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Practical notes on Maths practice, habits, and what works.
8 November 2026
A right answer with no account of how it was reached is half a job. Getting your child to talk you through their thinking is not a way of checking up on them, it is the part of the subject that transfers to everything else they will ever do.
Read more3 November 2026
Your child groaning at a worksheet is not evidence that it has stopped working. But there is a line between work that is usefully hard and work that is just misery, and it helps to know which side you are on.
Read more15 October 2026
Your child is drawing boxes to work out 23 x 4. Here is what those boxes are for, and why the algorithm you were taught still turns up at the end.
Read more21 September 2026
A Hungarian family set out to prove that excellence is built, not inherited. What their experiment means for your kid and Maths.
Read more14 September 2026
Three ideas from cognitive science, and what they mean for the way your kid studies Maths.
Read more7 September 2026
I built BrainBike to make it hard for a child to take shortcuts and easy for a parent to manage.
Read more24 July 2026
Why consistency beats willpower, and how to make daily Maths practice stick using ideas from Atomic Habits.
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