I Can't Do Maths!: Why children say it and how to make a difference

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Our DIY Maths Feast uses the same material as our face-to-face Maths Feast, so your students won’t gain additional benefit from attending both types of Maths Feast.

You don’t need to be an expert to support your child with maths or help them develop a good sense of number! Here are three simple but effective learning ideas that you can try with your child at home. Make ‘×’ ‘÷’ and ‘10’, ‘100’, ‘1000’ cards to place face down in two piles. Roll a dice four times to create a number (e.g. 4258), then insert a decimal point somewhere (e.g. 42.58). Take a card from each pile and do the calculation (e.g. 42.58 ÷ 100 = 0.4258). Unlike our face-to-face Maths Feast, there’s no limit to the number of teams that a school can enter into their DIY Maths Feast and entering different sized teams to fit with your situation is acceptable.Print out the resource to be used in maths books or load it onto a digital platform. It will be a great record of their learning either way. It’s designed to be used independently by your Year 7-8 students. It could be used as a follow-up from explicit teaching or a task for students to work through and problem-solve as they go. COVERS 95+ CURRICULUM-BASED TOPICS: Our WJEC Maths Foundation and Intermediate GCSE Revision Guide covers over 95 relevant topics and is suitable for the WJEC GCSE exam board specifications. SIMPLE LANGUAGE: Our WJEC Maths Foundation and Intermediate GCSE Revision Guide contains concise definitions, simple language and useful examples that make it the perfect learning aid for improving students' knowledge and academic confidence in GCSE Maths. Informative content and simple language ensure that all pupils will be able to gain a greater understanding of both theory-based and practical topics.

Welcome to MathsDIY. I’m Kerry, a maths teacher with over 25 years experience including as Head of Mathematics. During these years I have helped literally hundreds (probably thousands) of students right through from year 3 up to those crucial years of GCSE and A level maths exams. Furthermore, exams change all the time. So revision guides that were great five years ago are now out of date because the exam specifications are so different. Just be careful.SIMPLE LANGUAGE: Our WJEC Maths Higher GCSE Revision Guide contains concise definitions, simple language and useful examples that make it the perfect learning aid for improving students' knowledge and academic confidence in GCSE Maths. Informative content and simple language ensure that all pupils will be able to gain a greater understanding of both theory-based and practical topics. We’ll be exploring how using volumes of cubes, cuboids and right prisms will help you to plan out a stage or arena for your large-scale event.