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Word problems are a great way to solidify learning! Whether you’re a parent wanting to help your child practice their division at home, or you’re a teacher looking for an extra challenge in the classroom, word problems are fantastic for helping math skills sink in!

One of the reasons word problems are so effective is that they have a story that a child can imagine. This makes learning more engaging and more meaningful.

We’ve curated a list of 10 awesome word problems for division! They are ordered from easiest to hardest.

You can give them to your children as a one-off challenge, or use them as inspiration to make your own.

When making your own word problems, remember:

- Relate them to your kid’s interests (e.g. sport, baking, a future career)
- Make the questions relevant to topics they already know or are studying
- Include their names or the names of their friends!
- Don’t make them too tricky to read - the reading difficulty needs to match the maths difficulty
- Don’t focus on too many of the same thing (e.g. don’t just ask problems about buying things or food)

The most important thing about mathematics is making it fun! Here are our top 10 division word problems. All the answers and explanations can be found at the bottom of the page.

Before we get into the 10 awesome word problems, another great way to solidify your child’s division ability is through low-pressure practice! [Try Polymath today](/parents) to help build the foundations of your child’s math learning.

## 10 division word problems

1. You’ve been asked to go to the supermarket to buy as much bread as you can. You’ve been given $10. Each loaf of bread costs $2. How much bread can you buy?
2. An artist needs to put 48 brushes away in their studio. They put the brushes away in pots, each pot has 6 brushes. How many pots do they need?
3. In the forest there are 9 magical cats. One third of the cats are brown, one third of the cats are yellow, and one third of the cats are blue. How many cats are blue?
4. You’re organising a party for 16 people (including you!). You are ordering 4 pizzas. Each pizza has 8 slices. How many slices of pizza does each person get?
5. You need to set up tables and chairs for 64 people. Each table has 8 seats and there should be no incomplete tables. How many tables do you set up?
6. An architect is planning a building for 1,000 people. She worked out she can put 100 people on each floor. How many floors does she need to make?
7. A new car park is going to need 39 parking spaces. Each row can have 4 parking spaces, how many rows will the car park need?
8. A marine biologist has 82 samples of sea water from different locations! Their sample case holds 26 samples in each tray. How many trays will they need?
9. An athlete has to run 4000 metres but their track is only 500 metres long. How many times do they have to run the track to finish 4000 metres?
10. An astronaut is building a rocket to go and live on the moon. The moon is 400,000km away. One litre of rocket fuel can send them 200km. How many litres of rocket fuel do they need?

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<small><a href="https://storyset.com/rocket">Rocket illustrations by Storyset</a></small>

## Answers

1. **5 loaves of bread.** Divide $10 by $2 per loaf. 10 ÷ 2 = 5.
2. **8 brush pots.** Divide 48 brushes by 6 brushes per pot. 48 ÷ 6 = 8.
3. **3 cats are blue.** This question adds a little more information than is necessary, which your child needs to work out first. Find one third of 9, i.e. divide 9 by 3. 9 ÷ 3 = 3.
4. **2 slices of pizza.** This requires a multiplication first to find out how many slices there are altogether - 4 pizzas by 8 slices. 4 × 8 = 32. Then divide 32 slices by 16 people. 32 ÷ 16 = 2.
5. **8 tables.** Divide 64 tables by 8 chairs per table. 64 ÷ 8 = 8. (64 is the square of 8!)
6. **10 floors**. Divide 1,000 people by 100 people per floor. These are bigger numbers, but to divide by 10 or 100, we can “keep knocking the zeroes off”. So we start with 1,000 ÷ 100. Then we take one zero of each number: 100 ÷ 10. Then we take another zero off: 10 ÷ 1 = 10.
7. **10 rows.** Divide 39 spaces by 4 spaces per row and round up. This is tricky because 4 doesn’t go evenly into 39, so there is going to be a remainder. 39 ÷ 4 = 9 remainder 3. Round up to 10.
8. **4 trays**. Divide 82 samples by 25 and round up. This is tricky because there is a remainder _and_ dividing by 25 is hard! The easiest way to do this is to successively add 25 until we get a number bigger than 25. 1 tray: 25, 2 trays: 50, 3 trays: 75, 4 trays: 100. 3 trays (75) is not enough, but 4 trays (100) is.
9. **8 runs around the track**. Understanding the question in the first place might be difficult here. Your child needs to get that the athlete can keep running around the same track to run further and further in total. We could divide 4,000 by 500, or we could successively add 500 until we get to 4,000. 4,000 ÷ 500 is the same as 40 ÷ 5 = 8.
10. **2,000 litres of rocket fuel.** These are some big numbers! If your child is having trouble, make sure they can read the numbers (400,000km is four hundred thousand kilometres). Then divide 400,000km by 200km per litre. 400,000 ÷ 200 is the same as 4,000 ÷ 2 = 2,000.


