Numeracy Hotshots: A Group Teaching Session Developing All Our Numeracy Skills!

Learners can expect to enjoy discussions, games, puzzles and other activities and will cover several topics per class from the accompanying list below. This class is designed to promote fluency and regular recap opportunities for learners in all-round numeracy skills. This will vary from week-to-week based on the schedule below and learners' and parents' requests, preferences and need identified in previous classes.

Classes will rotate weekly as follows:

Week 1 -  Sept 2nd, Oct 7th, Nov 4th, Dec 2nd: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division and Order of Operations with integers, negative numbers and decimals

Week 2 - Sept 9th, Oct 14th, Nov 11th, Dec 9th: Fractions, Decimals & Percentages, Probability

Week 3 - Sept 16th, Oct 21st, Nov 18th, Dec 16th: Factors, Multiples, HCF, LCM, Prime Numbers, Ratio and Special Numbers

Week 4 - Sept 23rd, Oct 28th, Nov 25th, Dec 23rd: Rounding, Estimation, Working with Decimals, Standard Form

Week 5 - Sept 30th, Dec 30th: Currency  and Questions on Money, Real-Life Maths

Topics in this class will also tailor to learners' needs. Students and parents are invited to contact me on enrolment and/or weekly to inform me of any particular numeracy topics which need particular attention.

I invite learners to share what they already know, what they find tricky and how they see the problem. We will go through concrete examples, move onto working independently then enjoy fun tasks, rapidly gaining confidence. Games, puzzles and quizzes are purposeful tasks which I like to include as well as looking at misconceptions and exam-style questions.

Sharing our own homework tasks, mistakes and wins is also very useful in deepening learners' understanding so students are encouraged to share as much as possible with myself and each other the specifics of what they are working on, any clips and links to useful resources and using our discussions to help each other.

Topics will include:
Methods of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Subtraction
Mental Arithmetic Methods
Factors & Multiples
Order of Operations
Rounding
Decimals
Everything on Fractions, Decimals & Percentages
Exponents/Index Laws
Special Numbers
Negative Numbers
Estimation
Currency Conversions
Ratio