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About This Book
UPDATED 2022 What if you could teach your kids simple maths strategies that can be applied to almost any calculation? What if you could show them that learning maths can be fun?
Popular Australian author and inspirational teacher Bill Handley's methods of teaching mathematics and learning strategies have achieved amazing results. In this bestselling book, he shows readers that kids who excel at maths are not necessarily more intelligent—they simply use better strategies!
Speed Maths for Kids makes the methods and principles for maths calculations clearer, encourages creative thought, and is just plain fun. Now fully revised with new chapters and strategies, the book also has notes throughout for parents and teachers to help their children engage and learn more easily.
Help your child:
- Learn to enjoy maths
- Tackle tests without the stress
- Achieve better results on quizzes, NAPLAN, and exams
By following Handley's innovative approach, you will have kids playing with numbers, performing lightning-quick calculations and, most of all, having fun! Give your child a boost in school—and make mathematics their favourite subject.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Multiplication: Getting started
- Chapter 2: Using a reference number
- Chapter 3: Numbers above the reference number
- Chapter 4: Multiplying above & below the reference number
- Chapter 5: Checking your answers
- Chapter 6: Multiplication using any reference number
- Chapter 7: Multiplying lower numbers
- Chapter 8: Multiplication by 11
- Chapter 9: Multiplying decimals
- Chapter 10: Multiplication using two reference numbers
- Chapter 11: Using factors with two reference numbers
- Chapter 12: Addition
- Chapter 13: Subtraction
- Chapter 14: Calculating left to right
- Chapter 15: Simple division
- Chapter 16: Long division by factors
- Chapter 17: Standard long division made easy
- Chapter 18: Direct long division
- Chapter 19: Long division by adding
- Chapter 20: Checking answers (division)
- Chapter 21: Fractions made easy
- Chapter 22: Direct multiplication
- Chapter 23: Putting it all into practice
- Appendix A: Using the methods in the classroom
- Appendix B: Working through a problem
- Appendix C: Learn the 13, 14 and 15 times tables
- Appendix D: Tests for divisibility
- Appendix E: Keeping count
- Appendix F: Plus and minus numbers
- Appendix G: Percentages
- Appendix H: Hints for learning
- Appendix I: Estimating
- Appendix J: Squaring numbers ending in 5
- Appendix K: Mathematical terms (glossary)
- Appendix L: Practice sheets
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- End User License Agreement