the times tables is to actually do lots of addition and subtraction and times tables questions. For some kids, sitting down to do pages and pages of Kumon arithmetic is something they’re happy to do but for most ... ...
Hope you’re having an amazing start to 2013! If helping your child develop a love of math is high on your list of things to get done this year, then I’d love to help you achieve this through my posts here on Maths Insider. What topics would you like to see covered in the year ... ...
This is a guest post by Kathy from howmuchisit.org, a website that helps consumers find out what things cost. If you have a child that is in school right now, you may often wonder where your child should stand in terms of their mathematical skills. Sure, while they are getting decent grades, does it really ... ...
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