Word Problems: Learning to Choose the Operation Before Calculating
Why pupils add every number in the problem, and how to teach them to understand the situation before calculating.
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Practical advice for running a game on the board and addressing pupils’ common mistakes.
Getting the Whole Class Playing on One Interactive Whiteboard
One board, thirty pupils: how to organize teams and turns so that everyone is thinking during the game.
Read the articleLearning to Tell Time: Five Common Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Swapped hands, the wrong hour, misread minutes, 12-hour or 24-hour time, durations: five classic mistakes and practical ideas for the classroom.
Read the articleParallel or Perpendicular: Why Pupils Mix Them Up
Neatly upright lines hide the real concept. How to help pupils identify and check parallel and perpendicular lines.
Read the articleWritten Calculation: Spotting and Fixing Carrying Mistakes
Forgotten carrying, swapped digits, zeros in subtraction: how to read a pupil’s mistake and choose the right next step.
Read the articleZero in Numbers: Why 705 Becomes 75 or 7005
Writing 705 the way it sounds trips up many pupils. Where these mistakes come from and how to work on place value.
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