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Children at a County Durham primary school have discovered a new approach to the usually mundane chore of learning their times tables.
Victoria Richards, a Year Three teacher at Escomb Primary School near Bishop Auckland, let her class try the Maths Wrap – a simple device that makes learning times tables fun.
She says: “The important thing is that it is a flexible way to learn – that’s what we’re looking at as the curriculum changes in the next couple of years.”
The colourful device, invented by a maths teacher, appears to chime with latest government thinking. The new White Paper “Your child, your school, our future: building a 21st Century schools system” promises a “new, more flexible primary curriculum will be introduced in 2011”.
Maths Wrap has numbers notched down one side, and a cord attached. It comes with 12 cards to test different tables. |