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Questions are the answer to multiplication tables, but not just WHAT, also WHERE!

Location, location, location! No we are not talking property, we are talking learning multiplication tables and how questions linked to location is the way for your children to learn their times tables.

What questions should you ask your children to help them remember and learn their tables?

To test our children when learning multiplication tables we usually ask questions all beginning with the word ‘WHAT’. 

For example:

What is 6 x 8?

What is 9 x 6?

It seems obvious that asking ‘WHAT’ this is the right thing to ask.  

It is ‘a’ right thing to ask, however, there is another question, a very powerful question that can be asked that will aid and massively increase children’s ability in remembering their multiplication tables.

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Activities and learning resources for learning maths and multiplication tables

Have you noticed that children find it difficult to sit still while learning maths, particularly when learning multiplication tables by rote learning. When sitting still for too long their concentration can wonder so what learning resources do you have to help maintain their concentration on maths and multiplication tables?

What activities can you encourage your children to do to help them stay focused on their times tables?

Put simply what can you do when you are at home and want to help your children with their maths and multiplication tables and maintain their concentration, focus and energy at the same time?

The answer is simple and believe it or not you have the necessary learning resources to help your children right at your fingertips. What resources?

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Motion creates Emotion and motivation for learning in Children greatly improving their numeracy

All motion creates emotion and the focus of this article is to highlight this point and its relevance to children learning and improving numeracy through various learning strategies.

Movement is such an important thing and we all know that children are at their happiest when able to move. However, the logistics of teaching in school means they if they were moving around all the time it would be total chaos and there would be little or no improvement in their numeracy. 

But what about in the home?

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The Learning Well Method

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The Learning Well Method is captured by the mnemonic

‘Learning Steps Know It Works’

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Maths and Hockey

In the book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell showed the player roster of the 2007 Medicine Hat Tigers Hockey Team (researched by a Canadian psychologist named Roger Barnsley).

Listen to Tony Lazar’s view on how this affects a child’s progress through school:

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