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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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Preface v
Introduction vii
1 Multiplication: Getting started 1
2 Using a reference number 12
3 Numbers above the reference number 21
4 Multiplying above & below the reference number 30
5 Checking your answers 36
6 Multiplication using any reference number 46
7 Multiplying lower numbers 64
8 Multiplication by 11 75
9 Multiplying decimals 83
10 Multiplication using two reference numbers 94
11 Using factors with two reference numbers 116
12 Addition 124
13 Subtraction 135
14 Calculating left to right 154
15 Simple division 166
16 Long division by factors 191
17 Standard long division made easy 201
18 Direct long division 209
19 Long division by adding 220
20 Checking answers (division) 244
21 Fractions made easy 252
22 Direct multiplication 266
23 Putting it all into practice 276
Appendix A: Using the methods in the classroom 280
Appendix B: Working through a problem 284
Appendix C: Learn the 13, 14 and 15 times tables287
Appendix D: Tests for divisibility 289
Appendix E: Keeping count 293
Appendix F: Plus and minus numbers 295
Appendix G: Percentages 297
Appendix H: Hints for learning 302
Appendix I: Estimating 304
Appendix J: Squaring numbers ending in 5 307
Appendix K: Mathematical terms (glossary) 310
Appendix L: Practice sheets 313
Afterword321
Acknowledgements324
关于作者
Bill Handley is an internationally recognised authority on study methods and mathematics, based in Melbourne. He is the author of many best-selling titles, including Teach Your Children Tables and Speed Maths for Kids.
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