Maths Blog

9 Times Tables Trick

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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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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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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Build Confidence in Maths and Motivate your Children to do well

There is a basic need to learn times tables and the great news is that they can be learnt in such a way to give your child confidence.

Most parents know how incredibly important it is for their children to learn the times tables.

The tables are so important that they are one of the building blocks to education. You have to learn your tables if you want to become good at maths.

You can teach the the times tables in such a way that your children will gain huge confidence, raise their self esteem and also gain the belief that they are clever. How?

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