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Parents: Start helping your kids discover wonder in maths today

September 24, 2021May 6, 2022Oxford Education 1 Comment
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International Maths Teaching Lead, Adil Jaffer shows parents three easy ways to encourage joy and curiosity through maths in the home.

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Lockdown Snakes and Ladders: Encouraging positive outcomes in home learning

February 15, 2021February 25, 2021Oxford Science Team
Lockdown learning: snakes and ladders

A game of snakes and ladders – that is how my 9-year-old son describes lockdown. This piqued my interest, and I was drawn away from my online virtual marking and gazed at him across the kitchen table to ask him to explain his metaphor.  Zac is in Year 5 in an expanding multiphase academy, where […]

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