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How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too
  • Published: 15 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780091929381
  • Imprint: Vermilion
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $49.99

How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too

The essential parents' guide

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An essential resource that will enable all parents - whatever their ability - to help their child with homework and general numeracy questions

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.

  • Published: 15 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780091929381
  • Imprint: Vermilion
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $49.99
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About the author

Naomi Sani

Naomi Sani has been a maths teacher for 14 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 two children.
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Praise for How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too

This works through the maths topics of the national curriculum in simple steps and explains some of the new methods of teaching them - often the most confusing thing of all in my experience.

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