Teaching Maths Through Music and Play
Welcome to our Musical Mathsters page!
This is a new and innovative course put together by all of us here at Tutorage. It is a series of training courses aimed at you (the parents!) which will provide you with games and techniques to teach your children maths through music and play. Our course will help to guide you through navigating the world of maths in a way that is fun and engaging!
Course Structure
Our Musical Mathsters course will consist of six hour long sessions over six weeks. Each session will focus on a different element of maths, with all of the resources and skills coming together at the end of the course to make teaching it a breeze!
Session One: Making Maths Cheap and Cheerful
In our introductory session, we will focus on putting together some fun games and activities that wont cost you an arm and a leg. These can be adapted depending on the age of your child, and will focus on ways to teach out of the home that are both fun and cheap!
Session Two: How to Teach Counting
Our second session will focus on the importance of counting and being able to teach it in a way that helps your child to understand and internalise it. It is very important to introduce the idea that counting isn’t just about repeating a list of numbers, but is instead a large part of mathematical understanding.
Session Three: Measuring and Direction
Our third session will focus on activities that will help your child to visualise and internalise what measuring and direction actually are. The games we will introduce will demonstrate concepts such as big and small, and backwards and forwards without making them too complicated!
Session Four: Adding and Subtracting
Our fourth session will focus on what it is we mean by adding and subtracting. This will follow on from session three by further focusing on the concepts of big and small in relation to demonstrating more and less. These are the foundational elements of learning how to add and subtract.
Session Five: Tackling Time
Our fifth session will help you and your child to get to grips with time in relation to mathematical learning. We will use storytelling to learn about time, again taking the concepts of big and small along with backwards, forwards and sideways to help your child to conceptualise what time is and how it moves.
Session Six: Divide, Multiply and Conquer
Our final session of the course will use the concept of fairness to introduce how we can group and split items up. This will demonstrate the core elements of division and multiplication and again help your child to internalise and understand them. Through this, we will also have a focus on halving and doubling and what this may mean when we look at it through the lens of multiplication and division.
Course Details
For the first course of sessions, details are as follows:
- 6 weekly hour long sessions
- Ages 3 – 6
- Course price of £67.50
- Free use of all resources provided
- Class size of roughly 10 family groups ( 1 adult and 1 child included in price, siblings are welcome and will be charged at half price to cover costs)
- Sessions will run on Thursdays. For the running times, please see the dates list below
Dates:
- Session 1: 11/04/24 (2:00-3:00)
- Session 2: 18/04/24 (11:30-12:30)
- Session 3: 25/04/24 (11:30-12:30)
- Session 4: 02/05/24 (2:00-3:00)
- Session 5: 09/05/24 (2:00-3:00)
- Session 6: 16/05/24 (11:30-12:30)
Location:
The Willow Room at Brampton Museum
Brampton Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Newcastle ST5 0QP
Booking a Place:
If you would like to confirm your place on the course, please click the button below to be taken to our Musical Mathsters Booking Form