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Help Your Kids with Maths Carol Vorderman

Help Your Kids with Maths, Ages 10-16 (Key Stages 3-4) By Carol Vorderman

Help Your Kids with Maths by Carol Vorderman


Summary

Offers a simple, visual guide to help children understand maths. Using clear, accessible pictures and diagrams - and covering everything from basic numeracy to more challenging subjects like statistics and algebra, this book helps you learn to approach even the most complex maths problems with confidence.

Help Your Kids with Maths Summary

Help Your Kids with Maths: A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide by Carol Vorderman

If you find maths mindboggling, then you can count on this ultimate home-study guide to get all the answers you need.

This visual reference book gets you ready to help your children tackle the trickiest of subjects. From algebra and angles to sequences and statistics -and everything in between - Carol Vorderman's unique study companion sums it all up.

Help Your Kids with Maths encourages parents and children to work together as a team to solve even the most challenging problems on the school syllabus. Made with home learning in mind, this book uses a clear mix of pictures, diagrams, and instructions help to build knowledge, boost confidence, and gain understanding. This latest version includes updates to the UK National Curriculum and features additional information on roman numerals, time, fractions, and times tables.

With your support, children can overcome the challenges of maths, leaving them calm, confident, and exam ready.

About Carol Vorderman

Carol Vorderman, one of Britain's best known and loved TV personalities, feels passionately about the value of education. Carol joined forces with DK in 1999 to become DK's Education Champion and has helped them to build the bestselling "Made Easy" series, which includes topics in maths, English, and science and technology. She has also encouraged parents and their teenage children to work together in the "Help Your Kids" series, which includes Help Your Kids With Science and Help Your Kids With English. Versatile as ever, Carol has also provided an accessible and fun entry into the world of computer programming with Computer Coding Projects For Kids.

Table of Contents

  • 1: Foreword
  • 2: Introduction
  • 3: Numbers
    • 1: Introducing numbers
    • 2: Addition
    • 3: Subtraction
    • 4: Multiplication
    • 5: Division
    • 6: Prime numbers
    • 7: Units of measurement
    • 8: Telling the time
    • 9: Roman numerals
    • 10: Positive and negative numbers
    • 11: Powers and roots
    • 12: Surds
    • 13: Standard form
    • 14: Decimals
    • 15: Binary numbers
    • 16: Fractions
    • 17: Ratio and proportion
    • 18: Percentages
    • 19: Converting fractions, decimals, and percentages
    • 20: Mental maths
    • 21: Rounding off
    • 22: Using a calculator
    • 23: Personal finance
    • 24: Business finance
  • 4: Geometry
    • 1: What is geometry?
    • 2: Tools in geometry
    • 3: Angles
    • 4: Straight lines
    • 5: Symmetry
    • 6: Coordinates
    • 7: Vectors
    • 8: Translations
    • 9: Rotations
    • 10: Reflections
    • 11: Enlargements
    • 12: Scale drawings
    • 13: Bearings
    • 14: Constructions
    • 15: Loci
    • 16: Triangles
    • 17: Constructing triangles
    • 18: Congruent triangles
    • 19: Area of a triangle
    • 20: Similar triangles
    • 21: Pythagoras' theorem
    • 22: Quadrilaterals
    • 23: Polygons
    • 24: Circles
    • 25: Circumference and diameter
    • 26: Area of a circle
    • 27: Angles in a circle
    • 28: Chords and cyclic quadrilaterals
    • 29: Tangents
    • 30: Arcs
    • 31: Sectors
    • 32: Solids
    • 33: Volumes
    • 34: Surface area of solids
  • 5: Trigonometry
    • 1: What is trigonometry?
    • 2: Using formulas in trigonometry
    • 3: Finding missing sides
    • 4: Finding missing angles
  • 6: Algebra
    • 1: What is algebra?
    • 2: Sequences
    • 3: Working with expressions
    • 4: Expanding and factorizing expressions
    • 5: Quadratic expressions
    • 6: Formulas
    • 7: Solving equations
    • 8: Linear graphs
    • 9: Simultaneous equations
    • 10: Factorizing quadratic equations
    • 11: The quadratic formula
    • 12: Quadratic graphs
    • 13: Inequalities
  • 7: Statistics
    • 1: What is statistics?
    • 2: Collecting and organizing data
    • 3: Bar charts
    • 4: Pie charts
    • 5: Line graphs
    • 6: Averages
    • 7: Moving averages
    • 8: Measuring spread
    • 9: Histograms
    • 10: Scatter diagrams
  • 8: Probability
    • 1: What is probability?
    • 2: Expectation and reality
    • 3: Combined probabilities
    • 4: Dependent events
    • 5: Tree diagrams
  • 9: Reference section
  • 10: Glossary
  • 11: Index
  • 12: Acknowledgements

Additional information

GOR006198034
9781409355717
1409355713
Help Your Kids with Maths: A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide by Carol Vorderman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
2014-07-01
264
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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