Explore every episode of the podcast MathsMuscles for busy parents

Following on from the previous episode, Kerry looks at how families can keep Maths in Year 6, a calm and positive experience. From her Maths tutor perspective, she explains some of the traps many families fall into as they help their children to prepare for the KS2 Maths SATs. Sharing another of her MathsMuscles tuition techniques, Kerry identifies ways that Year 6 families can avoid these traps and unnecessary stress. [Music: written by Kerry Haw. Audio: thanks to Rob Toulson for help and advice].

From her maths tutor perspective, Kerry describes the 3 different maths papers that make up the Key Stage 2 national maths tests. She shares her MathsMuscles tuition techniques, which parents can then use as they help their children prepare for the Year 6 May SATs week. Kerry also explains the difference between raw scores and scaled scores, and how children’s final results follow them into Key Stage 3 and GCSE at High school.

Kerry explores two ‘maths myths’ about how children build strong skills in mathematics. She explains from her maths tutor perspective why she doesn’t believe in these myths, and asks parents to re-think the importance of children memorising times tables and not using their fingers to count. [Music: written by Kerry Haw, Audio: thanks to Rob Toulson for help and advice]

Kerry shares the top two questions that parents ask her about children learning maths today. She shares her MathsMuscles perspective by answering them and explores why handling change well, is key to supporting children with their maths. [Music: written by Kerry Haw. Audio: thanks to Rob Toulson for help and advice.]

Kerry reveals her 1st MathsMuscles tuition technique to help parents cope more easily with the responsibility of homeschooling children in maths during the Coronavirus pandemic; outlining how to divide your time between 2, 3 or more children and encourage each child to work independently. She explains how to boost your children’s maths skills ready for when they return to school for classroom tests and exams, by focusing on one key maths topic in particular. So whether your children are in primary school, high school or college, following today’s tuition technique should keep your children on target to reach their full maths potential no matter what their age or stage of learning. Kerry also talks about keeping this year’s GCSE students, the Year 11s, focusing on the next stage of their education and transferring all of her MathsMuscles private tuition maths students to online tuition.

Kerry gives her thoughts on why working on maths together leads to tension and arguments between parents and children. Kerry then shares two of her MathsMuscles tuition techniques to prevent maths from causing any more family arguments in your home. [ Music: written by Kerry Haw. Audio: thanks to Rob Toulson for help & advice]