Why is a love of learning important for young children?


1. “Forty” is the only number that is spelt with letters arranged in alphabetical order.
2. There used to be two kinds of “hundred”. A short hundred which means 100, and a long hundred which means 120. [Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hundred)
3. From 0 to 1000, the only number that has the letter “a” in it is “one thousand”.
4. The symbol for division (i.e. ÷) is called an obelus. [Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelus)
5. It only takes 23 people to enter a room to give you an evens chance that two of them have the same birthday. With 60 people in the room the chances rise to 99 per cent! [Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem)
6. The numbers on opposite sides of a dice always add up to seven.
7. A year isn’t exactly 365 days — it’s about 365.242 days! That’s why we have a leap year every four years. [Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year)
8. The average person has 100,000 hairs on their head! [Source.](https://www.healthline.com/health/how-many-hairs-on-a-human-head#averages)
9. The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.  This was recorded in 1996 during a tropical cyclone in Australia. [Source.](https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/new-world-record-wind-gust)
10. The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long and it’s in New Zealand! Taumatawhakatangihanga-koauauotamateaturipukakapikimaung-ahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. [Source.](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/longest-place-name)

### Bonus fact!

1. The deepest place on Earth is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. It’s 36,201 feet (11,034m) deep. That’s almost seven miles! [Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench)

10 fun math facts to use in the classroom or at home


Practicing math should be a part of your child’s daily routine just like reading a book, but it should also be quick and painless. Here are 8 easy and speedy daily habits to try to include in your day-to-day life with your child. These will help boost their math skill and make math easier and more fun for them now and in the future! Don’t stress about hitting all of them every day, even just one a day is great!

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## 1. Counting! Letterbox numbers, trees, cars, dogs...

Counting is a really great way to use math on the go. As you’re walking or driving to school, try collectively count things you observe around your neighbourhood.

## 2. Comparing questions

Comparison questions are great for all ages because you can tailor the difficulty!

- Which is bigger, the elephant or the donkey?
- Don has 3/4 of a pizza left but Jess has 4/6 of a pizza left, who has more pizza?

## 3. Shape finding

Geometry is everywhere. Architecture and nature. One fun game you can play with kids is to get them to find all the circles or squares in the house. You can even let them take photos of them all to collect them together. With older kids, you can ask them to find more complex shapes like parallelograms or octagons.

## 4. Time questions

What is the time? What will the time be in 5 minutes? What will the time be in 2 hours and 24 minutes? There are endless ways of incorporating time questions into your day! This is really helpful in building up your child’s concept of time but also basic addition and subtraction within a bit of a tricky context (sixty minutes to an hour can be hard for kids to learn).

## 5. Sharing (division) questions

Sharing is an important part of children’s lives and making sure sharing is fair is even more important! Ask kids to split food or toys into groups, or between siblings. Getting them to go through the process of dividing sets themselves is the first step towards division!

With older kids, you can make it more complicated by dividing up wholes into fractions or using hypothetical scenarios.

## 6. Find something to measure

Getting a household thermometer is a great way to practice measurement as it’s something that changes every day. There are lots of other things you can measure around the house too, the weight of 1 cup of flour vs 1 cup of rice vs 1 cup of stones! You can measure the widths and heights of various objects. You can even challenge your kids to each find the closest object to a certain length!

## 7. Probability

Look out the window at a grey and rainy day. Is it more likely that it’s going to rain this afternoon or be sunny?

You can also practice probability with dice. [We have a whole blog post on the most likely dice role combinations and why](/blog/2022-02-rolling-two-dice)!

## 8. Pattern finding

Pattern finding is often quite natural for kids. They start to notice odds and evens, things organised in certain ways, etc. Pattern finding can be practiced with numbers: write out a set of numbers in a pattern (e.g. 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 ) and ask your child to tell you what the next number will be. You can also do this with shapes or even emojis! 🚙 🏠 🌳🏠 🌳 🚙 🏠 🌳🏠 🌳 🚙 🏠 🌳

All of these are great ways to increase the amount of maths that your child engages with and is exposed to on a daily basis. This will serve as an amazing foundation for them as they progress with learning more about the world and how it works!


