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Five tips to make mental maths count

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Chances are each of us will use mental maths more times in our lives than we can count. But do your students know how important this skill is? Here are five tips to make the most of your mental maths…
How to differentiate with Think Mentals

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Providing effective differentiation in your mental maths lessons can be tricky, let’s have a look at how Think Mentals can help. Whether you’re using the student workbooks or the digital platform there’s plenty of opportunities to support and extend your…
Activity Tracker Tutorial

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Find out how to use the Activity Tracker to monitor real-time student performance.
Why mental computation matters

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Most of us have stood in front of a class of students and been asked, ‘Why do I need to solve this problem in my head when I’ve got a calculator on my iPad?’ It’s a good point. We’ve become…
If it’s not friendly, it’s not working!

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Getting your students to use mental computation strategies effectively can be a challenge. Despite your weekly mental computation lesson, students can resort back to inefficient and time-consuming methods of writing out all the steps instead of working it out in…
Make sense with marking on a Monday

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Using marking as a learning opportunity gives students time to reflect and consolidate what they’ve learnt, and tells you the level of students’ understanding.
Hold that thought: How jotting helps with mental computation

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We all know that the purpose of mental computation is to solve maths problems quickly and accurately in our heads. But we shouldn’t forget the importance of jotting when teaching mental computation strategies.