What is a number line?
Number lines explained for primary-school parents, including their use in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations.
What is 'shared between'?
The term 'shared between' explained for primary-school parents and ideas for the types of division problems children might be asked to solve.
What are number bonds?
Number bonds explained for primary school parents | How number bonds help with addition | Key Stage 1 numeracy | KS1 maths
How maths teaching has changed since we were at school
How maths teaching has changed in primary schools in the past 20 to 30 years
Teachers' tricks for money maths
Teachers' tricks for money maths | Learning about money in primary schools | Money maths for kids | Teaching children about money | TheSchoolRun.com
What is Numicon?
What is Numicon? | Primary school maths aids: Numicon explained | TheSchoolRun.com
What is place value?
What is place value? | Place value explained for primary school children | Primary school maths: units, tens, hundreds and thousands | TheSchoolRun.com
Learning maths in the great outdoors
Getting their hands dirty can help children discover a passion for maths. Here’s how to make the subject work outside the classroom.
Best time-teaching products
Fabric calendars, see-through clocks and other great teaching products to help children learn to tell the time on analogue and digital clocks.
Teach your child to read a clock
How to teach your primary school child to tell the time using an analogue clock.
What is bridging through 10?
The bridging through 10 mental maths strategy explained for primary-school parents.
Best maths board games for children
Best maths board games for children: brilliant games to help practise times tables, the four operations, place value, coin recognition and more.
What is the bar model method?
The bar model method, taught in Singapore maths, explained for parents.
What is a block graph?
Block graphs or block diagrams explained for primary-school parents, with examples of how children are taught to use and read them in the classroom.
Teachers’ tricks for learning times tables
Tips and tricks to help children learn the multiplication tables, as suggested by a primary-school teacher.
What is the concrete pictorial abstract approach in maths?
The concrete > pictorial > abstract (CPA) method in maths explained for parents, including examples of how it is used in the primary-school classroom.