8 easy and quick daily habits to help boost your kid's math skills


It might feel like mathematics isn’t very relevant to young kids. They don’t need to pay bills or calculate taxes. They don’t _really_ do any baking or cooking, at least not the bits that involve math. They don’t have to plan out their day, they definitely don’t need algebra, calculus, trigonometry, statistics...

Language on the other hand, feels more relevant as children are learning to communicate with others, but this idea that math isn’t used by young children is troublesome. There are so many ways in which math underpins the way that children function every day, showing how useful and important math is to young children.

Let’s talk about a couple of them...

## Sharing

Children seem to have an intrinsic drive to establish fairness. Fairness between friends, definitely between siblings. If one child is having 2 pieces of chocolate, of course the other must have the same! But how do children know what’s fair? From a very young age, children use visuals judge whether sharing is fair or not - do the two portions look the same size?

That’s math! Comparison of size is the foundation of math, but we can use numbers with kids to help them understand exactly what’s fair, because sometimes, two portions might not look the same but may be equal. For example, three large Lego pieces would easily be bigger than 20 smaller pieces, but there’s far more you can do with 20 smaller pieces of Lego.

An understanding of basic counting and numbers is fundamental to children being able to share with friends and family.

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## Making plans and understanding time

“We’ll see your friends next week!” doesn’t make a lot of sense to children until they understand what time means. They need to know how many days in a week when you tell them they’ll see their friend next week. They need to know how long 5 minutes is when you tell them they need to brush their teeth in 5 minutes!

Once they understand different periods of times, then it’s about planning the day and week.

## Lego, Duplo... how many blocks do I need to build this?

Most kids play with some kind of block or brick toy growing up and children definitely use math for this activity! Young children begin to make patterns and shapes with blocks and bricks, and this requires both arithmetic and geometry.

Children will start counting the number of bricks they need for each shape or colour. They will learn mental rotation as they begin to understand the dynamics of 3D shapes from different angles. Children’s ability to do this will strengthen the more they practice this skills, and conversely, a stronger grasp on these math skills will improve a child’s ability to be creative with these sorts of toys.

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## Sports and video games

Much like sharing, competition is important to children. To be able to keep count of how many points a team have scored in a sports game is a key arithmetic skill. When it comes to video games, creative games like Minecraft require children to know how many blocks fit in a stack, how many items they can carry, how many of a resource they need to build something, and so on. Math is incredibly relevant when it comes to all kinds of games that kids play.

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So, how is mathematics useful and important, or event relevant to a young child? These are just some of the ways, the list really does go on. Helping your child develop a strong foundation of mathematics through every day uses such as these, and letting them know that math is important and exciting is so useful to their day to day lives, both now and in the future.


How is mathematics useful to a young child?


Probability is one of our favourite mathematics concepts! Despite it being everywhere in the world around us, it can be hard to come up with interesting math problems.

Lessons around probability often start with dice rolling and coin flips. Dice rolling is great because it’s usually in a child’s life through board games. Lots of board games don’t have one dice, they have two!

This adds a little complexity to the problem. When we roll two dice and add the result, we can ask a bunch of questions, like:

- What are all the different numbers that can come up?
- What are the most common number(s)?
- What is the chance of the most common number(s) coming up?
- What are the least common number(s)?
- What is the chance of the least common number(s) coming up?

We’ve put together a printable worksheet that your child can work through on their own or with you. This post also has a detailed explanation on the problems in the worksheet. Click to download.

[![Worksheet](worksheet-preview.png)](DoubleDiceWorksheet.pdf)

## Problem 1: Performing an experiment

This is great for children who are just getting started with probability. It’s just about observation!

Break out a piece of paper and draw an x (horizontal) axis for a graph on it. On the axis write 1, 2, 3... all the way up to 12.

![An empty chart for showing the results of rolling 2 dice](graph.svg)

Then you and your child can roll two dice, add up the numbers, and record each sum. If you’re on paper with squares, you can colour in a square for each roll.

Do this for a while, it’ll take some time (around 50 rolls) before you see noticeable patterns. You could even do it over multiple days for 5 minutes a day.

After this is done, you may have something that looks like this:

![A chart of the experimental results of rolling 2 dice](experimentaldice.svg)

We can’t make any guarantees as we’re dealing with randomness—that’s the whole point of probability and statistics. However, the trend _should_ emerge that there are fewer rolls on the lowest and higher numbers, with a bump in the middle (around 6-8).

