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Help your child to feel exam ready with a simple and effective revision strategy that really works!

 

Our approach is simple. It’s effective. It’s for everyone. It works.

  • Knowledge
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Oxford Revise Revision Guides have been created by subject experts alongside cognitive science specialists. They combine everything needed for effective revision, all in one place. The Revision Guides are available for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-Level.

Each Revision Guide follows these 3 simple steps:

  • Knowledge: Start each revision session with a Knowledge Organiser, which presents and explains all the key information needed.
  • Retrieval: Check how much they have really learned with some quick-fire recall questions on the Knowledge Organiser. They can test knowledge of previous chapters to make sure that the information sticks.
  • Practice: We’ve included loads of practice exam-style questions so that they can get exam-ready!

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For young children, practise is key to keeping their emerging understanding of how numbers work at their fingertips.

In this post, I have pulled together my top 5 games, collected from a variety of people and places, and tried and tested on my own children! If played regularly over time, they will help your child get to know their number facts.

1. Count all and Count on

These games can help your child practise counting up to 12.

For Count all, you will need two dice with spots. If you don’t have any, you can adapt a numbered dice by putting stickers over the numbers and drawing dots from 1–6.ÌýTake it in turns to roll the dice and count the spots to find the total.ÌýThis will help your child to recognise patterns and to accurately count items that cannot be moved.

Once your child is familiar with this, you can try Count on.ÌýYou will need to use two dice: one dotty die, and one die with numbers.ÌýTake it in turns to roll both dice.  Start with the numbered dice, then count on the number of spots shown. This will help your child connect the number symbols with the quantity they represent.

For more help with counting, why not try this simple Numicon activity:

Video: Counting with Numicon

In this short video, Louise Pennington shows you how to teach a child to count with Numicon and other manipulatives.

2. Bunny Rabbit Ears

This game will help your child learn the number bonds within 10.ÌýIt is ideal for two or more players (my twins used to love playing this in the car!).

The first player says, ‘Bunny rabbit ears…’ and then a number between 1 and 10.ÌýBoth players then make that number using their fingers as quickly as possible and put them on their head – like ears – to show the other players.ÌýFor example, ‘Bunny rabbit ears five’ could result in the combinations 0 + 5, 1 + 4, 2 + 3, or the reverse.

As children get used to playing, encourage them to play without looking, keeping their hands in position. This encourages them to visualise and develop mental calculation skills.

3. Memory for 10!

This is a game for two or more players, and it practises adding within 10.

You will need these playing cards: one Ace (to use as a 1), one of each number card 2–9, and two 5s.ÌýShuffle the cards and place them face down on a table in two rows.ÌýThe first player turns over a card and says what number is needed to make a total of 10, before turning over another card.

If the total makes 10, they keep the cards. If the cards do not total 10, turn both cards back over and the second player has a turn.ÌýContinue playing until all the pairs to 10 are found.ÌýThe winner is the player with the most cards when they have all been picked up.

4. What’s in the bag?

This simple game for two or more children practises adding and subtracting within 10. You can extend the range up to 20 if your child is good at it!

Put 10 of the same item (for example, building bricks, stones, or small figurines) in a bag or under a piece of cloth.ÌýOne player takes out some items and puts them on the table for the other player to see. They then have to work out how many items are still in the bag.

Put some of the items back in the bag. Say how many are in the bag now.ÌýTake it in turns to take items out of the bag, with the other player saying how many are left.

5. Place Value Uno

Play this game with Uno cards (or normal playing cards with the face cards removed).

Each player has 2 or 3 piles, depending on if you are working on 10s or 100s. They must turn over the top card from each pile.ÌýThe players must all say the resulting numbers out loud. For example, for a 6 and a 3, the player would say ‘sixty three’.

The player with the highest number wins the cards.ÌýFor a fun variation, allow players to use the cards they turn over to create the highest possible number.

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Revision can be fun… yes, really

“Revision doesn’t just mean poring over a revision guide or completing a practice paper. This week I’m going to share some ways of preparing for the KS2 national tests that might actually be (whisper it) fun.â€

Hello, I’m James Clements. For ten years, I worked as a teacher and deputy head at a successful primary school in West London. For seven of those years I taught Year 6. As well as making sure the children I taught achieved their very best, a big part of my job was working with parents so that they could help their children in the final year of primary school. I’m also the parent of two small children.

Revision doesn’t just mean poring over a revision guide or completing a practice paper. This week I’m going to share some ways of preparing for the KS2 national tests that might actually be (whisper it) fun.

Writing a test paper

Setting a question or paper quiz for someone else can be a great revision activity for children. This might focus on one area of the curriculum (writing a maths test, for example) or a Year 6 quiz, with questions from different areas of the curriculum, including parts that aren’t tested by the SATs like history, geography or science. Of course, any test they make will require the child to create a detailed mark sheet with the correct answers on it too. If you’re the parent sitting the quiz and you get some questions wrong, you just might need your child to sit and show you how to work out the right answer, something that is really useful for building their understanding.

