Saturday 23 January 2016

Developing Maths Skills at Home


Due to my role working with adults, I have a unique perspective on children's education.  My view is 20/20 because I get to look back on a persons' learning history and figure out what went wrong. A persons relationship with maths is ALWAYS a factor, for reasons I've discussed a lot on this blog.

The family culture possibly plays the BIGGEST part in determining whether a child will achieve mathematically or not. And it needs to start early.  The clip below gives ideas about how to cultivate a family culture that will contribute to a healthy mathematical outlook.  It also includes math problems you can use with your children or yourself.  If you are home-schooling this should be useful.

The YouTube version is here (recommended).  Or watch below.  


4 comments:

  1. This is genius. Nice work. I'm going to repost and link back to here.

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  2. As a follow up, why don't you post the slides for people to print out. They can stick them to the wall or whiteboard. Or fridge works well a whiteboard.

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  3. This is a great idea. Please could you post links to some of the websites you use as sources for these problems?

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  4. Thanks Graeme and Diva! Good idea about the slides Graeme - I'm on it. Thanks for reposting too - appreciate it.

    Diva, a bunch of people have all asked the same thing - so yes I'll totally get on to it. I'm a bit lazy so give me a day or two.

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