Reasoning & thinking skills
Have you read any of the comments in italics on your child's school report recently?
Problem solving
These puzzles will help improve problem solving and thought processes.
"Knows tables but must concentrate on how to use them"
"Needs more help with problem solving"
"Knows basic four rules but must work more quickly"
Confidence
These puzzles will help to increase confidence and hence concentration.
"Needs to increase confidence in his own abilities”
“Still needs to be more self confident”
“Work more quickly and with confidence”
WORDS
“must extend vocabulary”
“improve spelling and presentation”
Spatial awareness and reasoning powers
“be aware of all the implications to the question”
“be able to solve a problem in more than one way”
Lateral thinking
“Needs to think around a problem”
“Must extend range of thought and thinking processes”
“Must develop more extended thought processes”
“Must develop the ability to predict results”
Logic
“Be systematic and logical in approaching work”
“Show the logic in arriving at their answer”
“Think slowly and with care to arrive at the correct answer”
Fun maths
Many more ideas on the Fun maths page
Maths can be fun...especially if you work together.
There are many more ideas to stimulate your children. Here are some examples. These iideas will be helpful and they will encourage children to keep thinking and learning whilst enjoying themselves.
Quizzes
Most children love doing puzzles. It is fun to have a family quiz after a meal together. Children and grandchildren enjoy participating and it is a useful learning curve if you work in teams. Here they earn to challenge each other and learn to win as well as 'lose'.
For lots more quizzes, use the search box and type in quiz,
Christmas fun
Royal Family activities
These papers were written for the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth 11. You may still enjoy completing them and discovering details about her reign..