Here’s the interesting result: not all numbers have the same probability! Unlike rolling a single die, where each number has the same chance of coming up, rolling two die makes the distribution of results uneven. If you’re trying to make up your own dice games, this becomes important to keep in mind.

## Problem 2. Working out the probabilities

In the experiment we determined that the numbers _around the middle_ are the most likely. For more advanced children who understand probability as numbers (e.g. a coin flip has a 1 in 2 chance of coming up tails), we can work this out more precisely. According to probability theory, which is the most common number? Is there more than one of them?

We can work this out by calculating every single outcome of rolling two die. There are only 36 of them. Using a chart like this, we can calculate all of them. Here they are

![A table of the theoretical results of rolling 2 dice](dicenumbers.svg)

Immediately we can see some patterns emerge. There are these diagonal strips of numbers going from the bottom left to the top right. I think you can see what the most common number is now. We can look at it a slightly different way, though, by putting it into the histogram from above.

![A chart of the theoretical results of rolling 2 dice](realdice.svg)

What do you observe here? Here are some things we see:

- The shape is much neater than the experiment from before. In fact, it’s a perfect triangle!
- 7 is the most common result. How do we work out the probability of getting a 7? Well, we divide the number of times it comes up (6 times) by all the possible outcomes(36). So it’s a 6 in 36 chance. Or a 1 in 6 chance.
- 2 and 12 are the least common results. They each have a 1 in 36 chance of appearing.
- 1 is impossible to come up

## That’s just the way the dice roll

This is a fun exercise in probability that’s a little more complex than the single dice roll. You can take it further, too. What do you think would happen with three dice? What happens when you multiply the numbers instead of adding them?

We’d love to hear about how you use this exercise, so let us know on [email](mailto:hello@polymath.how), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/polymath_app), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/polymathapp/) or [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/pol.polymath/).


What’s the most common result of rolling two dice? Printable worksheet included


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Let’s face it. Math is seen as really hard. It’s one of those things that is socially appropriate to say you’re bad at.

Unfortunately, we can’t get away without learning it. So understanding why learning it is so hard is important.

It’s a complex issue with several interconnecting causes. A lot of them boil down to things that make kids not like, or even fear, math, which make it much harder to learn. This is a researched phenomenon known as _[math anxiety](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_anxiety)._

Here are 6 reasons we see as contributing to the issue.

## 1. Right and wrong is scary - fear of failure stops children trying

Most of the time, in math there is an absolute right answer. There are often different ways of getting there, but 7 + 6 will always be 13 (unless you’re a pure mathematician which we won’t get into here).

So, when answering a question, children are either met with success or failure. Contrast this to other disciplines (like reading) where it’s much more common to get something “sort of right”. If children are exposed to too much or too little “failure” when learning math, it leads them to fear failure, and then stop trying altogether.

## 2. Negativity around math is easily passed down to kids from parents and teachers

It might sound supportive and reassuring to say, when a child is struggling with some math, “it’s okay, some people just don’t have a math brain”. It might feel like it takes the pressure off, but really, it’s just enforcing the idea that a child might be fundamentally bad at math, when there’s no such thing.

## 3. Historically, the way we’ve been taught math does it no justice - it’s boring! (rote learning primarily)

As math is a very black and white subject with logical and correct answers, historically, it has been taught in a very black and white way. Look at an equation, do the working, figure out the answer.

Adults today can reminisce over lines and lines of equations to answer in the name of practicing.

Rote learning was a very popular way of learning and practicing math, fundamentally it’s an effective way of learning. But it is really boring. If something is boring it’s generally much harder to learn!

## 4. Children learn at different rates and it’s hard to account for this in the classroom

Classrooms move at their own pace, which is either too fast (too hard) or too slow (too easy) for the majority of students. As a result, children get into a state where they don’t understand the content, or they become disengaged.

Not only this, but kids learn math in different ways. For example, multiplication is sometimes taught as repeated addition, or as grouping. One way to teach a concept may work for one child, but make no sense at all to another.

It’s so difficult to cater for all of these differences in a classroom. Teachers have an almost impossible job.

## 5. If you miss something, you’re left behind

Math is built on layers upon layers. Subtraction doesn’t make sense without addition. Decimals don’t make sense without fractions. Probability doesn’t make sense without fractions. Algebra doesn’t make sense unless arithmetic is natural.

If you’re a child and you miss one of these building blocks, every subsequent topic doesn’t really make sense. The concepts kind of sink in, so it tends not to get noticed, but reaching true mastery is impossible.

