Working memory - what teachers need to know

Sometimes kids can come unstuck in subjects like Maths and English for reasons which have more to do with working memory than anything else. Let's take a quick look at working memory, and think about how it might affect young people and their learning. What is working memory?   Working memory has been described as being a bit like a little note pad where important information is placed and referred back to during a task. Information is taken in from the environment, processed and stored in the