Family learning challenge

Set the whole family the challenge of learning one new thing per day. If you’re helping your child to prepare for the tests, it might a particular times table, a fiendish spelling, a new word to use in their writing or something tricky from the grammar and punctuation test. Don’t forget to check that they can remember it the next day.

Highlighters

Never ever underestimate the power of a colourful highlighter pen to an 11-year-old. Highlighting number facts or spelling words on a chart that everyone can see or in a special book is a great way of recording progress. And making progress visible makes children feel good about their learning, something that will hold them in good stead at secondary school.

Beat the calculator

If they’re really good at their multiplication tables, a child should be able to come up with the answer to anything up to 12 x 12 before someone else can type it into a calculator. This works well as a competition with a friend, parent or even a younger sibling doing the typing. And of course the parent has to have a go against the calculator too. It’s only fair.

Make a ‘how to…’ film

The internet is full of films that explain different areas of the curriculum – from long division to the tricky-to-remember bits of grammar. If your child is struggling with one particular area, you could make a film of it ‘to help other people’. The process of choosing an example, writing a script and then filming it might be enough to make it stick.

Reading

This is one of the simplest and most educationally-valuable ways a child can spend their time. Extended reading time is great for developing children’s fluency and comprehension, building their vocabulary and their general knowledge. It also helps to support their writing. And sometimes we need to give children time to do it so that they can see it’s an enjoyable thing to do.

Want to read more?

Read James’ earlier posts here.

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The start of a new term is a great time to think about ways you can help your child with their schoolwork.

One key area you can really help your child with, whatever their age, is mental arithmetic. Mental arithmetic is being able to add, subtract, multiply and divide in your head and to solve problems using method and logic. These skills are the key foundations of maths skills, and speed and accuracy makes everything else in maths so much easier.

Building confidence in maths early on will pay back many times over. Repetitive learning increases confidence, improves speed and builds connections in the brain; skills that last a life time. Once your child has strong mental arithmetic abilities, they can tackle all sorts of problem solving.

Here are some fun and easy ideas of how you can support your child’s learning.

Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)

In Key Stage 1, your child will:

  • cover counting in twos, threes, fives and tens knowing both the multiplication and division facts for the twos, fives and tens multiplication tables
  • work out a number that is one more, or one less than a given number
  • work with number bonds to ten and twenty
  • add and subtract two-digit numbers
  • halve and double numbers.

Here are some ideas of how you can help them:

1. Flashcards

Don’t underestimate the need for repetition! It is amazing how many times a child needs to repeat times tables and number bonds before they are consolidated.

Flashcards are a great way of having fun while learning. Try taking them with you when you are out and about – spending a quick 5 minutes here and there can be fun and can make all the difference. Why not use the stopwatch on your phone for an element of challenge? Can they tell you the multiplication facts for the two times table in one minute? How about the division facts?

2. Number bond targets

Try this fun game to add, subtract or multiply to reach a target. Give your child a target of 10 and then shout out any one-digit number (including 0) and they have to add one other number to reach 10.

You can then vary this by making the target 0 and you shout out any one-digit number that they have to take away from 10 to reach 0. Once they know these bonds off by heart, try working with a target of 20.

3. Double and halve

This is a great game for waiting rooms, in the car – whenever you have a minute to spend. Say an even number and ask your child to double the number and then halve the number. Begin with a single-digit number, then up to 20 and then a multiple of 10.

Key Stage 2 (Years 3 to 6)

Your child will know their multiplication table from ones to twelves by the end of Year 4. They will be able to add and subtract three-digit numbers and to solve problems using more than one operation at a time.

Here are some fun ideas to support them with their learning:

1. More flashcards!

Flashcards continue to be a useful resource as your child gets older. There are many sets available, or it is easy to make your own.

Use the flashcards for all of the multiplication tables. Older children might enjoy seeing how many correct answers they can give in a set time. Doubling and halving bigger numbers and doubling and halving odd numbers are all brilliant ways of extending your child’s mental arithmetic skills.

Try these  from Bond.

2. Puzzles

Lots of puzzles require knowledge of number patterns. Puzzles such as Sudoku, number crosswords, maths mazes and number riddles are all excellent ways of learning by stealth!

Bond have a range of ‘brain training’ books and the number puzzles book is especially good for developing mental arithmetic. The  also has some free puzzles to try!

3. Logical thinking

Giving your child challenges that develop their logic and reasoning is perfect practice. Ask them to halve, double or triple a recipe, or to round up or down the cost of items in the supermarket and to give an estimated total. You could ask them to work out how much water to add to cordial, how many weeks of pocket money it would take to save up for something or how much the total cost will be at a café or day out.

4. Mental arithmetic games and apps

There are lots of great games and apps that make mental arithmetic more fun for children. Take a look at the free downloadable and interactive activities available on the 

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These flashcards provide rapid recall practice in all the times tables from 1 to 12, helping children to meet the new curriculum demands for Key Stage 2 maths. With questions on one side and the sum on the reverse, the flashcards can be used independently or with a parent, tutor or another child to quickly test knowledge. The cards also meet the new Year 5 requirements to understand square and cube numbers, extending these all the way up to 12 squared and cubed.

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