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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’

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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9 Times Tables Trick

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Here is a simple technique for your child to use to learn their 9 x tables.

 

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Key points from the audio:

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Tags: children, Learning, Maths, Multiplication

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).

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

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Printable times table sheets

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To print or not to print Multiplication tables, that is the question. Does that remind you of a more famous quote?

What has that got to do with printable times table sheets?

You the parents are looking for tables to print and so feel that they are useful.

It is a good thing to do but what type of tables are you going to print?  Here we are going to guide you to print out the best times tables sheets.

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Tags: Maths, Multiplication, Times Tables

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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Tags: Learning, Maths, Multiplication, Times Tables