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  • Published: 18 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241185988
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $55.00

How to be Good at Maths

The Simplest-Ever Visual Guide



Become a maths whizz and master decimals, fractions, formulas and much more


Maths can be a mental minefield for many, but this essential visual guide ensures everything adds up.

This comprehensive maths book for primary school children and their parents keeps the subject simple from start to finish. Whether solving subtraction, mastering multiples, or deciphering division, How to be Good at Maths has got you covered.

Eyecatching graphics and step-by-step sequences work together to lay the foundations of numeracy. There is plenty of fun to be had with exciting examples to aid accessibility and understanding. You'll fly down a zipwire to get the gist of geometry, time a robot runner in the race to deduce decimals, and use space scales to weigh yourself on giant planet Jupiter.

With memorable facts and extra challenges to refresh your knowledge throughout, primary school maths can be practised again and again to ensure this tricky topic is easier than ever before.

  • Published: 18 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241185988
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $55.00

About the author

Carol Vorderman

Carol Vorderman is one of Britain's best known and loved TV personalities. She feels passionately about the value of education, and joined forces with Dorling Kindersley in 1999 to become DK's Education Champion, working with DK to produce this bestselling Made Easy series in Maths, English, and Science.

Carol has a Masters degree in Engineering from Cambridge University, and first became known for performing speedy calculations on television. She is committed to popularising and communicating about maths and science, and writes on these subjects for national newspapers. Carol appears regularly on maths and science television programmes on Channel 4, ITV, and the BBC. She is currently leading a Maths Task-Force for the Conservative Party, investigating how to improve maths teaching in British state schools.

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