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Get a Grip!
One of the reasons that grammar is so important is that the way we speak is related to the way we think.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (13 October 2022)
Today is ‘National Train Your Brain Day’ in the United States. I thought it was a fun thing to celebrate. What do you like to do to stimulate your brain?
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The expansion of the viewpoint
Facts are important of course. But, in reality, the world is mostly not about facts but about our interpretation of the facts, and this interpretation evolves from our past experience, and our impressions of the world around us and how it affects us.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (29 September 2022)
Do we live up to our mission statement? Yesterday I was lucky enough to get out of the office to attend the Independent Publishers Guild’s Autumn Conference.
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We have a crisis
How can we help children to be able to distinguish factual information from fantasy?
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (22 September 2022)
We love this illustration by Gaynor Berry for the new edition of Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension, Year 2 (coming next year). We hope you do too!
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Resistance is dangerous
Multiplication tables linked to superheroes with whom the children can identify, taking them through step by step, with the superhero guiding the way.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
We were very saddened by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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The art of practice
Why does practising maths work – and what does it do to your brain? There is no doubt that practising anything can make one better at performing the task.
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This not that
Suppose your blank sheet of paper, rather than being white, was black, and the ink you were writing with was white. Would that change what you wrote?
