maths

Discovery Education today announced a brand-new competition to help parents boost children’s maths skills during the autumn half term holiday and beyond.

The DoodleLearning Autumn Competition encourages children to practise maths for just a few minutes each day, using the award-winning DoodleMaths app. Part of the Discovery Education family of services, DoodleMaths is designed to be...

My children are learning about their times tables at the moment, so I have been trying to come up with some more creative ways to teach them.

Today I decided to get out the tuff tray and whiteboard pens and draw up a times table grid. For some reason, the tuff tray seems to add an extra bit of fun to any activity. I could have just drawn this out on a piece of paper, but my daughter...

Discovery Education, the worldwide edtech leader whose resources ignite student curiosity and drive engagement in learning today announced the launch of a new digital learning challenge which helps parents and teachers boost children’s skills in maths and English.

The DoodleLearning Spring Challenge encourages children to practise maths and English for just a few minutes each day...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak outlines vision to ensure every young person has the maths skills they need to succeed.

• PM outlines vision to ensure every young person has skills they need to succeed
• Higher maths attainment will grow the economy, creating better-paid jobs and opportunity
• New expert group will lead review into how best to deliver maths to 18 for all –
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My children are loving maths activities at the moment, so we have been making some simple maths tuff trays. For this one, all I did was write the numbers 1-10 in both numerical and word form. Then I asked my children to draw a line to match up the words and numbers. This taught my children so many skills, like number and word recognition, plus they had lots of fun doing it.

If you...

My daughter is really loving maths at the moment and asked me if I could write her some sums for when she came home from school.

I decided to make this a bit more fun by using fish instead of numbers. By using an object instead of a number it also meant she needed to practice her counting skills.

My drawing skills aren’t fantastic so fish seemed to be an easy to thing to...

My son loves learning his times tables at the moment, so I thought I would make him a times table grid for him to fill in.

What you need for this activity

⬛️ Tuff tray or paper 🖊️ pens suitable to your surface 📏 ruler if you want the lines to be really neat

The longest part of creating this activity was creating the grid! If you want this to look perfect you can use a ruler...

My son loves cars so we try to include them in lots of our learning activities. For this activity we are learning about counting and measuring.

For this activity you need :

• Different sized cars, we used a variety from big trucks to little sports cars
• Lego blocks, the smaller bricks are better as you will use more and encourage them to count more.
• Paper
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In his first speech of 2023, the Prime Minister will set out his priorities for the year ahead and ambition for a better future for Britain.

In his first speech of 2023, the Prime Minister will set out his priorities for the year ahead and ambition for a better future for Britain.

The PM will commit to taking the necessary action to deliver for the long term on issues such as low...

First sever set of national data on children's times tables published, as Government announces new investment in maths teaching

The first ever set of national data , alongside new investment from Government in high quality maths teaching.

The data shows an average score of 20 out of 25, with full marks the most common score, and follows a new Multiplications Table Check sat by year 4...