Part of the "Maths Focus" series, this book contains activities to help teachers assess, reinforce and enrich children's understanding of using calculations to solve problems. The activities cover solving a range of numerical problems in context, choosing appropriate methods of solving numerical problems, calcualations involving percentages, decimals and measurement, and using the relationships between the operations to solve problems.

 

This book is part of a book series called Mathematics Focus .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Scholastic .

Mike Askew is Professor of Primary Education at Monash University, Melbourne and prior to that he was Professor of Mathematics Education at King's College, London University. He has written extensively for both academic and professional readers and his books include Transforming Primary Mathematics (Routledge) and, with Rob Eastaway, the best selling Maths for Mums and Dads (Square Peg/Random House) and most recently More Maths for Mums and Dads (the teenage years) (Square Peg/Random House)