Number Sense At Home
Your child knows the steps and can’t feel the amounts. This course teaches you to see the layer under your child’s math — and to build it in the five-minute moments you already have.
Part of All Access. Eight short videos for you; your child never watches a screen. For children about 4 to 12.
More practice didn’t fix it. That isn’t your fault.
You’ve sat at the table. You’ve done the extra worksheets and the flashcards. The effort wasn’t wasted — it was aimed at the procedure, and the procedure was mostly fine.
What’s missing is the feel for the amounts underneath. A child who has it looks at 27 + 38 and knows the answer is about sixty-five before working it. A child who doesn’t writes 615 and hands it in, because nothing inside said that’s far too big.
“Gets the steps wrong” is usually “can’t tell when an answer is wrong.” That’s the layer this course builds.
What number sense looks like at your table
School builds symbols on top of this layer and assumes it’s there. For a lot of children the symbols went up first. The layer was skipped, not lost.
Where thirty-seven lives
Between zero and a hundred, a little before the middle. Numbers as places on a line, not only a list to recite.
Eight is five and three
And ten take two. Numbers that come apart and go back together, so eight and five becomes eight, two and three — no counting needed.
“About sixty-five”
A sense of the size of the answer before working it — the thing that catches a mistake before it goes on the page.
Five minutes at a time, with what’s already in the house
The table, the car, the store, a deck of cards. You already have the moments. What this course gives you is the eye for which moment is a number-sense moment — and the three-word question to ask in it.
Every module ends with one thing to do tonight in under five minutes, and one sign to watch for. A behaviour, never a date. If it starts to look like homework, we’ve done it wrong.
Eight short videos and a check-in
Narrated by Laura Lurns, at her kitchen table, doing the activities alongside you — and sometimes getting them wrong.
- 0The Missing LayerWhy more practice didn’t work, and what to build instead
- 1Where Numbers Live“Where does thirty-seven go?”
- 2Five and Ten Are Home“How far from ten?” — and school’s methods, decoded
- 3Breaking Numbers Apart“What’s an easier way to see that?”
- ½Halfway: a check-in from LauraTwo minutes and two questions
- 4Does That Make Sense?“What’s your guess before you work it?”
- 5Math Talk“How do you know?” — and the five seconds after it
- 6The Stance, with NumbersYour own state at the table, with a number in the room
- 7Keeping It GoingWhat stands on the layer, and how to tell it’s working
Printable, plain on purpose, and two versions of each
Every sheet comes as a younger version and an older version, so nothing feels babyish to a ten-year-old.
The Kitchen-Table Look
Five minutes, played as a game, at the start and again at the end. You watch how your child answers, not whether.
Thirty-four Moment Cards
Three-minute prompts for dinner, the car, the store and bedtime, each with an older version on the back.
Where Does It Go?
A number line on your phone. Your child taps; the screen shows where the number lives. No score.
The exercise pack
Paths and blank lines, ten-frames, bundles, card games, cube builds, fold-the-line and story shapes.
The Log
One line a night, so the win registers when it happens. Skip nights freely. It isn’t a chart.
The parent guide
The tool map, the signs and “which card tonight” on three pages to keep with the deck.
What has been tested, and what hasn’t
The pieces of this course are well established. The activities are adapted from what has worked in classrooms, with tutors and in software. Whether a parent at a kitchen table gets the same result has not been studied for children older than about seven.
So we say so — and we measure. The Look you do on the first night and again at the end is the study nobody has run. You keep both sheets. They’re yours.
You’ll know it’s working when your child starts checking whether an answer makes sense — on their own.
That’s an aim, not a finding, and there’s no timeline attached to it.
Who it’s for
Parents of a child about 4 to 12 who finds math hard — and especially 7 to 12, where the counting has gone on longest. Parent-only: your child never watches a video.
Where it fits
Inside All Access, after Foundations, the course on how you show up at the table. Your Learning Roadmap puts the two in order for you.
Number Sense At Home
Build the layer under your child’s math
Included in All Access, with every other course and program in it.
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