I Can't Do Maths!: Why children say it and how to make a difference

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COLOURFUL & ENGAGING: Beautifully illustrated with engaging images, clear designs and bright colours, the WJEC Maths Higher GCSE Revision Guide effortlessly supports visual learning. Vibrant images bring to life key Maths concepts alongside clearly labelled diagrams. Altogether, they make the WJEC Maths Higher GCSE Revision Guide the ideal revision tool to help students thrive. This engaging DIY Maths booklet is focused on ratios and proportions. What they are, where you find them in the real world and how to calculate problems that involve ratios and proportions. Finally, if your child is in year 11 or 12 and they want to study medicine, dentistry or veterinary science, or perhaps apply for Oxbridge they would normally be getting quite a lot of support with this. The final section provides guides on UCAT and BMAT tests; applying to medical school, the UCAS process etc. (The UCAT test used to be called UKCAT. Some material still has the K, some doesn’t. It is the same) So I totally understand why my phone is ringing more; why parents feel the need to ‘keep on top’ of this and become more involved because it looks like we are in this for the long haul.

I think it’s only natural. We worry about them missing their friends and we worry about how they are doing emotionally. I’ve had lots of phone calls recently with parents asking for advice about how they can support their children at home. Usually it starts with COVERS 95+ CURRICULUM-BASED TOPICS: Our WJEC Maths Foundation and Intermediate GCSE Revision Guide covers over 95 relevant topics and is suitable for the WJEC GCSE exam board specifications. You don’t need to be an expert to support your child with maths or help them develop a good sense of number! Here are three simple but effective learning ideas that you can try with your child at home.So to try and help, I’ve put together a list of what I consider to be the best support around. Depending on your child’s age and motivation you can buy these resources and set them a certain amount each week to do, or they can just use them independently and you have the peace of mind of knowing that you have provided them with some really helpful support. I’ve adjusted the list by age, from Year 5 and 6, right up to A-level.

convert between units of measure within one system, including time and metric units to metric units of length, area If you are like me, you are struggling at the moment to work from home; support your children with their schoolwork and try and keep it all together with a smile on your face. recall and use formulae for the circumference of a circle and the area enclosed by a circle circumference of a circle = 2πr = πd, area of a circle = πr There are a variety of tasks including getting to grips with the basics of ratios and proportion, practical skills, working with word problems, mathematical vocabulary, buddy teaching and extension activities.

FOR SCHOOL

We recommend that schools take at least four days to run their DIY Maths Feast – this could be over lunchtimes, after school, or within maths lessons. If you’re using the materials virtually, you can organise it how you see fit!