Excel Basic Skills Workbook: Mental Maths Strategies Year 1 Paperback – 30 November 2004

More than just Mental Maths books – this series will equip students w ith the entire mental maths strategies they wish to excel in Maths through out their lives. Mental Maths is the maths we do in our heads without th e use of calculators and without writing down the calculation. Mental Ma ths strategies are the ‘tricks’ we use to do Maths in our heads. There a re different ways of finding the answer to any Mental Maths problem, and such strategies are the point of interest of this series. Mental Maths has change into m ore important than ever and new primary Maths syllabuses in Australia ar e reflecting this. For instance, NSW has placed an emphasis on Mental Mat hs in its primary syllabus, and even the Year 10 School Certificate exam ination has a compulsory non-calculator section.

Features of this book:

• 32 double-page units of Mentals are included – 8 uni ts for Every school term. Every unit is divided into four sets (A, B, C an d D)
• each set within Every unit covers a different area of Maths : For instance, set A all the time covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, whilst set D all the time covers measurement
• the fun il lustrations and cartoons will Lend a hand children engage with the Maths concep ts and enjoy completing the activities
• the answers to all quest ions are in a lift-out section in the centre of the book
• a spec ial ‘Lend a hand’ section at the front of the book gives different strategies a nd explanations to Lend a hand students solve Mentals problems. This link to th e different more or less questions found in sets A, B, C and D