Helping a Struggling Maths Student: Investigating Quadrilaterals

Goals of this week's maths fun: To discover the shapes and names of all the quadrilaterals To be able to recognise each of them as plain mathematical shapes and as shapes in everyday life. To sort, classify and display their findings relating to a bag of quadrilaterals To discover and fully understand the terms 2D and 3D…

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One Year Pond Study Week 30: Celebrations at the Pond

Here is our pond this week: Although we have crept into the autumn months, there remains a dusty summer murkiness to the pond.  I think in order for the pond to return to its former glory we need rain and lots of it.  However, when the first day of home school celebrations were discussed the pond was…

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Helping a Struggling Maths Student: Learning Without a Curriculum and Using a Maths Informationary

I'm not entirely sure I have what it takes to do this.  This being teaching Maths without a curriculum.  It seems a bit daunting.   Bearing that in mind, it was important for me to be working within a frame work of sorts (the national curriculum).  I'll not be teaching from it, but will use it…

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Little House on the Prairie: American Folk Museum Part 3

Click here for part one: The Irish Side Click here for part two: The Ship And welcome to part three: The American Side After disembarking the ship we headed straight for the prairie house.  I had been under the mistaken impression that it was a replica of the Little House.  It wasn't.  It was an…

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Little House on the Prairie: American Folk Museum Part 1

One of the places I really wanted to visit when we were in Northern Ireland was the American Folk Museum.  The reason being that it had an actual prairie house which had been transported back from America plank by plank and reconstructed on site.  No it wasn't a replica of the Little House (as I…

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Helping a Struggling Math Student: Utilising a foreign number system with a base 4

Please excuse the terrible photos.  The children are rehearsing a play they have written and are intending to act out for my birthday.  The living room has been turned into a theatre complete with scenery, stage and moveable curtains!  It was therefore very dark when I took the photos!! The children discussed first what base…

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