Product Description: Mathematics often gets a bad press. Describing someone as 'calculating' or 'rational' is hardly as flattering as being labelled 'artistic' or 'creative' and mathematicians in movies or novels are often portrayed as social misfits who rarely get the guy or girl...read more

Product Description: A Practical Guide to Transforming Primary Mathematics offers inspiration and ideas for all training and practising teachers committed to making mathematics enjoyable, inclusive, engaging and successful. The companion to Mike Askew’s bestselling book, Transforming Primary Mathematics, this practical guide focuses on showing you how to unlock the powerful potential of a small set of consistent principles and practices, known as the teaching tripod, to develop a coherent approach to teaching mathematics...read more

Product Description: This is a complete resource for teaching word problems. You get a fully illustrated big book to share with the class, a teachers' book of notes and photocopiables and a CD-ROM so you can display the pages of the big book on your OHP or whiteboard.

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This is a complete resource for teaching word problems. You get a fully illustrated big book to share with the class, a teachers' book of notes and photocopiables and a CD-ROM so you can display the pages of the big book on your OHP or whiteboard.

Product Description: This is a complete resource for teaching word problems. You get a fully illustrated big book to share with the class, a teachers' book of notes and photocopiables and a CD-ROM so you can display the pages of the big book on your OHP or whiteboard.

Product Description: LogiCards for Years 3 and 4 is based on a theme of houses; each house card has different characteristics. Children need to identify similarities and differences and think logically to solve problems. Elevate your children's rational thinking!

Product Description: Globally, mathematics and science education faces three crucial challenges: an increasing need for mathematics and science graduates; a declining enrolment of school graduates into university studies in these disciplines; and the varying quality of school teaching in these areas...read more

Product Description: A fascinating and interactive guide to the history and applications of geometry, this book includes clear and concise explanations of many geometric concepts. The different chapters, written in an accessible and readable format, lead the reader from introduction to a mastery of basic abilities through a combination of step-by-step exercises...read more

Product Description: In their first, bestselling book, Maths for Mums and Dads, Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew helped you and your child make sense of the new methods and topics covered in primary school maths. But as your child embarks on secondary school, two new issues arise...read more

‘Lively and thought provoking…at a key time in the development of primary mathematics teaching and learning. It offers a very much richer model of mathematics learning than is available to many young learners and has the potential to have a real impact on the way mathematics is taught.’ - Jan Winter, Bristol University, UK What is good mathematics teaching? What is mathematics teaching good for? Who is mathematics teaching for? Under-pinned by findings from the largest research programme into primary mathematics funded in recent years, Transforming Primary Mathematics offers a clear, practical approach to implementing fundamental change in curriculum, classroom environment and teaching styles. It offers an inspiring, sometimes controversial, and often unconventional look at the subject of mathematics, by: Endorsing the use of a ‘new mathematics’ – one based on problem solving, modelling and inquiry, not on abstract rules, memorising, and regurgitation Arguing that there is more to maths teaching than ‘death by a thousand worksheets’ Challenging norms, such as the practice of sorting children into sets based on their perceived mathematical ability Advocating an environment where teachers are encouraged to take risks Looking at how best to prepare learners for an unknown future Encouraging reflection on teachers’ own beliefs and values about mathematics. Transforming Primary Mathematics is for all primary school teachers who want to make mathematics welcoming, engaging, inclusive and successful.

For many primary school teachers, mathematics is a subject that causes concern; its place within their personal biographies may be uncomfortable and replete with memories of confusion, pain and limited success. This book develops a framework for discussing primary school teachers making changes to their understandings and practices.