At Tuition First HQ we were musing on the fact that no-one writes letters anymore; and more to the point our young people don’t know how to set out a letter – or address an envelope! (We can’t remember when we last bought writing paper either). The digital age has a lot to answer for
Recently we have had a number of year 5 pupils struggling with worded mathematical questions. Pupils have often got into the habit of looking at Maths purely as a series of calculations. They have learnt addition and subtraction followed by long multiplication and long division purely as a number operation. Introduce a worded functional element
There are surely plenty of creative ways to teach maths, and demonstrate its artistry to young people Rachel Riley If I had a penny for every time I’ve heard someone proudly declare they’re “rubbish at maths”, suffice to say I’d have a lot of counting to do by now. Many Britons see their numerical illiteracy
