mathematics

Parents often ask teachers for suggestions of holiday activities that will maintain learning before children return to school. While we neither expect nor want children to spend hours at a...

“I’ve got an interactive whiteboard in my room but I don’t know how to use it.” “What readilearn resources can I use with my kindergarten children?’ “Schools have said they...

How do you feel about worksheets? Love them? Hate them? Use them sparingly? I would say I’ve never been greatly in favour of worksheets. I’m not saying I never used...

The readilearn Bullfrog’s Billabong suite of cross-curricular resources can be used as the foundation for planning a week’s reading instruction including lessons with the whole class and small groups and...

If you are looking for activities to keep the children occupied during the holidays, check out the readilearn Christmas collection. Many are suitable for use at home as well as...

STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) subjects are being rejuvenated in schools. Many of us remember them as uninteresting, unfathomable and seemingly unrelated to anything we needed to know in the...

The importance of teaching children from a young age to think critically about material presented to them, rather than to be unquestioning consumers of information, seems to be increasing in...

Making space for STEM in early childhood classrooms is easy; or should be. Children are naturally curious about the world. They want to know: Why is it so? How does...

The importance of logical thinking and problem solving Logical thinking and problem solving are important skills for children of all ages to develop, including those in early childhood classrooms. We...

Many games involve children in practising maths skills, and playing games is a great way of incorporating fun into the maths program. With the additional benefit of supporting the development...

Shapes are all around. Everything we see has a shape. Some of those shapes are regular, some not so regular. In early childhood, children are introduced to the basic regular...

Mathematical thinking involves more than just being able to count and recite number facts. The ability to solve mathematical problems requires us to think flexibly and creatively with numbers. We...