Bar Modelling in Key Stage 1, A4 book

Bar Modelling Book, 60pp A4. This is the book for anyone wishing to introduce Bar Modelling to their class in a structured way.

It takes you through from the very beginning and explains in simple terms all the types of bar children are likely to meet before the leave Year 2.

“I’m Stuck!”

Could seeing Word Problems as transactions actually help? Every teacher will have come face-to-face with this from their students, and most likely on a very regular basis during maths lessons. I am working with a few children at the moment for whom this seems to be the default setting – almost as though they look […]

Practical Resources in Primary Maths Classrooms

This weekend, I was tagged in a tweet from @KCost, asking what practical maths equipment people would recommend for primary schools, given a budget of just £100 per class. Straight away the budget restriction means that some hard choices would have to be made, and this was the gist of my immediate tweeted response. But […]