Banging my head up against a brick wall!

[Yorkiegirl]

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How old are they in yr5 YG?

sympathy Yorkiegirl. I remember my struggles with a y1 class and the symbols for more than/less than - eeeaaaargh!

oh no - they either get or or they dont....
very infuriating....
now if i were back at work...

do you still want that literacy stuff btw???

Don't beat yourself up Yorkie girl I got blank states when I did this with my sixth form biologists! That is secondary sixth. ARGGGGGHHHHH

I thought going metric was supposed to make it simpler.

I can still remember -
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
22 yards = 1 chain ( a cricket pitch)!
1760 yards = 1 mile

YG, does it help you that I was doing this with Y11 yesterday and some were struggling?

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Have you tried bringing in few measuring tapes and having them apply it to something real...ie measure their desks, room, each other, etc.

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sorry, should have realized that you would have thought of that already. My stepdaughter is absolutely useless at maths (and she is by no means dumb). It never ceases to amaze me the simple math concepts that she can't get her head around.