Anyone got a child in revision mode at the moment?
Oli, my eldest, has his Year 6 SATs coming up and we’re working through his workbooks each evening.
He finds Maths harder than the other subjects.
Usually once he ‘gets’ the question, he’s fine with the actual maths behind it.
But sometimes struggles to understand what’s been asked.
Or he’ll get the wrong end of the stick and answer the wrong question.
I’m encouraging him to show his workings.
To help him work through what’s happening step by step so he can understand what’s been asked and is less likely to make a mistake.
If he just has the ‘wrong answer’ there’s not much I can do to help.
Now, of course, you don’t always needs to show your workings.
And if you’re consistently getting the right answer, that’s cool.
Like you don’t need to track your food for a few days.
If you’re consistently getting the ‘right answer’.
If you’ve reached a weight you’re happy with and are maintaining it, there’s minimal benefit to tracking.
If you’re, on average, getting the ‘wrong answer’ though………
If you’re gaining weight or struggling to lose it………
If you’re not 100% sure where the ‘errors’ are………
Then it’s probably worth ‘showing your working’ from time to time.
We get that it’s a bit of a pain.
But less than you’re probably thinking.
And within those ‘workings’ lie your answer.
When people ask me why they’re not losing weight and they only have a very vague description of how they eat…………
That’s the equivalent of going to the teacher with just the wrong answer.
So, track for a handful of days.
MyFitnessPal is great for it.
If the ‘mistakes’ don’t jump out at you, show us those workings (make your diary view-able and ask me to have a look at it).
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Much love,
Jon ‘SAS’ Hall and Matt ‘STOODS’ Nicholson
