Sidegate Primary School
Seize Opportunity, Create Success
Maths Through Stories
Why?
- Stories encourage problem-solving skills.
- Stories help children to form mental images and use visualization skills more, which in turn help them to explore solutions to the problem.
- Communication between teacher and the students increases.
- Stories help in the removal of the fixation of methods.
- The books allow a flexible approach to maths so children feel free to express alternative ideas and methods.
- Participation of students increases.
- Vocabulary and oracy.
