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• Many concrete resources
• Pre-school child learning approach
• Neuro-didactic recommendations
• Interactivity: Do, Talk, Think
• Three visible learning levels
• Instruction: weaknessess and illusions
• Way forward
• Review of forthcoming videos

• Requirements for effective learning
• Summarise impulse activities, concrete basis
• Mention concrete resources
• The three basic principles of Quantity, Counting, Arithmetic
• Guaranteeing success

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22nd April 2021

• Common problems and how to avoid them
• Counting up from zero
• Counting down
• Counting in tens
• Introduction to illustrative level
• Bouns 1: Great challenge
• Bouns 2: Fruit and vegetable fun

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06th May 2021

Measuring and counting; Hands-on approach to estimating with lots of mathematical discussion, requiring agreement in pairs or groups; Estimating to the nearest ten

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20th May 2021

Children adore these. Hands-on counting experience leading to early addition, subtraction and comparing quantities. Invitation to early mental arithmetic. Terrific array of dice. Lots of game variations with 1, 2, 3… dice. Also covers many mathematical concepts.

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3rd June 2021

Hands-on concrete start progressing through illustrative to written and concept appreciation. Plenty of spoken practice with the child determining the individual way forward. Ingenious time-saving monitoring system which also promotes learning

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24th June 2021

Enabling the learner to abstract from concrete through illustrative to written supplemented with early mental arithmetic development. Eventually covering written addition.

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15th July 2021

Similar to Decomposition Addition but with essential variations. Hands-on concrete start progressing through illustrative to written and concept appreciation. Plenty of spoken practice with the child determining the individual way forward. Ingenious time-saving monitoring system which also promotes learning

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29th July 2021

Leads to the child’s discovery of the essential links between addition and subtraction, the importance of zero (identity) through concrete situations – simple to complex and much manipulation of non-algebraic equations.

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12th August 2021

• Review currently available concrete resources
• Introduce Mathy Mats and alternatives
• Dice
• Transition to illustrative and written

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02nd September 2021

Stabilising and reinforcing BUNDLE and EXCHANGE in addition and subtraction. Development of complexity level is determined by the learner. Extensive use of the many dice options.

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16th September 2021

Addition at concrete level – refined to written level – encouragement of mental arithmetic: Children can self-check results. Novel time-saving self-testing and assessment approach.

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30th September 2021

Subtraction at concrete level – refined to written level – encouragement of mental arithmetic: Children can self-check results. Novel time-saving self-testing and assessment approach

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14th October 2021

A good selection of card and dice games and activities that the children adore. Counting, addition, subtraction, base 10. Touching on multiplication.

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28th October 2021

System Overview, Activity Grid, Portfolio, Current Folder, Home-School Connection, Home Activities, Planning and Organisation

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11th November 2021

System Overview, “Learning is individual and a continuum.”

Monitoring and Assessment System, Self-Testing

Restrictive Practices in Education Systems

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9th December 2021

Essential spoken concrete basis with children abstracting to illustrative and then written and mental. Building on success. Multiples are the essential base for multiplication. Appreciating pattern and the continuous nature.

Possibly to be released as two videos.

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RECTANGLE – That’s all that’s needed! Concrete to Illustrative to written accompanied by spoken and development of mental capacity.

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RECTANGLE – That’s all that’s needed! Concrete to Illustrative to written accompanied by spoken and development of mental capacity.

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