Online Maths tuition mapped onto NC? Recommendations?

[StarlightMcKingsThree]

I came across a good one that wanted the child to do some proper written 'working out' before submitting answers online, but I can't find it now or remember what it was called.

So I am looking for that, plus others.

I have so far MathsWhizz which we might use but I'd like to find the best fit for ds and for what we hope to achieve.

Was it Conquer?
You definitely work out on paper from KS3 upwards but not sure about primary age.

Thanks, though no it wasn't.

It introduced working out right from the start and I'm aiming for KS1 atm.

It was, it was, it was!!!!

Hooray. Thank you streaky!!

There mathaletics , which also does a spelling game .
There my maths but don't know how young this goes to .
There bbc bitesize sites , that do all sort of subject .
There's also urbrainey , there also believe it or not education. Gov.uk/mathematics/ks1 .
Hope any of these might help .

You know there's a discount code for home educators, don't you? Though I can't remember what the current one is (we don't use Conquer any more).

No. I didn't know that. Thanks.

I'll send them an email and ask about it.

Thanks homework, I'll look at those too.

Someone on the HE board will know, I should think. I'll have a look too ...

Conquer maths - EDOTH
From April 13

There's a concession codes page on Education Otherwise forum - worth checking for other discounts .

Star don't pay for education resources there are so many online that you can print things off , for all sorts of subjects .
Also all the big museums in London have educational worksheets that are usually meant for schools that you can download and use as well , if he's a more tactical learner. They come at different learning levels as well . The great fire of London one for the London museum I think was really good for ks1 . So is the one one the children at war at imperial war museum .
Science got few good books that if you want will pull of shelves later , that do loads of practical experiments , with great explanations .
Don't pay for stuff when there so much on the web for free , you can even use school learning sites , some of these aren't protected

I'm a maths teacher and use this site a lot for ideas and resources. This is a post of stuff specifically for pupils and you will find plenty others in her blog.

mathematicsforstudents.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/questions-lots-of-questions/

Have you seen this discussion thread, btw, starlight?
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sponsored_discussions/1965418-Talk-to-Maths-Doctor-about-online-tutoring-200-John-Lewis-voucher-prize-draw

Ooh, thanks Our. I hadn't seen it.

Will have a look.

Thanks soni and zzzzz

Just did the mathswhizz free online assessment and ds came out with a maths age equivalent of 8years 3 months, which is about a year ahead of his age.

Though I'll probably only treat it as a number to be improved as have no idea how it is worked out.

DS liked Maths Whizz but didn't take to Mathletics. He ended up with a combination of Conquer and Khan (for further practice). Each to their own I suppose.

I think he'll like Conquer. But I'll probably just sign up to the month and see how it goes.

There was quite a bit of language requirement of the mathswhizz assessment imo.

Ah right. Can't remember much about Maths Whizz - it was 5 years ago that ds used it.

Mathswhizz is working fine to keep DS occupied while I have a wash and my coffee every morning. So it's used for 15-20 mins daily. I sure some Mums would just switch on CBBC for that time period iykwim.

However I couldn't recommend it as a complete curriculum, it's too boring and the language/literacy bar is set too high.

I like the free assessment, just because historically it's given me an easy demonstration of annual progress in a format I can print out and use in carrot meetings. DS has one area of maths related to his audio processing where he is really behind. Monitoring via mathswhizz shows we are narrowing this spike without sending me mad with boredom for demonstrating to the LA.

For daily Maths tution I'm using the Plymouth Uni curriculum CIMT, as I loved the ready prepared lesson plans and found them easy to adapt to a very visual & kinesthetic learning style for DS. We use paper and lego, cuisinaire rods etc for acquiring new concepts. Not every child needs this much "hands on" learning. It's a free offline curriculum. I feel it's very thorough. The quality of mathswhizz & mathletics doesn't come close to this offline curriculum I'm afraid.

Ds used mathletics last year and it covers even less of the full NC in real depth than Mathswhizz does. However the timed mental arthimetic area was useful. I didn't think it was worth the cost of a subscription once I took over the bill after he left his old school. (before he was on the whole school subscription as they liked to set homework that way). I felt it was very shallow, with no true explanations or checking understanding of concepts.

Sorry to give two non-recommendations, but these subscriptions are expensive and there are so many free resources out there.

Good points, bochead. Conquer was ds's main maths tool but I liked Whizz's monitoring charts, though he too found it a bit dull. It was more for a bit of variety than anything else. We used other online things as well, depending on interest.

For those who can cope with reading, there's a set of books by Kjartan Poskitt called Murderous Maths - very similar to Horrible Histories - which are fab .

zzzz we used that primary maths one on iPad - sure it was your recommendation. DS loves it. His rubbish m/s class teachers assumed he couldn't learn and didn't provide any differentiated work for him and he was falling further and further behind. We put this on his iPad and he learnt a years maths in about 6 weeks...showed the teacher up big time.

Star teacher sites like twinkl, sparklebox etc have free visual resources you can download. Also I found this one where teachers upload resources for sale but there is also a free section.

Don't forget the KS revision workbooks etc - you can often get cheap ones in The Works and can be useful to see how maths questions are phrased in different ways. You need to target language for maths as a separate programme really as its the word questions that trip our kids up. Even the instructions e.g. DS had to do a test which asked him to circle the right answer. He didn't understand what 'circle the right answer' meant so even though he knew the answers he couldn't complete the test independently.

Thanks all.

You're right Agnes, it is the language of maths where ds' fails.

He had a worksheet showing 10 sweets and was asked to circle half of the sweets. He circled half of every sweet on the worksheet.

If he was just asked what half of 10 was he would be able to answer immediately.