Developing Mental Maths with 7-9 Year Olds Book

Focusing on reinforcing the four operations, this book extends counting skills and understanding of place value, reinforces and develops strategies using the four operations, and introduces multi-step problems with mixed operations. The book is part of a series for teachers to help them to meet curriculum requirements to make children aware of the wide range of strategies available for mental calculation and improve the children's flexibility and quick recall of number facts. Each book provides information on the importance of mental maths and managing mental maths lessons, the range of strategies the children might choose from for counting and ordering numbers and for each of the operations, advice about appropriately sized numbers to use, and a selection of easily-adapted model activities for practice and discussion. Each book ends with a small number of photocopiable pages to support specific activities and a writing frame to facilitate self-evaluation.Read More