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Number Practice Books by Schofield & Sims

Posted on January 3, 2018 by

My daughter has been using the Schofield & Sims Written Calculation workbooks for a year now and we have both noticed how her Maths confidence has improved.  The format really suits her and each book in the series contains lots … Continue reading →

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Maths Loop Cards

Posted on November 5, 2017 by

One of the Maths activities that we have been doing a LOT of lately has been Loop Cards / Dominoes.  The kids love them.  If I ask them to choose a Maths activity they often choose one of the Loop … Continue reading →

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Improper Fractions

Posted on October 27, 2017 by

One of the new Math ideas we introduced this year was Improper Fractions  (when your numerator is bigger than the denominator) and how you convert that Improper Fraction into a  Mixed Fraction (combinations of whole numbers and fractions).  And as … Continue reading →

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Adding and Subtracting Fractions

Posted on October 24, 2017 by

We are back onto fractions again, working on decimals but I realized I never wrote a post about how we looked at adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator or how we looked at Improper Fractions (post later this … Continue reading →

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Addition pages from Twinkl

Posted on May 21, 2017 by

I am often asked about our Maths learning, which resources we use and in what order we use them.  With addition one of the questions was – what did we do after number bonds ?  And which Twinkl Maths worksheets … Continue reading →

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Equations

Posted on May 12, 2017 by

Over the weekend my daughter and her dad got into a conversation about equations and how what is on the one side always balances with the other side.  She actually jumped onto the idea and ended up asking more and … Continue reading →

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About Time – An activity set to help understand Time

Posted on April 28, 2017 by

My oldest is not a fan of telling time or working out how much time has elapsed but she loves fractions so when I spotted the About Time Set from Learning Resources which includes a number of time fractions I … Continue reading →

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