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

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We’ll be exploring how calculating surface areas and performance areas of cuboids and prisms can help you ensure that a stage or arena space can work best for your large-scale event. We’ll be exploring how using areas and perimeters of simple and compound shapes can help with planning out a stage or arena for your large-scale event.

SIMPLE LANGUAGE: Our WJEC Maths Higher GCSE Revision Guide contains concise definitions, simple language and useful examples that make it the perfect learning aid for improving students' knowledge and academic confidence in GCSE Maths. Informative content and simple language ensure that all pupils will be able to gain a greater understanding of both theory-based and practical topics. When you sign up to a DIY Maths Feast, you’ll gain access to brilliant materials that will support and embed the learning you’re doing with your students. The materials are for you to use as you wish – you could use them as: 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. We’ll be exploring how using cylinders and other 3D shapes can help with creating spectacular stage sets for your large-scale event.So it is natural that we are all worrying about the impact that this will have on our children. In Wales we are expecting our children to return for four weeks before they break for summer. But the reality for my son is going to be four single 2 ½ hour sessions. That’s it. And, reading between the lines, it seems as if we are being prepared for this blending of home school learning with occasional in school sessions in September too. 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) The tables below provide links to various up-to-date resources for Wales. For younger children, it might be workbooks and flashcards to help with their understanding. For older children, it will be tailored revision for exam syllabi. Calculators and equipment such as rulers and protractors aren’t permitted – this competition is based on your students’ brain power alone! What costs are involved? 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

Our Maths Feast is a fun educational challenge for Year 10 students which tests problem-solving and teamwork skills. This year we’re offering a ‘DIY Maths Feast’ which gives schools who can’t attend a face-to-face Maths Feast the opportunity to ‘do it yourself’ and run a Maths Feast in their school with their students. Our DIY Maths Feast materials can also be used to support remote learning if students are studying at home. Welcome to MathsDIY. I’m Kerry, a maths teacher with over 25 years experience including as Head of Mathematics. During these years I have helped literally hundreds (probably thousands) of students right through from year 3 up to those crucial years of GCSE and A level maths exams. COVERS 100+ CURRICULUM-BASED TOPICS: Our WJEC Maths Higher GCSE Revision Guide covers over 100 relevant topics and is suitable for the WJEC GCSE exam board specifications. COLOURFUL & ENGAGING: Beautifully illustrated with engaging images, clear designs and bright colours, the WJEC Maths Foundation and Intermediate 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 Foundation and Intermediate GCSE Revision Guide the ideal revision tool to help students thrive. Our DIY Maths Feast consists of several rounds that require different skills and strategies for success. They aim to improve problem-solving skills using recreational maths, and improve teamwork and communication skills.Our DIY Maths Feast uses the same material as our face-to-face Maths Feast, so your students won’t gain additional benefit from attending both types of Maths Feast.

Furthermore, exams change all the time. So revision guides that were great five years ago are now out of date because the exam specifications are so different. Just be careful. 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. We’ll be exploring how using volumes of cubes, cuboids and right prisms will help you to plan out a stage or arena for your large-scale event. Make ‘×’ ‘÷’ and ‘10’, ‘100’, ‘1000’ cards to place face down in two piles. Roll a dice four times to create a number (e.g. 4258), then insert a decimal point somewhere (e.g. 42.58). Take a card from each pile and do the calculation (e.g. 42.58 ÷ 100 = 0.4258).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. Print out the resource to be used in maths books or load it onto a digital platform. It will be a great record of their learning either way.