A complete, graded home-study series, with a progress chart and reward stickers. From symmetry and negative numbers to multiplication and decimals, this workbook features exercises with notes.
The format of Mental Arithmetic differs from that of traditional mental arithmetic materials in that pupils read the questions themselves, use rough paper for workings out, and write down their answers. It provides intensive practice in all areas of the maths curriculum.
Level: KS2 Subject: English An engaging Grammar and Punctuation activity book to really help boost your child’s progress at every stage of their learning! Including helpful questions and answers, this English book provides reassurance whilst supporting your child’s learning at home.
Following the great success of the earlier books, this fourth book in the Mathematics Recovery series equips teachers with detailed pedagogical knowledge and resources for teaching number to 7 to 11-year olds. Drawing on extensive programs of research, curriculum development, and teacher development, the book offers a coherent, up-to-date approach emphasising computational fluency and the progressive development of students′ mathematical sophistication. The book is organized in key domains of number instruction, including structuring numbers 1 to 20, knowledge of number words and numerals, conceptual place value, mental computation, written computation methods, fractions, and early algebraic reasoning. Features include: fine-grained progressions of instruction within each domain; detailed descriptions of students′ strategies and difficulties; assessment tasks with notes on students′ responses; classroom-ready instructional activities; This book is designed for classroom and intervention teachers, special education teachers and classroom assistants. The book is an invaluable resource for mathematics advisors and coaches, learning support staff, numeracy consultants, curriculum developers, teacher educators and researchers.
Are you baffled by negative numbers? Need help rounding up or down? Or how to add fractions? Learn all this and more in How to be Good at Maths, the simplest-ever visual guide to maths. Find out how many million times we blink each year, calculate the mean average of your family and even use pizza to understand pesky fractions. Unlike other maths workbooks How to be Good at Maths introduces each topic with colourful pictures, real-life examples and fascinating facts, ideal for reluctant mathematicians or revising before a test making maths is fun and easy. The unique visual approach of How to be Good at Maths makes basic maths easier to understand than ever before with short, simple explanations that demystify even the most challenging topics. Each topic has a real-life example so you can see how fractions, decimals and more work in an everyday situation.
Engage in the world around you with this lively and enlightening introduction to science. From materials, light and space to humans, animals and plants, this book covers an impressive range of topics in a simple, accessible way. Friendly, bright illustrations by Stefano Tognetti. Full of fun experiments readers can try at home. With expert advice from Penny Coltman, Senior Lecturer in Primary Science Education at Cambridge University.
Providing plenty of practice questions for children to work through, this Maths skills book helps to build confidence and improve Maths skills at Key Stage 2. Children can use this book at home for SATS revision, and to build on topics covered in the classroom. Written by educational experts, this Maths skills book saves time with ready-to-practice questions that comprehensively cover the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division for KS2 Maths. Packed with engaging pictures and clear practice questions, this handy study guide gives a strong foundation in Maths for Key Stage 2. It builds on the Maths skills learnt in Book 1. Content includes: lots of practice in number and money (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), time (o'clock, 1/2 past, 1/4 past/to, minutes past and to, calendar), simple fractions (1/2, 1/4), simple graphs, length (cm and 1/2 cm) and mass (g and kg).