The Education Shop

Robin Philbrick, the creator, and his team of qualified, experienced, innovative, PRACTICAL educators are PASSIONATE about helping today's students SUCCEED in Maths. No, not only SUCCEED, but develop truly POSITIVE attitudes towards this vital subject.

From his experience in the classroom for many years, his observations in the tuition centres he established over 20 years in suburban Melbourne, and his experience in publishing a number of totally practical Maths resources for primary teachers and students, has emerged the EdShop Maths Worded Problem Worksheets.

Primary teachers in particular need a resource that will give their lessons that EXTRA ingredient -- FUN!-- that will capture the interest of students, and teacher, alike.

They know from years of teaching experience that not every Maths lesson is interesting. Not every Maths lesson goes well.

These worded problem worksheets are the product of many years’experience teaching primary and secondary students maths.

These worksheets EMBRACE LIFE! They embrace currrent affairs and relate Maths problems to fascinating topics that have a natural interest to all.

They have as a specific goal the use of everyday situations in the news, on TV, on Facebook and Twitter, that are of natural interest to mid-primary, upper primary, and gifted and talented primary students everywhere.

Too often, maths books and maths resources are out-of-date, old-fashioned, irrelevant, or make no link whatsoever with the world of today.

Not so with these worksheets.

Ans as a maths and literacy expert, Robin has helped thousands of students maximise their academic potential, while encouraging and supporting them in a "whole-of-life" way.

And the content of each of these worded worksheets is completely consistent with the prevailing Australian maths curriculum guidelines and standards.

But how DO you teach a student to like maths?

Based on more than four decades of experience, the creator of these valuable resources - a qualified, experienced teacher - has developed WORDED maths problems that engage and excite youngsters: topics such as pop heroes or sporting stars, TV shows, recently-released movies, cool dudes in the news, etc.

He has now created a series of mathematical worded problem sheets that are forwarded weekly directly to the email in-box of subscribers. FRESH. RELEVANT. VALUABLE. TIMESAVERS FOR TEACHERS. They not offer not only worded problems appropriate to student ability levels, but also bring fun into the maths subject matter.