What each topic actually requires
Find the topic your child is struggling with. Each page tells you the three to five things they need first, how to check in five minutes whether they have them, and the specific ways children get it wrong.
Class 4
- Multiplication as equal groups
- Reading a number line
- Subtraction as difference, not take-away
- What a fraction actually means
Class 5
- Equivalent fractions
- Factors and multiples
- Generalising a pattern
- Long division, conceptually
- Order of operations (BODMAS)
- Place value with decimals
Class 6
- Adding fractions with unlike denominators
- Dividing fractions (why do we flip?)
- HCF and LCM, and when to use which
- Multiplying fractions
- Negative numbers on a number line
- Ratio, and why it isn't a fraction
- What a variable actually means
Class 7
- Algebraic expressions vs equations
- Forming an equation from a word problem
- Integer multiplication sign rules
- Percentage as a fraction of a whole
- Speed, distance and time
- Unitary method
Class 8
- Solving linear equations (the balance idea)
Class 9
- Coordinate geometry basics