Teaching pills 2 - Fractions: Learning by playing

We are increasingly getting used to see our kids having access to a whole set of sophisticated (and expensive) tools designed to helping them study: laptops, next generation tablets and mobiles, digital blackboards, very advanced and complicated software, internet and so on. Nevertheless, I believe that the most important thing still is, and will always be, a passionate teacher and the will to learn of the students. You can encourage learning without any of these gadgets, and you can be very effective in breeding knowledge and attitudes with...

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Teaching pills 1: Primary Maths. The easy way to multiply

What I love of maths teaching is that you are, may be more than in any other subject, teaching a way of thinking. To be honest I don't really know how multiplying is usually taught in the UK, but in my country in most cases it's still regretfully taught as a memoristic skill, with tables from 1 to 10 that children need to memorize and repeat until they automatically can throw up the result of any single-digit multiplication. In my opinion this...

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