DianaE2022-10-31T17:37:54+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories, Parent Advice, Primary School Learning
Legos: The Building Blocks of Math Believe it or not, having a bunch of Legos all of the floor could be a way to help your younger child develop important math skills. These colorful building blocks can help build your child’s confidence in math at an early ..
DianaE2022-10-29T00:36:47+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning
Battleship Sunk! – Using The Game of Battleship To Practice Graphing Students will be so excited to challenge each other in a new version of the famous game of Battle Ship that they won’t even realize they are learning! Battleship is a game based on coordinates. ..
DianaE2022-10-31T19:50:52+11:00Posted in All Categories, Concentration & Focus, Motivation & Interest, Parent Advice, Primary School Learning
Sarah knew a few very important facts about Andrew before they ever sat down for their first tutoring session. She knew, based on the phone call with Andrew’s mom, that he liked Star Wars, the color green, and that zebras are his favorite animals. To some, these may ..
Gene2022-10-31T19:28:23+11:00Posted in All Categories, Parent Advice, Primary School Learning
Children can learn to count, add, subtract, divide and multiply all before they can read. This is because it can be taught at such a young age. There are a lot of different ways to tutor arithmetic to young students, but the most effective ways are the ones ..
Markus Curry2022-10-31T17:33:44+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning
Tutoring is always going to be a fun and rewarding experience as we get to help students to overcome their difficulties with our own teaching skills. Naturally, the problems experienced by a student in primary school and high school are going to be very different, and therefore we ..
Gene2022-11-16T22:03:16+11:00Posted in All About Exams, All Categories, Parent Advice, Primary School Learning
What is NAPLAN? There has been a lot of emphasis on NAPLAN since its introduction in 2008. NAPLAN is the National Assessment Program on Literacy And Numeracy, and it is standardised testing Australia-wide for students in grade 3, 5, 7 and 9. The NAPLAN testing aims to ..
Gene2025-01-04T03:15:10+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning
How to help a child to remember their times-tablesThere are a lot of methods you could use to tutor students to memorise multiplication. Students may find it more enjoyable to use games or to race against the clock 🕒. You can find dozens of tricks and tips ..
Gene2025-01-04T03:01:44+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning
🔍 Struggling with Mental MathI am having a little difficulty teaching my student mental math and adding strategies. She still counts on her fingers. She cannot add 9 and 4, she would have to count on her fingers. Last lesson I politely banned her from using her fingers ..
EzyMath2024-12-28T06:01:06+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning, Relationships: Parent, Student &Tutor
I can never manage to stop my student in year 6 from talking about her friends and experiences with math. Is there a way I can politely tell her to stop talking and listen? Interesting situation. It is great that you have a strong enough ..
EzyMath2024-12-25T00:11:16+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning
I am starting with a new student who is in year 4, is there anything I should prepare in particular regarding math problems, or should I concentrate on their text book they use at school?In year 4 they may not have a text book. If ..
