Excel Basic Skills Mental Maths Strategies

Download or read book Mental Maths Strategies written by Alan Parker and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just Mental Maths books - this series will equip students w ith all the mental maths strategies they need 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 focus of this series. Mental Maths has become m ore important than ever and new primary Maths syllabuses in Australia ar e reflecting this. For example, 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 each school term. Each unit is divided into four sets (A, B, C an d D) each set within each unit covers a different area of Maths : for example, set A always covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, while set D always covers measurement the fun il lustrations and cartoons will help 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 'Help' section at the front of the book gives different strategies a nd explanations to help students solve Mentals problems. This link to th e different kind of questions found in sets A, B, C and D