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The next time you go to the supermarket with your child try this very simple game. It will help secure numeracy as well as develop an understanding for the price of food! At the supermarket look at the price of every item you put in your basket or trolley and ask your child to add up all the items in … Read MoreUse a Trip to the Supermarket to Improve Your Childs Numeracy Skills

It doesn’t matter which sport you pick, but pick one and use it to help secure numeracy with your child. Baseball and cricket are both excellent sports to help teach a whole range of baths including pitches, runs, hits, errors, overs, run-rate, probability etc. Golf is great because the winner is the person with the lowest score which is usually … Read MoreUse Sports to Help Secure Real-World Numeracy for Your Child

It cannot be over-stated as to how important understanding maths is in the real world. Stock markets, currency exchange rates and of course the sports pages. These are all excellent sources of real-world maths which you can use to help educate your child how to use even simple arithmetic. If you’re planning a holiday and your child is taking some … Read MoreUse Newspapers and Real-World Stats to Help Secure Numeracy

Here’s a sample page from the Key Stage Maths Year 6 workbook for Number and Place Value. Page 10 focuses on negative numbers. A lot of children struggle with negative numbers even after it has been explained on the number-line. One of the best ways to secure negative numbers is using practical examples such as temperature which is what we … Read MoreYear 6 Negative Numbers Examples Using Temperatures

Here’s an example from the Year 6 Key Stage Maths workbook “Number and Place Value”. This is the very first page which sets the scene by making sure children can understand large numbers in digits and words. The kind of numbers which often trip up children who are still in the process of securing number and place value are numbers … Read MoreNumber and Place Value Year 6 Example

This is a great quote because it is completely true. Whether a child is ploughing through the syllabus, doing homework or using workbooks, it’s the doing that is the learning. One could say the same about art.

Our new Year 6 Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division workbook is now available to buy, download and print. It is A4, 21 pages with 164 Q&A, for only £4.95. It is ink-friendly and has been designed to use minimal ink on each page. Click here for more info

The main advantage of buying downloadable workbooks is that you can print and use them over and over. For example, during the Easter, Christmas or Summer holiday it is useful for a child to work their way through a number of workbooks – e.g. to secure maths before starting the next term. If during the school break you have identified … Read MoreThe Advantages of Downloading Workbooks

Our new Year 6 Number and Place Value workbook is now available to buy, download and print. It is A4, 21 pages with 188 Q&A, for only £4.95 It is ink-friendly and has been designed to use minimal ink on each page. Click here for more info

For children progressing to grammar or independent schools, Year 5 in Primary School is the most important year of their life at Primary School. In the first week of Year 6 there are the 11+ exams and after just one term in Year 5 children will be sitting their entrance exams to independent schools. By the start of the summer … Read MoreDon’t Underestimate the Importance of Year 5