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Are you looking for ways to support your child with learning their times tables? Until this point it has been a constant battle and sense of frustration. They need to know them, but previous methods haven't worked and now it's time to try something new.
Or
maybe, you just enjoy spending time with your child and this is something you can do together to create quality time, memories, and a knowledge and confidence of the times tables.
Are you looking for ways to support your child's early education?
Do you want to make your child's education a fun and enjoyable experience?
Are you looking to help them to learn some of the most commonly used grammatical terms in their primary education?
Yes?
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Square Pegs and Round Holes
'Square Pegs & Round Holes, Supporting Every Child's Education' is aimed at parents who have children who don't necessarily learn through the conventional 'one style suits all' approach to education. In this book we look at dyslexia, ASD, ADHD and touch on anxiety. It is a compilation of everything I have learned over the past 20+ years of working in and learning about education and learning differences.
We dive into what these learning differences are and then how you can support your child.
Fundamentally the main message presented throughout this book is that learning should be engaging, relevant, and interactive. We need to use a range of resources to support our children with creating multiple memories so that it is easier for them to recall the information when needed.
These are the principles which have guided Clara James Tutoring, where it has proven to be effective time and time again over the past decade.
I hope you enjoy this book and find many take aways that you can share with your child to help make education more accessible and more enjoyable to them.
Learn Your Times Tables: The Fun Way!
Is your child struggling to learn the times tables?
Does trying to learn them result in tears and unhappiness (yours or theirs...)
Are you looking for a more enjoyable and interactive approach?
Over 20 years ago now I started studying how we learn. One of the things I learned was that a child needs to be relaxed in order to be in the right frame of mind to absorb the information. Further more, if we keep just doing the same thing, we are helping them to create one memory. So, when they come across a question, their brain only has one place where it can go to where it can find that piece of information.
However, if we use a range of activities we are creating multiple memories, making it easier to recall the information when needed.
The was the logic we use at the tutoring business I started back in 2012. Make it fun, build confidence as well as knowledge and ensure we use a range or resources. The easiest way to do that was to offer the resources as games.
For the past 12 years we have played these games repeatedly and they have always been a huge success.
I hope that by playing them it helps your child find the confidence and knowledge of the times tables that they have been seeking.
There's 2 games I should have mentioned but isn't actually in the book. The first is Jenga. If you have a Jenga game, write a number from 1-12 on each brick. If you are practising the 6x table for example, each time you pull a brick out you multiply the number written on it by 6. The person who causes the tower to fall, looses...
The other game that isn't in the book book that I shall mention now is noughts & crosses (tick-tac-toe). Draw the 3-by-3 grid and within each space write 1 number between 1 and 12. In order to claim your square, you must multiply the number written there by the times table you are practising. The first person to get a row of 3 wins!
Good luck and enjoy!