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 Carol Vorderman's Maths Made Easy Age 10-11 - Carol Vorderman
Description: ISBN 1405309466 / Author: Carol Vorderman / Genre: Junior Books / Let Carol Vorderman help you to succeed in your National End-Key-Stage ... more  Carol Vorderman's Maths Made Easy Age 10-11 - Carol Vorderman ... Assessments for Maths. Follow the exercises then reward yourself with gold stars for your efforts! Get a head start in Maths and be top of the class - the more you practise, the better you'll be! Carol VordermanNewest Review: ... child is asked 'If Brian and Daniel put their towers together, how much shorter will it be than Mira's?' We then have three ... more ... pages devoted to the simple use of brackets, for example (5 x 4) - (3 x 2), where the basic rule is to work out the brackets first. Multiplication and division appear here for the first time, but there are then two pages that involve multiplying decimals, so there is plenty of practice for times tables, which are so often a sticking point even at secondary level. After this there are another three pages of real life problems, the first two of which focus on decimals. The third one, however, features percentages withou...more |
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Carol Vorderman's Maths Made Easy Age 10-11 - Carol Vorderman: Maths practice for 11-year-olds (906 words)
by frangliz - written on 30.10.07 (Very useful, 216 readings)
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This is one of a series of workbooks aimed at primary school children, this particular one covering the first half of the syllabus for Year 6 pupils (age 10-11). I have never quite understood what Carol Vorderman's contribution to the series is - the use of her name and picture seem to be merely a marketing ploy, as the author of the book is John Kennedy, a teacher of mathematics and English. Primary school head teacher Sean McArdle acts as consultant, so Carol Vorderman seems to be just a pretty picture on the front cover. About two-thirds of the book are given over to basic number work, beginning with addition of decimals and progressing through ...
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