Making Sense Tutoring

Lots of connections made in a maths session today. Using resources really helps cement conceptual understanding.

I have space for a new tutee on a Monday starting in May. If your primary aged child needs a little bit of extra help with learning in a laid back, multi sensory way get in touch. Get in touch if you have any queries.

It feels inevitable this time of year that things will have a festive twist. Exploring syllables, silent letters and spelling rules today.

Investigation time today- how many different ways can you find half? This led to lots of discussion about area, perimeter, angles symmetry, lots of ruler skills and finding fractions of numbers when using the ruler.

Helping a visual learner with tricky words- they identified the ‘tricky’ part of the word and made it a different colour. This super star learner could even spell ‘appreciate’ backwards with their eyes closed after this session…. amazing!

It has been. FAR too long since I posted anything. Today’s session had a handwriting and letter formation focus alongside some spelling skills. Using a multi sensory approach helped this young person.

Goodness I have been so lax with this page of late and am rubbish at remembering to take photos! A few recent ones…. developing science and reading skills and being flexible and dynamic to adapt my sessions to meet the needs of the child in the moment.

Tapping in to the visual memory for one of my lovely learners. She creates a whole story to go with a number fact. And it’s working… she’s retained 3 different square number facts so far using this method.

Been very quiet lately… here’s a few pictures from recent sessions. Lots of fun, practical learning.

A theme this week has been the topic of ‘timed tests’ and how this can lead to maths anxiety or ‘brain mush’ as one of my tutees described it.
Timing children to test fluency is all well and good but if they haven’t yet grasped the understanding and don’t have the fluency then timing can cause all kinds of problems.

Tips for Tackling Timed Tests and Math Anxiety You can’t make timed tests go away, but you can help make the stress more manageable for students.