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Path of Discovery Series 3: I Do and I Understand

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Marion Bond recommends that children should be allowed to use 'apparatus', so that they can physically handle the numbers involved in their calculations, for longer, or across a wider ability band,. . . .

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Path of Discovery Series: 2. First Steps

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This article takes a closer look at some of the toys and games that can enhance a child's mathematical learning.

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Calendar Capers

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Choose any three by three square of dates on a calendar page. Circle any number on the top row, put a line through the other numbers that are in the same row and column as your circled number. Repeat. . . .


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