How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too: The Essential Guide for Parents – Covering KS1-3 Maths - Softcover

Sani, Naomi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091929385 ISBN 13: 9780091929381

Publisher: Vermilion, 2010

Synopsis

The essential maths guide for parents, designed to help you support your child with maths homework and everyday numeracy – whatever your own ability.

PERFECT FOR AGES 5-12, COVERING KEY STAGES 1, 2, AND 3.

Does the sight of your child's maths homework fill you with dread?
Do you look for any excuse when they ask you to explain equations, fractions, multiplication or percentages?

You're not alone.

In How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too, experienced maths teacher and parent Naomi Sani explains the methods used in today's classrooms with a clear, step-by-step approach. This practical guide helps parents understand the modern techniques that can often seem unfamiliar, making it easier to support children at home with confidence.

Inside you'll learn how to:

• Divide by 'chunking'
• Multiply using 'the grid method'
• Use fractions, percentages and ratios
• Understand number patterns and algebra
• Build confidence with number and place value

Packed with straightforward explanations and accessible worked examples, this practical maths handbook bridges the gap between primary and secondary school - when children often struggle - helping parents explain key maths concepts in a way children can understand.

Whether you're looking to improve your own confidence with maths or help your child’s homework, How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too will help take the stress out of homework time and replace maths anxiety with confidence.

About this title

About the Author

Naomi Sani has been a maths teacher for 18 years, serving as head of a secondary maths department and senior management team member. She has lectured to PGCE students at Exeter and Bath universities and has been a maths consultant for the Specialist Schools and Academies trust. She has provided special maths enhancement days to disaffected pupils and was a Regional Coordinator for the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics. Naomi lives in Bath with her husband and three children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vermilion
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091929385
• ISBN 13: 9780091929381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384