Help Your Child With Numeracy Ages 7-11

✍ Scribed by Rosemary Russell

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 113
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Maths is good for you! Research has shown that: Numeracy exercises are very good for the brain In the long term, numeracy helps employment prospects, and *Maths qualifications can lead to more earning power Are you the parent or carer of a young child, keen to help with school work at home - but worried that you might not do a good job? Presented as a colourful and easy-to-follow guide, this book will demystify what children are being taught in school and is brimming with ideas on how you can help your child with their numeracy at home. It will: Secure your own knowledge Give you ideas of how to help your child Provide exercises to do with your child Show you what schools are trying to do Lead you to more resources And most important of all, it will help you make maths fun! Rosemary Russell has much experience helping parents help their children with their numeracy skills. This book will show you that you are the very best person for the job, and will give you the incentive to spend quality time with your child so that you can learn together and improve your child's chances to do well and be happy in school.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Moving on......Page 10
The most important help – providing the right environment......Page 11
Start from where they are......Page 12
Lots of ways to learn......Page 13
Great expectations – but not too great!......Page 14
Numeracy Strategy (The Primary Framework for Mathematics)......Page 16
Typical lessons......Page 20
Levels......Page 21
One-step, two-step and multi-step problems......Page 22
Understand what calculations are required......Page 24
How you can help your child......Page 25
Background......Page 26
Units, tens, hundreds and thousands: how our number system works......Page 27
An extract from our number system......Page 28
Starting off......Page 29
Decimals......Page 30
Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000......Page 31
Multiplying decimals by 10, 100, 1000......Page 32
Division by 10, 100, 1000......Page 33
Ordering numbers and the symbols > and <......Page 34
Making connections – sequences......Page 35
Ordering decimals......Page 36
Equivalent fractions......Page 37
Decimal fractions......Page 39
Finding a percentage of an amount......Page 40
Ratio and proportion......Page 41
Starting off......Page 43
Rounding......Page 44
The rule for rounding......Page 45
Knowing number facts and doubling and halving......Page 46
Inverse operations......Page 47
Using inverse operations......Page 48
Using rounding to get an approximation......Page 49
Written methods......Page 50
Stages in learning addition......Page 51
Carrying......Page 52
Extending addition skills to using decimals......Page 53
Many methods of subtraction......Page 55
Easier subtractions......Page 56
Subtraction by decomposition......Page 57
Subtraction by equal addition......Page 58
Harder subtractions using the decomposition method of subtraction......Page 59
Decomposition......Page 61
Equal addition......Page 62
Multiplication......Page 64
Steps in mastering a written method of multiplication......Page 65
Vertical format......Page 68
Background......Page 69
Using a number line......Page 70
Using a standard (traditional) form......Page 71
How does ‘chunking’ compare with the traditional method?......Page 72
Background......Page 76
Types of angles......Page 77
How to use a protractor......Page 78
Calculating angles on a straight line......Page 80
Angles in a triangle......Page 81
Demonstration of angles in a triangle adding up to 180°......Page 82
How to convert between metric units......Page 84
Metric and imperial units......Page 85
Area and perimeter......Page 86
Compound shapes......Page 87
Understanding the difference between the area and perimeter......Page 88
Calculating areas of rectangles......Page 89
Compound areas......Page 90
Time......Page 91
24-hour clock and 12-hour clock......Page 92
Lengths of journeys using 24-hour clock......Page 93
How to help your child......Page 95
Background......Page 96
The mode......Page 97
The mean......Page 98
How is probability taught in schools?......Page 99
How to help your child......Page 100
Glossary......Page 101
Appendix 1 - Multiplication square......Page 105
Appendix 2 - Useful resources......Page 107
Appendix 3 - Metric/Imperial conversions......Page 109
Appendix 4 - Workout answers......Page 110