10/09/2025
HOW CAN YOU HELP AS A PARENT?
‘I’m rubbish at maths.’ … ‘I couldn’t even help with their primary school homework’ … ‘I wouldn’t even know where to start.’
Pretty much every parent I meet with tells me some variation of the above!
Firstly, by seeking tuition, you are already going above and beyond for your child, by adding yet another after school activity to a hectic week, and taking responsibility for their education before it’s too late 👏🏼
And you can help with maths in more ways than you probably realise! Almost every student I meet has a gap in their knowledge from when they were much younger, that was never ironed out. I will discuss the most common below.
-Negative numbers. I meet so many students who can fly through trigonometry and simultaneous equations, but negative numbers trip them up frequently!
This is a great starting point if you want to practice something at home. Print out a number line for every room of the house. Practice simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with numbers below zero (I can provide worksheets if needed).
Link them to every day scenarios: ‘if you’ve already borrowed £5 from me, and then you borrow another £12, how much do you owe me?’(-5 - 12).
-Timestables! Repeat them. Over and over again!
-Basic methods of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Another really common pitfall.
-Improving general fluency with numbers, pattern recognition, and inverse operations: ‘if 10 x 5= 50, then 50/5 must be…’
And the big one- encouraging slow, calm and thorough thought processing, checking for mistakes, and not trying to finish every task as quickly as possible. This is something we all struggle with in society as a whole, and it definitely impacts how students perform in exams!
Please do ask any questions you may have. Anyone who’s met me knows I have no problem yapping away, and am always happy to help ♥️ or book yourself in for a few sessions too 😉
