How can I monitor my child’s academic progress?

By monitoring your child’s academic progress, it will allow you to easily identify areas they may need to improve on.

Many parents worry about their children staying on the right track when it comes to their school work. Many children want to excel but there is a huge number that are failing or that are barely getting by. This is mainly due to a lack of motivation and perhaps not completing all of their school work. Too often though, parents are clueless until report cards come out. One way to change that though is to monitor your child’s academic progress online.

As a parent, your involvement plays a critical role in preparing your child to succeed in school and in life. Key Stage Two.com inspires you to support your children by providing them with a safe, nurturing home environment; building strong, positive relationships with school staff members; and staying engaged in their learning and development. From preschool through high school, your child depends on you to be an involved, strong, and constant advocate. You play a key role at every stage of your child’s development by:

-       Sharing information with your child’s teacher about your child’s strengths, interests, and goals.

-       Monitoring the development of your child’s learning.

-       Identifying resources to help your child develop mathematic competencies to take advantage of rigorous academic courses in middle and high school.

-       Staying involved and engaged both at home and at school to make sure your child attends school and en-rolls in the necessary classes to meet their postsecondary goals.

Membership of Key Stage Two.com has been developed for children aged 7-11, and has been designed in such a way that successfully manages to combine fun games with education.  Your child can log-on from the comfort of their own home, in a safe environment and complete fun missions while completing homework and educational tasks.  The tasks include thousands of questions compiled by teachers that are built into games. Key Stage Two.com is National Curriculum approved thus ensuring your child is learning within the guidelines as nationally stipulated.  Your child’s results are easy to understand, and quickly identify their academic strengths and weaknesses.

If ideas such as improving your child’s I.T skills, developing their academic strengths, encouraging better test results and improving their confidence in class interests you, then get onto Key Stage Two.com!

Key Stage Two.com is a virtual learning environment that concentrates on the subjects your child is learning in school to help boost their grades in a fun and engaging way, it is National Curriculum compliant and is used in schools and homes throughout Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales.  Now taking sign-ups for October 2011 at http://www.keystagetwo.com or try the Demo at http://www.keystagetwo.com/demo

Bite Size KS2 – Division by Key Stage Two.com

 This information, brought to you by Key Stage Two.com takes a quick look at some division examples to help you in divide in Maths.  It is in bite size modules to try and help you understand better.

THE CONCEPT OF DIVISION

There are three basic types of situations to which we apply the concept of division, these are dividing between, dividing for size, and dividing to compare.

‘Dividing between’ means to divide some quantity equally between a specified number of parts.

‘Dividing for size’ means to divide some quantity to obtain parts of a specified size.

‘Dividing to compare’ means to divide quantities of the same type in order to obtain a ratio.

 Divide your dividends!

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Let’s take the sum 425 ÷ 25.

Firstly we will try and divide 4 by 25, it does not go.

Then we will try to divide 42 by 25, and yes it works!

25 goes into 42 once, but with a ‘remainder’ so that is the first part of our sum = 1 (R 17)

So we will now try and divide 175 by 25, and yes it goes = 7 times with no remainder.

We have no more digits left so the sum is answered. 425 ÷ 25 = 17

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Let’s take the sum 568 ÷ 33.

Firstly we will try and divide 5 by 33, it does not go.

Then we will try and divide 56 by 33, and yes it works!

33 goes into 56 once, but with a ‘remainder’ so that is the first part of our sum = 1 (R23)

So we will now try and divide 238 by 33, and yes it goes = 7 times with a ‘remainder’ of 7.

We have no more digits left so the sum is answered. 568 ÷ 33 = 17 (R7)

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Let’s take the sum 749 ÷ 26.

Firstly we will try and divide 7 by 26, it does not go.

Then we will try and divide 74 by 26, and yes it works!

26 goes into 74, 2 times, but with a ‘remainder’ so that is the first part of our sum = 2 (R22)

So we will now try and divide 229 by 26, and yes it goes = 8 times with a ‘remainder’ of 21.

We have no more digits left so the sum is answered. 749 ÷ 26 = 28 (R21)

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Have you got a child undertaking Key Stage Two education, aged between 7 and 11? 

If so, why not join http://www.keystagetwo.com

It is a virtual learning environment that successfully manages to combine fun games with education, whilst concentrating on the subjects your child is learning in school to help boost their grades in a fun and engaging way. 

KeyStageTwo.com is National Curriculum compliant and is now being used in schools and homes throughout Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales.  Now taking sign-ups for September 2011 at http://www.keystagetwo.com or try the Demo at http://www.keystagetwo.com/demo