Home Education

Parents turn to home education / home schooling and teach their children at home for a variety of reasons. These range from religious beliefs, to problems with their child’s health or problems of bullying within the school, to a lack of confidence in the ability of the school system to teach effectively. Parents who teach their children at home cannot be expert in all the subjects that are covered by the curriculum. The internet provides a lifeline allowing them to access the information and teaching materials that they need. Puppet Maths is a resource that home education / home schooling parents can access to help them teach maths to their children. As a maths teacher of many years standing, I have learnt a lot about teaching maths on the job. Time and again I have revised my method in the light of experience. Pupils experience problems and misunderstandings that, until I witnessed them, I could not have guessed at. It has been my job to help them overcome these problems, and in my teaching, I try to address these problems in passing to ensure that my pupils do not develop a mental block regarding some subject or other. Home education / home schooling parents do not generally have this experience, and they don’t have the time to learn from their mistakes in finding the best ways of explaining a topic… they want their children to succeed academically. Puppet Maths brings them the benefit of my experience in teaching maths and in avoiding many of the mental blocks that can be introduced in a child’s mind when they don’t understand some aspect of mathematics.