Adam buys 6 bags of white balloons. Chen buys 3 bags of red balloons. Adam says, ‘I have four times as many balloons as Chen.’ Explain why Adam is correct. How hard can it be? After all, this is a maths question for kids in year 6. It's question 12 in Mathematics paper 3: [...]

We all want our children to do their best in the SATs test - but it's also important to keep things in balance - as this article from 2016 explains... By Laura Nicholson, Edge Hill University Some parents are so angry with the testing regime facing their children that they have come together in an [...]