First Aid in Mathematics

ISBN 9781444116588
Hodder Education
Paperback: 208 pages
Pub Date: Jul 2010
£5.99

Building on the success of the renowned classic, 'New First Aid in English', this new book offers to students of Mathematics all the help, support, practice and exercises required for achieving and consolidating knowledge. Generations of students may now benefit from the invaluable and comprehensive coverage offered within its pages. Like its illustrious companion volume, First Aid in Mathematics offers a carefully planned and graded book, covering all key strands of mathematics, in a clear, accessible and supportive framework. Its attention to language levels throughout makes it particularly useful in all environments in which Mathematics is taught in English.

• Traditional maths teaching to ensure comprehensive coverage
• Language controlled for clarity and accessibility
• Wide range of exercises to embed knowledge and skills
  
  Table of Contents:
  Section 1 Numbers
  Numbers and place value
  Ordering numbers
  Positive and negative numbers
  Addition and subtraction
  Roman numerals
  Multiplication
  Division (including odd and even)
  Multiples, factors, prime numbers and square numbers
  Fractions (including adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions)
  Decimals (including adding, subtracting, multiplying and deviding decimals)
  Ratios
  Percentages
  Number places/coordinates
  Section 2 Measurement
  Length
  Temperature
  Mass
  Capacity
  Area
  Volume
  Scale drawing
  Time
  Time lines (BC/AD)
  Section 3 Geometry
  Lines
  Angles
  Shape and symmetry
  Tiling and tessellation
  Rotation
  Section 4 Statistics - collecting and handling data
  Graphs
  Tables
  Stem and leaf
  Data collection
  Sets
  Averages: mean, median, mode, range
  Probability
  Section 5 Money
  Section 6 Algebra
  Sentences
  Substitution
  Simplifying
  Section 7 Revision tests