| What on earth has movement got to do with | | | | |
| maths? Surely movement is to do with physical | | | | For example with the 3times table; 1x3 is 3, 2x3 is 6, |
| education or sports and not maths! | | | | 3x3 is 9, right up to 12x3 is 36. |
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| When children are moving about they are happy. | | | | The Learning Well has designed a system which is |
| Children therefore love movement and are always in | | | | the simplest, easiest most efficient way of learning |
| perpetual motion whenever they have the choice. | | | | the multiplication tables and it uses movement. |
| | | | | Because it involves movement it therefore creates |
| The problem with Maths is that it is mostly learned | | | | motivation and a willingness to learn. |
| by sitting still with children trying to get the number | | | | |
| work into their heads whilst at the same time doing | | | | The system is based on memory sheets. The sheets |
| something that is not natural to them .i.e. being still. | | | | are placed by the children around the home in |
| | | | | different locations. The locations and memory sheets |
| Being still is therefore not the best way to learn | | | | are then revisited on many occasions in order to |
| especially for children. | | | | learn the tables. More difficult tables are put in more |
| | | | | unusual places, often somewhere that will cause |
| Motion creates emotion and if you move about it can | | | | children to laugh, for example the toilet. This makes |
| change how you feel, in children’s case it makes | | | | the tables more fun to learn and they are therefore |
| them happy and if children are happy they are much | | | | more memorable. Fun and learning maths! |
| more likely to be motivated to work harder and for | | | | |
| longer. | | | | When you test your children if they are not sure of |
| | | | | the tables, they just go back and have a look again. |
| If you could find a way of bringing movement into | | | | |
| learning maths this would improve motivation and | | | | So in the process of walking around the home and |
| therefore learning and greatly enhance the speed at | | | | having a look at the tables; your child is moving, |
| which children learn maths. | | | | having fun, being motivated and this makes learning |
| | | | | maths much easier. |
| The question arises how on Earth can movement be | | | | |
| applied to the learning of maths? | | | | Remember, motion creates emotion. If you use this |
| | | | | principle linking motion, movement and having fun to |
| In fact there is a way and I want to give you an | | | | maths, then the end result is instant learning of |
| example using multiplication tables. | | | | maths and in our example the tables. |
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| As we are all aware the usual way that children are | | | | Other areas of maths can be learned in a similar way |
| taught tables is to get them to sit still and cram into | | | | using movement to motivate. |
| their minds by using rote learning. | | | | |