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

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Location, location, location! No we are not talking the property market ,nor where you are located in the world. What we are talking about is learning multiplication tables and how questions linked to location is the very best 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.

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?

Motion creates Emotion

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Most people accept the idea that if you take some exercise, especially aerobic type of exercise, that you can change your state of mind so that you get a heightened sense of well-being.

But that fact is that all motion creates emotion, all movement creates emotion and the focus of this article is to highlight this point and its relevance to children’s education.

Movement is such an important thing, especially for children, and we all know that children are continually in motion, they are always moving around, they are always doing things. Moving is their natural state of being and they are at their happiest when able to move.

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