My child is 4 years old and I would like to give her worksheets which follow repetitive learning to help with both maths and English. I have heard that Kumon worksheets do this type of repetitive learning but instead of visiting a Kumon centre I just wondered if there was a website where you could pay and download similar worksheets. Ideally I would like to register with a website which has thousands of worksheets covering ages 4 to 18 year olds and covers the school curriculum in the UK. I could just simply buy books but I prefer to have printable worksheets which are repetitive like Kumon.
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Get a ruler in your hands. Measure things until you start to understand how a ruler works. Measure some stuff and figure out where the center is. Say you measure a book and it's 7/8" thick. You look at your ruler and see that every eighth is divided into two sixteenths, so obviously half of 7/8" is going to be 7/16". If you write that out you have 1/2 x 7/8 = 7/16. And you notice that 1/2 is divided into 2/4 and then into 4/8 and so on, so you can convert anything to anything by multiplying all the numbers on top and then all the numbers on bottom.
Other rulers are divided into 10 and 100 parts. But an inch is still an inch, so anything on one ruler can be translated to the other ruler. A half inch on one ruler is 5/10 or 50/100 on the other. An eighth inch is just 12.5 marks when you have 100 marks per inch. A metric ruler divides an inch into 25.4 parts, so a half inch would be 12.7 of those parts. Pretty simple, isn't it? Practice this a bit and people will think you went to wizard school.
At age 4 she can build a box using a hand saw and miter: www.micromark.com/saws-and-miter-boxes.html and basswood: www.micromark.com/wood.html (Not any of the hard materials like plywood.) Look up a book on orthographic drawing and show her how to design the box on paper before she tries to make it out of wood.
If she seems ok with that, then about age 5 you can introduce her to paper models, like geodesic domes: www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=dome+models Domes can be made with plastic straws and pipe cleaners, so they are cheap and imagination is unlimited. popupcity.net/free-classic-domebook-2-by-lloyd-kahn/
Yes, there is a website that pays for recurring math and English assignments for kids ages 4-18. Visit wunderkiddy.com for a range of educational resources and materials to help your child learn. They offer worksheets, assignments and exercises in a variety of subjects and age ranges.