Full Description
Great math skills are a head start to lasting success Teach Your Children Tables is the ultimate guide to improving your child's mathematical abilities. Written by a renowned education expert, this book provides a proven approach to teaching that will help you enable your child to master multiplication tables in less than half an hour, and solve problems like 96 x 97 faster than they could tap it into a calculator! This updated third edition includes new chapters on factors and playing with square numbers, plus tips for learning tables up to fifteen and beyond.
Children will learn that numbers can be fun while they improve their thinking skills, boost their confidence and self-esteem, learn problem-solving strategies, and set themselves up for lasting educational success.
People who excel at maths are not necessarily more intelligent; they just use better strategies than the rest of us. This book gives you the perspective and the strategies you need to improve your child's understanding of maths, and introduce them to techniques that will help them achieve better test results, whether it's the weekly quiz, NAPLAN, or scholarship or entrance exams.
Imagine helping your child:
Perform lightning-quick calculations
Discover easy methods of multiplication
Learn the basic principles of mathematics
Have fun playing with numbers
Excellent maths skills present a serious advantage, throughout school and beyond. Children who are good at maths get better grades, higher test scores, and are accepted into better schools. Maths-minded adults are more in demand professionally, in fields that pay better and provide more room for upward mobility. If you could give your child this kind of gift, why wouldn't you? Now you can—Teach Your Children Tables shows you how, and makes it feel like fun.
Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
Part I: Learning the method 1
1 Teach your child tables 3
2 Multiplication — getting started 9
3 Using a reference number 17
4 Multiplying numbers above and below the reference number 27
5 Checking your answers 35
6 Multiplication — more about the methods 45
7 A fun mathematical short cut — multiplying by 11 65
8 Factors 75
9 Multiplying using two reference numbers 81
10 Using two reference numbers with factors 97
11 Learning beyond the tables 105
12 Playing with squares 115
13 Direct multiplication 131
Part II: Having fun with numbers 143
14 Solving problems and puzzles 145
15 Alphametics — fun with numbers 161
16 Encyclopaedia salesman puzzle 169
Part III: Solutions and practice sheets 173
Appendix A: Solutions to puzzles in chapter 14 175
Appendix B: Solutions to alphametic problems in chapter 15 187
Appendix C: Solution to encyclopaedia salesman puzzle 201
Appendix D: Practice sheets 205
Appendix E: Why the method works 213
Conclusion 215
