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

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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?

The Learning Well Method

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The Learning Well Method is captured by the mnemonic

‘Learning Steps Know It Works’

The Method is set out below in four steps:

1) Whatever you are LEARNING

2) Take the Action STEPS to learn

3) Test by Asking do you KNOW IT?

4) And, do what WORKS

Remember the mnemonic:

‘Learning Steps Know It Works’

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Maths and Hockey

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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).