WEEK 1 — Repairing Your Maths Foundations
Welcome to Week 1 of your eight-week maths catch-up plan. This week is all about strengthening the essential skills that make everything else in maths easier. Each day has a clear focus, a short explanation, and practice questions to help build confidence step by step. The video at the top of the page gives the full lesson. Below you’ll find the mind map , the daily breakdown , practice exercises, and a short quiz . Mind Map – Week 1 DAY 1 — Number Flexibility This day focuses on making numbers easier to work with. Number flexibility (or “number sense”) helps everything else feel less heavy. What to understand Numbers can be broken into friendlier parts This makes multiplication, division and mental maths easier Examples: 48 = 40 + 8 36 = 30 + 6 72 = 70 + 2 Practice Break each number into two different forms: 36 72 54 Mental multiplications: 6 × 7 8 × 9 12 × 8 DAY 2 — Fraction Basics Today focuses on the five key ...
