Key points from the audio:

Advantages

1. It is easy to follow and a bit of fun.
2. Your child can find the correct answer without having to learn the Times Tables.
3. It can make maths more interesting

Disadvantages

1. This is not the best way to learn your multiplication tables.
2. You can only use this method for the nine times tables.
3. Each time your child has to work out a new answer. It is not an instant recall method.
4. You can’t work out the answer in your head.

However, there is a much better way which uses the amazing power of your memory, and it is easy, fun and provides instant recall. Click here to find out more.

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

Key Points

1. Seventeen out of the twenty five players were born in January, February, March and April.
2. The same pattern occurred throughout the National Hockey League and the Ontario Junior Hockey League.
3. He found that in any elite group of hockey players that around 70% were born between January and June. But why?
4. Because there is a January 1st cut off date for selection. This means that a boy born in January is directly competing against a boy born in December. The boy born in January therefore has the advantage of a years diference in growth over the boy born in December.The point is that Boys born earlier in the year  have an advantage over those born in the latter part of the year because of the arbitary cut off date for selection of the 1st January and they are therefore more likely to be selected because they are on average stronger and faster.
5. This same pattern is seen in our education systems only with a different cut off date. In the UK and in many countries the cut of date is the September 1st which means that the nearer a child is born to this date the more of an age advantage they have and therefore the more of a developmental advantage they have over children born later in the academic year.   

What benefits do those born in the earlier in the academic year have? Children born earlier have the advantage of age, maturity and size?

They are more likely to be:

6. Selected for plays
7. Volunteering for to speak more often
8. Chosen for responsibility
9. Chosen as leaders
10. Achieving higher grades
11. Excelling in school teams
12. Streamed in higher groups
13. Achieve higher self-esteem.

What advantages are the those born later in the academic year missing out on?

The education system has certainly dealt the younger children a big disadvantage and this begs the question;

What can you as a parent do?

Complaining about the system is of no use. However, you can do something about this and give your child the edge through giving them time, communicating to them the best learning techniques, and building their confidence.

This Blog is all about helping you give your children the best learning techniques, whenever in the year they were born, and this includes help with their Maths. So now you know the connection between Ice Hockey and Maths.

For further help and information please do read our articles and download our free reports .

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?

Motion creates emotion and if you move about it can change how you feel, in children’s case it makes them happy and if children are happy they are much more likely to be motivated to work harder and for longer.

If you could find a way of bringing movement into learning maths this would improve motivation and therefore learning and greatly enhance the speed at which children learn.

The question arises how on Earth can movement be applied to the learning of maths?

In fact there is a way and I want to give you an example using multiplication tables.

As we are all aware the usual way that children are taught tables is to get them to sit still and cram the tables into their minds by using rote learning.

For example with the 3times table; 1×3 is 3, 2×3 is 6, 3×3 is 9, right up to 12×3 is 36.

The Learning Well has designed a system which is the simplest, easiest most efficient way of learning the tables and it uses movement. Because it involves movement it therefore creates motivation and a willingness to learn.

The system is based on Memory Sheets.

The sheets are placed by the children around the home in different locations. The locations are then revisited on many occasions in order to learn the tables.

More difficult tables are put in more unusual places, often somewhere that will cause children to laugh, for example the toilet.

strong>This makes the tables more fun to learn and they are therefore more memorable.

If your children are not sure of the tables when you test them they just go back and have a look again.

So in the process of walking around the home and having a look at the tables; your child is moving, having fun, being motivated and this makes learning much easier.

Remember, motion creates emotion. If you use this principle linking motion, movement and having fun to maths then the end result is instant learning of the tables. Other areas of maths can be learned in a similar way.

To learn more on Maths and Movement why not have a look at other areas of this Blog and The Learning Well Blog.

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?

We encourage you to use Memory Sheets for teaching your children the times tables. With Memory Sheets your children will keep getting the answers right very quickly and they will then believe that they are good at their tables. They will be able to recall the answers instantly.

When your children know their tables in this way you have helped create a belief in them that they are good at maths and they can carry this belief with them for the whole of their time at school. This belief that will motivate them to work hard at maths rather than believing that they are no good at it with the result that they do not try.

The method to use to learn the tables is Memory Sheets placed around your home. Doing this and following the method will result in instant recall of the tables.To find out more please see the other articles in this Blog.