Product Description
Aimed at seven-to-11-year-olds and designed for learning at home, the "Mad About Maths" series follows international curriculum guidelines emphasizing the importance of developing children's abilities through games and the use of visual and structural materials. The three books in the series are packed full of multicultural, imaginative theme-based activities, such as number games, quizzes and picture puzzles, motivating children and stimulating their own thinking and exploration of mathematical ideas. Each book also contains six tip-in leaves with press-out numbers, strips, boards and counters to use in the games and puzzles. Bright, eye-catching artwork makes the series visually stimulating as well as educational. Numbers are incredibly versatile and interesting. This title looks at the magic that you can conjure up with prime numbers, "think-of-a-number", Pascal's triangle and Egyptian fractions, to name but a few. The attention given to spotting numerical patterns and differences should also help to improve a child's eye for detail.
About the Author
Jenifer Pinel MA, an ex-deputy head teacher, is an independent educational consultant, currently lecturing in Primary Mathematics Education at University College Chichester. She has wide experience of the primary curriculum and is a member of an LEA mathematics advisory team. Adrian Pinel MA lectures on primary mathematics around the world, having taught across the full age range.