Developing Mental Maths with 7-9 year olds

Description

This exciting series of practical ideas will  broaden children’s strategies for mental maths, increasing their confidence and flexibility with numbers.

Each book in this series:

• explain how to manage appropriate oral maths sessions
• offers guidance on the range and size of numbers to use
• provides a progression of strategies the children might suggest  (or that you might like to introduce)
• contains a rich source of easily accessible challenges, investigations and games
• supports the vital discussion through which children will exchange their ideas.

Developing Mental Maths with 7-9 year olds:

• extends counting skills and understanding of place value.
• reinforces and develops strategies using the four operations
• introduces multi-step problems with mixed operations

Further books in this series include ‘Developing Mental Maths with 5-7 year olds’  and  ‘Developing mental Maths with 9-11year olds’