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Help Your Child Love Maths! workshop

All schools are asked to deliver at least one ‘Help Your Child Love Maths!’ workshop to parents and carers.

This is a 1-hour attitudinal workshop to parents/carers looking at National Numeracy’s top tips for supporting children to feel positive about maths.

You can find all the materials you need to deliver the workshop here.

Presentation slides

Download the presentation to use in your school’s workshop. You will find videos and links embedded into the slides.

Please download the presentation for your cluster.

Presentation slides: East Midlands

Presentation slides: Greater Manchester

Presentation slides: London

Presentation slides: Mixed

Presentation slides: North West

Presentation cover image

Workshop plan

Download the workshop plan to guide you through the presentation slides. All links are embedded into the document.

Please open the workshop plan for your cluster.

Workshop plan: East Midlands

Workshop plan: Greater Manchester

Workshop plan: London

Workshop plan: Mixed

Workshop plan: North West

Tips for running workshops

National Numeracy's Iain Evans leading a workshop

Communications

We have written some template messages to help you promote the ‘Help Your Child Love Maths!’ workshop to parents and carers, including a letter home, poster, newsletter article and text alerts.

Download the templates and add in your workshop details.

Messaging templates

Parent with children

Top tips for parents and carers

Use this video and these information sheets to share National Numeracy’s top tips for supporting children to develop positive attitudes towards maths.

The subtitles in the video can also be viewed in Welsh, Urdu, Romanian, Punjabi, Polish and Arabic.

Point out maths in the real world

Talk positively about maths

Improve your own number confidence