This just exacerbates learning rates, which makes point #4 even trickier.

## 6. It’s not part of kid’s everyday lives and so they don’t get used to it

Unlike reading and writing, math being used in every day life is much less common. This is surprising seeing as adults use math all the time. It’s just not as common to make it much of a priority in those early years and early education.

This often means when it comes to numbers, and it normally comes later, they are unfamiliar to children. Math is often talked about as another language, and becoming familiar with this language in a casual and easy way makes it less daunting later on.

## What do we do about all this?

These issues seem pretty scary. Fortunately, there are solutions to all of these problems. Those are the kinds of things we explore at Celadon. Check out our app and our blog for more ideas.


Why is it so hard to learn math as a kid? 6 reasons math is so hard


Check out these ideas to help learning at home. All of them are free so you can get started right away! Number 5 and 6 have some alternative ideas for video conferencing and note taking that you might not have heard of before.

## 1. Khan Academy

[Khan Academy](https://www.khanacademy.org) is a great free education resource to help your child learn all sorts of subjects, and it’s particularly good for math!

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They have courses, organised by subject and by age group, to help your child master any mathematics topic, whether that be place value or understanding how division works. Khan Academy includes quizzes to help solidify any learning. The way their videos explain mathematics concepts is very understandable, and the beauty of a video is you can pause at any time and repeat sections if you need!

## 2. Code.org

[Code.org](https://code.org) is an awesome way to get your child into coding or to exercise a budding passion! They cover a wide variety of age groups and include fun and relevant context like Minecraft to make learning more exciting.

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They have videos, guides, and full courses to help your child become more familiar with coding.

## 3. Duolingo

[Duolingo](https://www.duolingo.com) is a language learning app and website and is a fantastic way to learn a new language, for both children and adults! The way it teaches languages is based heavily on problem-solving and memory techniques, and that makes it especially good for practicing your language skills!

![](duolingo.png)

Duolingo splits up languages into small, bite-sized classes that you can follow step by step to slowly build up your new language skill.

## 4. IXL

![Untitled](ixl.png)

[IXL](https://ixl.com/) has some great free content for and organises its curriculum in a very easy-to-access manner. IXL is great for giving you inspiration and ideas for what to focus on with your child and is also very helpful for figuring out any gaps your child may have.

## 5. Zoom and alternatives!

It’s so important when online learning to make sure you have easy ways to contact your school, other families, relatives, or friends. There are a variety of different video calling services:

[Zoom](https://zoom.us) has become widely popular since 2020 and has quickly become the go-to for this service

[Meet](https://meet.google.com) is Google’s alternative and you can organise video calls straight from your Google Calendar!

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[Gather.town](https://gather.town) is a new favourite of ours as gives you an avatar which you can move around a virtual space and talk to different people. This would be fantastic for hosting a little classroom of your child’s friends as it allows great breakout spaces and is a very organic experience.

## 6. Notion, Evernote...

Note-taking is really important for learning. Allowing children to have a space where they can jot down their ideas and make note of what they’ve learned to return to later. This can be on pen and paper of course, but for those who struggle with handwriting, or who enjoy working on a computer, there are some great alternatives.

[Notion](https://notion.so) is a fantastic tool for note-taking. You can easily insert screenshots, links, drawings, and images. It’s really easy to use and great for organising different pages of notes. Notion also includes features like to-do lists and calendars.

![Untitled](notion.png)

[Evernote](https://evernote.com) is also fantastic for organising pages of notes and allows you to have folders. It also has a good mobile app.

Apple Notes! If you have an Apple device, you can set up a new folder for your child’s education and allow them to take notes there. It’s easy and accessible all the time!


6 free resources to help learning at home


When learning or studying, it can be tempting to cram as much content in as short a time as possible. To keep working on one lesson or homework task until you feel like you get it. Have you ever spent hours working on a specific topic, ending the study session feeling like you can recite the whole chapter of the textbook, only to come back to it another day and find it unfamiliar? Unfortunately, learning and memory takes time (time in the sense of weeks and months) and this approach of blocked, intense study sessions will not lead to true long-lasting memory, at least not easily or efficiently.

There are many ways to make learning and memory-efficient though, and the discipline of psychology is deep with evidence-based learning techniques. The one we will be discussing in this post is spaced repetition.

