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Motion creates Emotion

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

Maths and Movement

What on earth has movement got to do with maths?

Surely movement is to do with physical education or sports and not maths!

When children are moving about they are happy.

Children therefore love to move and are always in perpetual motion whenever they have the choice. Do your children just sit still unless they have to?

The problem with Maths is that it is mostly learned by sitting still with children trying to get the number work into their heads whilst at the same time doing something that is not natural to them .i.e. being still.

Being still is therefore not the best way to learn especially for children, so what is?

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Testing Process

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Stop Rote Learning – Stop holding your children back

Times tables are one of those things which everyone has to learn. Tables are traditionally things that have been learnt a certain way over the years.

People know they can learn their tables, but these are taught to us in a rote fashion, and to get them right takes a long time and a lot of effort.This means learning multiplication tables is slow, unproductive, and involves too much thinking, as we are taught them in a linear fashion.

For example schools still teach times tables by getting children to read or say them out loud repeatedly, or using some another form of repetition such as this:

1 x 2 = 2

2 x 2 = 4

3 x 2 = 6

This is rote learning and there is a much better and far easier way for your children to learn the tables! How?

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Photograph and remember times tables in an instant

Most people will have looked at their times tables as small numbers on a page and will often have said the numbers as they have tried to learn them.

This is not the best way to learn multiplication tables. There is a far easier way that uses your children’s minds just like a camera so that they can recall the tables in an instant.

We continually learn things in a visual way. So we see things and remember them and this is the key to learning tables the smart way!

To make multiplication tables far more memorable for your children you can use big visual numbers and put these in a place that will be remembered, so:
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Tags: Instant recall, Learning, Memory