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🧠+💜 Mathematics and 🖥📱 technology.

Maths is usually associated with numbers, computers and calculators. So, technology is often used in maths lessons.   But this is likely to lead to the downfall of your child’s maths learning. In reality technology is...

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Everything begins from Zero

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 “My young child repeatedly makes basic maths mistakes.” “His maths memory is very poor!” “Is my daughter number blind?” “Probably inherited from me…” I heard many of these worries from parents. But before you jump...

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 🎮🎲 Do board games and logic puzzles help kids to learn maths?

Yes, they sure do, but there is a snag. Some games and puzzles don't help as much as most people believe. And here is why.   Intellectual games and logic puzzles can be great at helping...

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ‘What’s the point of maths?’

or How is maths useful in the real world?   How can you answer these questions so your child feels satisfied with your answer? Maths is compulsory in all schools on Earth, but why? Your child...

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My son is great at maths. He just got stuck on …

“I HATE FRACTIONS!” Your child screams and you try to help… Your child asks you for help with a maths problem they're stuck on. Let’s take fractions for example… a notoriously hard topic 🥴 You try...

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Why some children ‘unexpectedly’ lose interest in learning maths and how this can be avoided. Part 3.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🏫  Common reason No 3️⃣   Helping your child to cross 💜THE GREAT MATHS BARRIER🧠+💜   Reason 3: fear. Some types of maths explanations create the fear of maths learning.   1️⃣ Explanations are mathematically imperfect....

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Why some children ‘unexpectedly’ lose interest in learning maths and how this can be avoided. Part 2.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🏫 Common reason No 2️⃣ Helping your child to cross 💜THE GREAT MATHS BARRIER🧠+💜   Traditionally, teachers and instructors in all areas of life – be it sport, art, music, science or driving a car:  ...

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Why some children ‘unexpectedly’ lose interest in learning maths and how this can be avoided. Part 1.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🏫  Common reason No 1️⃣ Helping your child to cross 💜THE GREAT MATHS BARRIER🧠+💜   Nothing in life is ever perfect. In fact, perfect is the enemy of good. Right?   And teachers are only human...

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The three essentials of successful maths teaching

Maths is absolutely unambiguous and perfectly logical. Everything in maths is always either right or wrong. There is no middle. This requires a cool and unemotional head, at all times. And this is what makes it...

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Is Maths Innate? Maths and Peek-a-boo!

Can babies walk? Surely, they can’t yet. Do we have to help them walk by explaining how to? Surely, not. It’s innate. But what about maths? Can babies count? Do we have to explain to kids...

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