Keeping Up With the Kids - Key Stage 2 Maths - Online Courses - Adult Learning

Online Courses, Nottingham

Date	12 January - 9 February 2026
Sessions	Mondays: 1pm - 3pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £40

About this course

This course has been designed to help you to understand how your child is learning Maths in the lower and upper KS2 classroom from children aged 7 - 11. As you become more confident with maths, you will be able to support your child with their homework and assignments.

This course focuses on those who lack confidence in their own maths skills and knowledge or need their maths skills updating. This course is designed to inform parents/carers about how their children are taught maths.  It will help parents/carers to support their children with their maths skills, develop their own maths skills and improve their confidence with maths. This course will build a strong foundation in core numeracy skills.

By the end of the course, you will:-

Be able to support your child perform operations with fractions, decimals, and percentages.
Understand and apply BODMAS rules in calculations.
Accurately measure and compare lengths, mass, and capacity.
Understand properties of shapes and coordinate positions.
Interpret and create charts, graphs, and pictograms.
Use number and place value skills up to 3 decimal places.
Solve problems involving sequences, simple formulae, and scaling.

Please bring to the course with you:-

A drink, notepad and pen

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014