An  understanding of and an ability with mathematics is essential to survival in the real world and at school.

An  understanding of and an ability with mathematics is essential to survival in the real world and at school. This understanding and ability begins at the primary level with the “basics”. These are, quite simply, the four number operations: adding subtracting multiplying and dividing the whole numbers, or integers as well as the fractions both decimal and vulgar. From this follows knowledge of percentages and then the relationships between percentages, fractions and decimals and whole numbers. 

Then and only then are children equipped with the necessary skills to achieve in areas such as data, measurement, space and geometry, algebra and so on. 

Bill Spooner’s Basic Primary Maths Program delivers these necessary skills to both primary and junior secondary students.

What follows is dictated by the needs of the individual child.

Primary children will move to more advanced lessons that introduce and give practice across those above mentioned areas (data, measurement, space and geometry, algebra, etc).

Junior secondary students are often with us for help with the maths required by the schools. They want direct assistance and answers to “how” questions. 

Senior secondary students are either the high achievers who are chasing a top OP for tertiary entrance or those that are experiencing difficulty and need guidance. They are studying Maths A,B or C at school. Each child comes to us with individual needs.

Both junior and senior students receive direction, instruction, enlightenment, information; recommendations, suggestions, tips, hints, pointers and guidelines in the areas below  and others, according to their individual requirements.

  

Arithmetic	Algebra	Measurement
Directed numbers	Graphs and charts	Angles
Equations	Ratio	Perimeter, area and volume
Data, chance and statistics	Number plane	Indices and surds
Geometry	Money	Similar figures
Trigonometry	Function and logs	Problem solving

Children need to experience achievement and this is especially so in maths; the satisfaction of getting it “right”. Achievement builds confidence and confidence builds achievement. At Bill Spooner’s Coaching Academy we, quite simply, help children to get it “right”.