Reduce the stress of studying algebra, geometry, and statistics and help your child with their maths homework, following Carol Vorderman's unique visual maths book.

Help Your Kids with Maths shows parents how to work with their kids to solve maths problems step-by-step. Using pictures, diagrams, and easy-to-follow instructions and examples to cover all the important areas - covering everything from basic numeracy to more challenging subjects like statistics, trigonometry, and algebra - you'll learn to approach even the most complex maths problems with confidence. This visual maths guide has been updated and includes the latest changes to the UK National Curriculum and with additional content on roman numerals, time, fractions, and times tables. It also includes a glossary of key maths terms and symbols.

Help Your Kids with Maths is the perfect guide for every frustrated parent and desperate child, who wants to understand maths and put it into practise.

This book is part of a book series called Help Your Kids With .

There are 264 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .

Carol Vorderman is the best-selling author of a number of non-fiction titles. She has also been the numbers face of Countdown for over two decades and a popular TV-presenting personality. She was awarded an MBE in 2000.

This book has the following chapters:

• 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