{"id":37,"date":"2014-01-24T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingmaths.com\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2016-01-08T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T12:12:35","slug":"loving-maths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.livingmaths.com\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"Loving Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LovingAfter running the Living Maths program for 12 years, the Living Maths Mathletics Olympiad was not only a set of Maths papers for students from Grade 4-7, it was also including papers for grades 1-3.\u00a0 The next step was grade R (Kindergarten).\u00a0 After offering the Olympiad at this level, there were requests for running classes for the Foundation phase (R-3) at some of our schools.\u00a0 We began with grade 3 and then each year after that we introduced the classes to grades 2 and 1 and subsequently we offer the classes to grade R as well.\u00a0 At some of our schools we are also offering the classes to pre grade R.<\/p>\n

The programme for the foundation phase was named Loving Maths as the emphasis is on falling in love with the idea that maths is fun!\u00a0\u00a0The classes are 30 minutes long and they are based on a story that continues on a weekly basis.\u00a0 The story always ends with a cliff-hanger and the students are required to help the facilitator solve some problems during the lesson.\u00a0 If time is permitting, we squeeze a fun activity into a lesson as well.\u00a0 The number of Loving Maths classes is growing at a rapid rate as the students are \u201dloving\u201d every second of it.\"1836955_636798603023990_1418107411_o\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The classes allow us to introduce the idea that problems need to be solved and the students have several tools at their disposal.\u00a0 Using basic addition and subtraction, learning new ways to understanding some of the essential operations is key.\u00a0 Children also learn how to articulate their solutions and different methods to solve one problem.\u00a0 It is not for marks and they can work together to solve the problems \u2013 this essentially means that there is no pressure and it is loads of fun.\u00a0 From the wacky stories to the nail-biting endings each week, the Loving Maths program will soon be offered at a school near you!<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in having Loving Maths presented at your school, contact us<\/a> and we’ll do our best to organise it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After running the Living Maths program for 12 years, the Living Maths Mathletics Olympiad was not only a set of Maths papers for students from Grade 4-7, it was also including papers for grades 1-3.\u00a0 The next step was grade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmaths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmaths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmaths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmaths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmaths.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmaths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmaths.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}