I'm Zoe and I'm a qualified primary school teacher with 24 years experience in KS1 and KS2 and 4 years tutoring Y3-Y7.
21/04/2026
🌟 Understanding equivalent fractions- making the link between concrete materials and numbers written down.
🌟Understanding the relationship between multiplication and division- making arrays using glass pebbles.
25/03/2026
My students love Bananagrams! 🍌
I use it as a good warm up game to help with spellings.
03/03/2026
A great start to the week ✅
Using bar models to help with finding fractions of amounts.
Moving the digits when multiplying by 10 and 100
Playing a homemade board game to help with arithmetic- land on red, answer an addition question, land on yellow, answer a subtraction question and so on.
17/01/2026
Practical teaching
Circles
Visually seeing the relationship between the diameter and the circumference.
Great understanding
01/12/2025
You can’t beat homemade games. As always lots of fun we have playing Broom Dash and Tug of War. Helping children with times tables and negative numbers.
15/10/2025
😃 Face to face tutoring is fantastic for using concrete materials to help with learning.
▪️Cubes for working out the volume of cuboids
🧮 Numicon for seeing doubles
💗Mini marshmallows for syllables in words
🫧 Bubble write on mat for letter formation
07/07/2025
Bringing back a retro game that I used to play when I was young and using it in a maths lesson. Alongside the game, she had to pick a counter. The colour of the counter determined how many goes to have and whether she had to answer a maths question. We had so much 🤩 fun!
04/03/2025
Who says you can’t mix playdough with maths?
Works really well when teaching fractions.
Understanding mixed numbers and improper fractions and fractions of amounts.
When you can see the maths, learning becomes easier.
14/02/2025
Chocolate buttons 😋
Using these as concrete resources to support the understanding of improper fractions and mixed numbers.
21/01/2025
Understanding the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages.
16/01/2025
My students love a handmade game
It’s a bit like Tic,Tac,Toe where you have to get a straight line of 3 to win. On each turn, a tricky multiplication fact must be answered.
This really helps with maths fluency.