Tag: Teaching Maths
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“Number sense isn’t a bag of mental tricks, and teaching strategies alone won’t make it appear. In this post, we explore how understanding the structure of numbers—and practising real problems—helps children develop true number fluency. keep reading
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Maths often feels like a long list of rules: carry here, borrow there, invert and multiply. But what if the problem isn’t the child — it’s the way maths is usually taught? keep reading
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If you’ve ever homeschooled a tween or teen, chances are you’ve heard the question: “Where am I ever going to use this?” From time to time I see something on the socials that makes me sigh. There’ll be a parent asking a question along the lines of, “my boy doesn’t like bookwork and is interested… keep reading
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Counting to Five The aim of this milestone is for your child to learn: Not all counting is counting! Some kids are natural born memorisers and they can rattle off a sequence of numbers without blinking. But this does not always mean that they actually understand what a number IS. Most kids at this age… keep reading
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Milestone 1 Before you get started with Milestone Maths, the only purchase you must make is to get a set of physical Sumstix. Yes, you could technically make a paper or cardboard set but they would be very fiddly for little fingers. Making them bigger is not the answer because the lengths are actually quite… keep reading
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I’ve been seeing a lot about AI in homeschool groups on the socials lately. Many times it’s suggesting AI as a tool for planning or preparing reports for registration. If you’re careful about it, AI can definitely shave a few hours out of those tasks. But the thing that virtually terrifies me is when I… keep reading
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In our last article we looked at how to use Sumstix and number bonds to teach your child to add and subtract single digit numbers . These tools work brilliantly for totals up to ten, and those facts are non-negotiable to make sense of higher level maths, like fractions and algebra. But what happens when… keep reading
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What do controversial AI chatbots, the manual for your latest “big kid toy” and your child’s maths homework all have in common? The answer is the humble algorithm. The word is becoming fairly commonplace today but most people have a very sketchy idea of what it actually means. In fact, if you’re over thirty, I’m… keep reading
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There are three non-negotiable skills that a child needs to succeed at high school maths: Now, that list may seem overly simplistic but it really is at the heart of what every child needs succeed in higher level maths. In fact, even the dreaded algebra is really just basic arithmetic (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing)… keep reading
