The 2006 update to the curriculum structure for the UK’s Primary National Strategy for Maths is finally out, about a month late.
You can see the updates here. We’ve been working towards this for a while and Hilary & Steve took a sneak peek at the draft curriculum back in May. It seems that not many of the fundamentals have changed, but a number of objectives have been consolidated to simplify them.
Maths with flying ants A new online service offers home tuition in mathematics for primary schoolchildren, writes Sue Leonard. An interactive maths program that is being used in hundreds of schools across the UK will be available in children’s’ homes from this month. Maths-Whizz is a primary teacher’s resource on CDRom.
Now Maths-Whizz. com offers an online tutoring services for computer savvy children aged 5 to 11, to help those struggling with maths or those just wanting to get ahead in class and tests. The service, which will costs parents £27.50 a month, says it can assess each child individually and help them progress at their own pace. The hope is that children will come to enjoy maths, using computer animations to study concepts such as subtraction, fractions and longdivision. (more…)