The story of spaced repetition is quite an interesting one. Around 1885, a German psychologist called Hermann Ebbinghaus observed his own loss of information learned over time. He noticed an exponential loss of information, the sharpest decline occurring in the first twenty minutes since learning, and continuing to be significant within the first hour - the forgetting appeared to slow down after one day. He ran multiple tests, trying to evaluate how his memory declined over time and his "research" provided a basis for further psychological study into how memory works.

![In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghous discovered the forgetting curve](Spaced_Repetition-02.png)

Now obviously, conducting experiments on one's own memory has major limitations but we now have decades of research to support Ebbinghaus's initial observations. Indeed, memory does decay at this exponential rate but what further, less dubious research has revealed is that perhaps, if we interrupt the decay with recall at the right moments, we can _slow_ the rate of forgetting.

![Spaced repetition means practicing at increasingly large intervals](Spaced_Repetition-03.png)

Spaced repetition is one of the most discussed techniques for improving memory retention in psychology, and it really is what it sounds like. Most of us, when we study, will go back to our learning sessions more than once - we repeat the practice. Spaced repetition is about optimising the amount we do that and the time left between practice sessions. We don't want to waste time returning to our study an unnecessary amount, but equally, if we leave it too long between sessions or don't do enough study sessions, it could all be worthless. Spaced repetition is the optimum way to space out practicing so we maximise the chances of remembering information in the long term, and it's based on Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve. Spaced repetition is backed by decades of research and essentially suggests spacing out practices in increasingly long intervals as to interrupt the rate of forgetting.

For example: if you've just gone over doubling and halving with your child, you can come back to it in 10 minutes, then an hour, then a day, then 2 days, then a week, then a month, then in 2 months. This method has a higher likelihood of your child remembering how to double, than spending a few hours working on it once.

![How to remember for a long time](Spaced_Repetition-01.png)

Education systems and classes are normally structured in a massed method, meaning that content is studied in-depth, tested and then moves on to the next topic. Research suggests that this isn't conducive to long-term memory at all, and it's very familiar to hear adults sharing how little they remember from high school English class or primary school Maths class.

So, why don't we use spaced repetition methods more in education? Well, as our example above shows, it's pretty difficult to remember and plan to come back to a topic at just the right time. Imagine if you had another 20 topics to return to, each needing its own spacing. Spaced repetition is also something not well taught to students or teachers. It's really only available to those who are looking for it or who study psychology at university. This isn't something we teach in primary school or high school, let alone to teachers. Beyond that, the way the curriculum and classroom functions doesn't really allow for spaced repetition. With so much content to cram in, it would be unrealistic to expect teachers to plan out a whole year's worth of learning into small chunks and then space them out over the perfect intervals for multiple classes!

But, as it is mostly a logistical issue, technology can lend a hand, and that's exactly what we're doing at Celadon. Celadon maps out learned content based on spaced repetition. Planning the perfect time for your child to revisit a topic again and making learning easier from the first use.


Spaced repetition, let's go over it one more time


Hello!

Welcome to Celadon, the new learning app that's trying to make learning times tables a little easier and a little more enjoyable.

Celadon uses machine learning to make a personalised learning experience for each individual user. As you learn, Celadon learns too. It learns what you know, what you don't know so well and what you've never seen before. It learns how quickly you pick things up and when you need to see a piece of information again. It uses all this information to create a personalised experience for each user.

Celadon also uses a bunch of psychological principles about how memory works to make learning more efficient. We'll be doing a post about some of these theories later on so keep an eye out for that!

At the moment, Celadon is really new. Our software engineer, Christian, is still only able to work on the product in the spare moments he gets outside of his main job, so development can be a little slow at times but we're really hoping this will all change soon! We have big dreams for the future and are really passionate about working with teachers and parents to make the best product for students. If you have any feedback or ideas please don't hesitate to get in touch at hello@celadon.ai

Speaking of Christian, we should probably quickly mention who we are! Celadon has two founders, husband and wife duo Christian and Sophie (hi, I'm the one writing this post). I look after the business side of things and all our social media. Christian looks after Celadon itself, he's the one who takes all our crazy ideas and makes them a reality!

For a little bit of background, Christian is a Kiwi and I'm British but we both grew up in New Zealand. We came to the UK to study in 2015 (Christian at Cambridge and me at UCL) and we currently live in a little top floor flat in an old townhouse in London. We have 7 nieces and nephews back in NZ who we miss a ridiculous amount and who inspire us everyday. And finally, Celadon is pretty much the perfect combination of our passions and skills and we are so beyond excited to make it everything young learners need and deserve!

Thanks for stopping by and reading.


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