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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.
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Mental maths and brain plasticity

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A child’s brain has an amazing ability to change and grow. Understanding what types of activities encourage brain plasticity allows you to teach a more effective mental computation program.
Explicitly teaching mental computation strategies improves maths fluency

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Fluency in maths means being able to solve maths problems quickly, easily and accurately. To improve your students’ maths fluency, an effective mental maths program needs to provide more than simple practice drills and homework exercises. It also needs to…