Today marks National Pi Day! To celebrate the event, we've listed some ways to remember some of the digits or this lengthy constant.

Doing calculations without carries and borrows is a more advanced calculation skill and by working in this way a child expands their mental capacity and develops greater mental agility as compared to the child who needs to write down carries and borrows.

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, marks the beginning of a new Lunar New Year and the end of the coldest season in China. This year, the Spring Festival starts on 25 January (New Year’s Eve) and ends on the 11 February 2021.

To mark the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe’s, Robinson Crusoethe, the BBC have listed 100 ‘novels that have shaped our world’ ahead of a forthcoming BBC Two show of the same name.

For those still enjoying their summer holidays, going back to school can make some of us nervous. But at Kumon we encourage our students to be confident and independent individuals that take responsibility for their own learning, and that includes their schoolwork.