One of the most fundamental skills a child needs to learn when they start school is how to hold a pencil correctly. While it seems easy to us as adults, this can be an incredibly challenging [...]
Why is homework important? Most kids feel homework is a chore, especially as they study the whole day at school, only to start again in the evening. Even their parents don’t work that hard! [...]
While it’s a fact that not all researchers agree that listening to music may improve math skills and cognition, there are enough studies that show a link and prove that music benefits [...]
How to overcome thinking traps, and what are they anyway? How we think can influence our mood and our study outcomes. But consciously manipulating our thoughts makes us dishonest with ourselves [...]
Parents can help their children with maths without the upset. Yes, you read that right. Yes, as parents you CAN help your children with maths … but not in ways you may think If you haven’t [...]
My child has dyscalculia. Now what? Children who had difficulty learning to read were often considered slow. But with awareness improving on dyslexia and its symptoms, teachers are now trained to [...]
How should you introduce maths concepts to your preschooler? The preschool age is an age where learning should be fun and based on experience rather than theory. There is no rush to get your [...]
6 Ways that Centred-based Tuition Tops Home-based It seems convenient to have a tutor come to your home to tutor your kids, but there is more to consider before you decide whether this is the way [...]
Monumental mathematics events We celebrate Time Travellers Day with a travel back through history to look at some monumental mathematics events. The foundations of geometry 3,000 years ago, the [...]
Why we split 1 hour into 60 minutes? Isn’t it easier to count in 10s than in 12s? Our way of splitting up the day into 24 hours, 1 hour into 60 minutes and one minute into 60 seconds is far [...]
