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Practical help for parents: how school teaches it, what each year covers, and what to try at home this week.

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  • A girl points at Thena's board on a laptop at the kitchen table while her mum watches

    Learning with AI

    Meet Thena, the teacher who draws as she explains

    Thena talks your child through a topic, draws each step as she explains it, and keeps going until it clicks. Here's what a lesson looks like, what you see as a parent, and what it costs.

  • A child doing column subtraction at the kitchen table, exchanging a ten with coins

    Maths at home

    How to help your child with column subtraction

    Column subtraction looks different from the way many parents learned it, and the words have changed too. Here is how schools teach it step by step, and how to help your child at the kitchen table without causing confusion.