One Hundred Minutes to Better Basic Skills Take just one minute a day to quickly assess student progress in basic math skills! This book features 100 quick drill sheets to help students increase speed in math operations and strengthen problem-solving skills. The 10 problems on each sheet can be done in one or two minutes and are a great warm-up to the daily math lesson.

With 100 day to day activities covering all mathematical strands, this title can be easily integrated into any primary maths programme. It includes easy to follow activities that promote the ongoing learning of essential maths concepts and skills through practice and reinforcement.

Why 60 seconds in a minute? Who invented zero? What exactly is pi? Why do mathematicians hunt prime numbers? And how can you get a number bigger than infinity? To find out, take a tour through 200 important, fascinating and unusual numbers - the easy and entertaining way to grasp mathematics. Numbers in Minutes demystifies the maths surrounding the key numbers including: zero, 1-40, negatives, percentages, prime numbers, fractions, decimals, pi, exponentials, imaginary numbers, squares and cubes, roots and powers, Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio, millions and trillions, a googol, 'perfect,' 'kissing,' 'vampire' and 'weird' numbers, infinity, infinity+1 and other sizes of infinity... Every number is explained in a few short paragraphs with a helpful picture, making the maths simple to understand and remember.

Great for teachers and parents alike! The exercises in this book--called "Minutes"--provide practice in every key area of middle-grade math instruction, including basic multiplication and division facts, graphing, problem solving, measurement, fractions, and more. Each "Minute" consists of 10 classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty to be completed in one minute. Teachers can use the book in a variety of ways such as bell-work, review, assessment, or homework.

Use manipulatives 10 minutes a day with these simple at-a-glance activities Just 6 weeks of these activities will give children a richer and deeper mastery of maths by demonstrating abstract ideas and core mathematical concepts in a variety of representations and problem-solving contexts. Use manipulatives 10 minutes a day with these simple at-a-glance activities - Easy to implement activities for all curriculum areas- Filled with photos for easy reference- Uses a variety of everyday objects and common maths resources Part of the Making Mathematics Count research project from the North Star Teaching Alliance, the approach has been fully trialled to success in primary schools across the country

These two new additions to the bestselling Math Made Easy 10 Minutes a Day series are the perfect at-home reinforcement for math homework. Designed to help Canadian children improve their math abilities without growing bored or restless, these helpful math workbooks each feature 10-minute exercises consisting of word problems (story problems) like time problems, working with money, weights and measures, conversion problems and area and volume problems that allow kids to apply what they've learned in math class in real world situations. + Each exercise takes a maximum of ten minutes to complete + Parents notes are included with tips, guidance and answers