Workshops:


Mathematics

At Superior Tutors we help children to develop their skills in Numeracy by focusing on the five strands as identified in the National Numeracy Strategy.
The five strands are:

Numbers and the number system

• Counting
• Properties of number and number sequences, including negative numbers
• Place value and ordering, including reading and writing numbers
• Estimating and rounding
• Fractions, decimals and percentages, and their equivalence; ratio and proportion

Calculations

• Understanding number operations and their relationships
• Rapid mental recall of number facts
• Mental calculations, including strategies for deriving new facts from known facts
• Pencil and paper methods
• Using a calculator
• Checking that results of calculations are reasonable
  

Solving Problems

• Making decisions: deciding which operation and method of calculation to use
• Reasoning about numbers or shapes and making general statements about them
• Solving problems involving numbers in context: ‘real life’, money, measures
• Measures, Shape and Space
• Measures, including choosing units and reading scales
• Properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes, position, direction and movement
• Handling Data
• Collecting, presenting and interpreting numerical data etc.