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How to be Good at Maths

The Simplest-Ever Visual Guide
By Carol Vorderman
Series: DK How to Be Good at
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How to be Good at Maths by Carol Vorderman is an engaging guide designed to help children master mathematics in an easy and enjoyable way. Through clear explanations, vibrant visuals, and practical activities, the book covers a range of mathematical concepts, making learning fun and effective for younger readers.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking for a child-friendly guide to making maths engaging and fun. It's packed with clear explanations, colourful visuals, and tips to help children grasp mathematical concepts with confidence. Perfect for young learners eager to improve their skills in a supportive and enjoyable way.

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Are you baffled by negative numbers? Need help rounding up or down? Or how to add fractions? This book helps you find out how many million times we blink each year, calculate the mean average of your family and even use pizza to understand pesky fractions. It introduces each topic with colourful pictures, real-life examples and fascinating facts.

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Become a maths whizz and master decimals, fractions, formulas and much more.

Maths can be a mental minefield for many, but this essential visual guide ensures everything adds up.

This comprehensive maths book for primary school children and their parents keeps the subject simple from start to finish. Whether solving subtraction, mastering multiples, or deciphering division, How to be Good at Maths has got you covered.

Eye-catching graphics and step-by-step sequences work together to lay the foundations of numeracy. There is plenty of fun to be had with exciting examples to aid accessibility and understanding. You'll fly down a zipwire to get the gist of geometry, time a robot runner in the race to deduce decimals, and use space scales to weigh yourself on the giant planet Jupiter.

With memorable facts and extra challenges to refresh your knowledge throughout, primary school maths can be practised again and again to ensure this tricky topic is easier than ever before.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241185988

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 July 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK Children

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 221.0mm

Height: 284.0mm

Weight: 1516g

Pages: 320

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Carol Vorderman Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Penguin Books Science & Nature Series: DK How to Be Good at

About the Author

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 Music. Versatile as ever, Carol has also provided an accessible and fun entry into the world of computer programming with Computer Coding Projects For Kids.

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