This book contains 24 number challenges. Children tackle them using strategies they know. If those strategies don't crack the problem, they learn new ones that fit, or do the job faster or more efficiently. The lessons in this book are genuinely interactive. Children develop and explain their ideas, growing in confidence as they begin to think for themselves.

 

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by BEAM .

Carole Skinner is an independent early years consultant and founder associate of Early Education, the UK's leading educational charity for parents, carers and early years practitioners. Judith Stevens is an independent early learning consultant, trainer and author based in the UK who led the highly regarded Every Child a Talker programme in London and South East England.

This book has the following chapters: 18 addition and subtraction classroom activities; 6 multiplication and division classroom activities; detailed explanations of the strategies; learning grids; progress chart