Category Archives: Tools

Bringing math in your child’s life

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We all know how important it is to show your child that math is everywhere around you and not invented by their teacher to make their life difficult. Well in our link for today some tips on how to bring math in your child’s life by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) 

Read all about it: HERE

Shake a Stick at times tables

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From the UK a new approach to learn times tables. Times tables are important and there are many ways people try to teach them. This idea centers around a stick that they use to explain the tables and groups of multiplications that fit together. They also have a youtube channel to support the method. When you have tried many methods, here is just one extra you can try.

Read all about it: HERE

Do math apps really work?

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A very comprehensive review of math apps for small children with recommendations about design and content for parents and teachers to look out for.

part of their summary:

Overall, these results demonstrate that many
of the commercial educational apps for young
children that are categorised as ‘maths’, are not
necessarily reflective of best practices in app
content and design.
58 Can Maths Apps Add Value to Young Children’s Learning?
Most apps did not comprehensively capture
all areas of mathematical development,
nor did they adequately include features of
personalisation, such as explanatory feedback
and programmatic personalisation, which
this research has shown maximises children’s
outcomes in app-based learning. This
demonstrates the limited options for identifying
high-quality maths apps currently available for
parents and teachers and highlights the need
to improve the meaningful categorisation of
educational apps on the app stores to facilitate
parent and teacher choice.

Read all about it: HERE

After Sudoku now Hidato

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A wonderful way to be creative with numbers without having to do much calculations is the Hidato puzzle. In our link for today an explanation of what they are and a supply to try it yourself.

Read all about it: HERE

Brain game

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A student from Dundee has developed a great game that you can play in the classroom and that teaches children about neurodiversity.

It focuses on autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, neurological tic disorder, sensory processing disorder, epilepsy and dyspraxia.

Players compete against one another, answering questions about the neurodiverse conditions for the chance to move their counter ahead on the colourful board.

Keira designed the game as part of her final-year studies at Dundee University’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.

Read all about it: HERE