By Robert Sulley
August 2010
Hodder Education
Distributed by the Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781444116588
204 Pages, Illustrated
$17.95 Paper original
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