Tomorrow is Halloween and in our village we have quite a few children and they all like to follow the tradition of knocking at the door and asking for a trick or treat. I am always tempted to say “Trick” and ask them to do their 9 times tables! Of course the boss of the

We have not long returned from our trip to Germany where we attended the Essenspiel2011 Exhibition. This is an exhibition almost exclusively for board game players, where approximately 800 exhibitors from 32 nations and 154,000 visitors from all round the world attend. The main bulk of the games are called European or German games, tending

Numenko Board Game Education Most children today are great with technological games. That is, playing them! Suppose they decided that when they leave school they would actually like to have a job creating new games. Wouldn’t that be great if your child had an ambition they were able to fulfill! But, are they acquiring the

The United Kingdom has a problem, it seems, when it comes to maths education. Results from an international testing study last week triggered a fresh round of soul-searching after they revealed that the UK is falling down the global rankings for reading, science and particularly maths. And, today, new research revealed exclusively in Education Guardian

A Hockliffe inventor is going into schools to show youngsters the magic of numbers. Grandfather Tom Lennett is on a mission to show the nation’s schoolchildren that maths does not have to be the one subject they struggle with. With a mixture of number tricks, puzzles and jokes, Mr Lennett demonstrates that far from from