Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Double your work in half the time

Repetition is needed to acuire the skill.
Too often I hear the statement do 1 hours homework per night.
Your not an employee, your self employed, its about how much your achieve work faster and more efficiently. Get speed first.
If your weak with your tables, have this image close, even laminate it.

Get your work space organizes, pens, ruler paper, work in columns, rule off after problems, show all working until you have FULL understanding or the problem.
Line up = signs, line up + signs horizontally and vertically, work on grid paper if you need to..

Instead of 30 problems in 1 hour do 60 in half an hour.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Factors of

Multiples and Factors can be problematic from a language point of view.
What is the Question asking for?

Remember, Multiply is bigger, divide is less if bigger than 1

Examining a number square helps.
http://www.primaryinteractive.co.uk/online/numbersquare.swf