How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too

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 or multiplication? Maths can often leave children - and parents - perplexed.How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too works through maths topics with a simple step-by-step approach, explaining the new ways of teaching maths that confuse so many parents. This book will show you how to:- Master 'number bonds' and 'number lines'- Divide by 'chunking'- Multiply using 'the grid method'- Work with fractions, percentages and ratios- Understand number and place valueBridging the gap between primary and secondary school - when children often struggle - and packed full of simple, accessible examples, this essential guide will banish your maths phobia and take the pain out of homework time.

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 or multiplication? Maths can often leave children - and parents - perplexed.

How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too works through maths topics with a simple step-by-step approach, explaining the new ways of teaching maths that confuse so many parents. This book will show you how to:

• Master 'number bonds' and 'number lines'
• Divide by 'chunking'
• Multiply using 'the grid method'
• Work with fractions, percentages and ratios
• Understand number and place value

Bridging the gap between primary and secondary school - when children often struggle - and packed full of simple, accessible examples, this essential guide will banish your maths phobia and take the pain out of homework time.

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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

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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.

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Does the sight of your children's maths homework fill you with dread? Do you look for any excuse when they ask you to explain fractions or multiplication? Maths can often leave children - and parents - perplexed.

How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too explains maths topics with a simple step-by-step approach, enabling all parents - whatever their ability - to help their children with homework and general numeracy questions.

Maths teacher and parent Naomi Sani explains the new ways of teaching maths that confuse so many parents and will show you how to:

• Master 'number bonds' and 'number lines'
• Divide by 'chunking'
• Multiply using 'the grid method'
• Partition and Recombine
• Understand number and place value

Bridging the gap between primary and secondary school - when children often struggle - and packed full of simple,
accessible examples, this essential guide will banish your maths phobia and take the pain out of homework time.