Speed

[vasu]

I got my son a digital watch which has a timer and a stop watch. He himself times each time he does a paper. Timing is getting better with each paper. He has realised with maths the initial questions are easy, so finish it fast and then keep a minute plus for the hard ones. Knowing timetable/spellings by heart helps by far anything. As everyone above have said"Practice makes perfect....or something closer to it "

[Marylou]

The little robots also respond to bribery, when losing the will to live towards the end !!!

Another incentive that works is bribing the child to finish early in practice paper

Good heavens above - we'd never consider resorting to such measures...

[patricia]

I bribed my own children [many years ago]

They had to do a test every week without moaning and groaning. If they got 90% or over in time they were given £1 which was put in a jar and saved up until the real exams were over...

Patricia

[Colourful-Rainbow]

10] Teach multiplication and division the old fashioned way. Not chunking and grids. I tell my children they do it my way for the 11 plus, they do as their teacher says for school.

Patricia

What is the old fashioned away? Just the numbers above each other for multiplication and for division the 'bus - shelter' method?