Five signs your child has a maths gap, not a maths problem

Children rarely 'just aren't maths people'. Usually one specific idea went past them, and everything built on it has been shaky since.

Children rarely just 'aren't maths people'. Far more often one specific idea went past them, and everything built on top of it has been shaky ever since. Here is what that looks like from the outside.

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A gap is one specific idea a student never fully took on — say, that a fraction counts equal slices. It is not a gap in ability. It is a gap in the sequence, and sequences can be repaired.


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