Contents |
Introduction | 4 |
How to use this book | 4 |
Curriculum links | 5 |
Prime numbers and composite numbers | 6 |
Build your maths muscles with prime and composite numbers | 6 |
Pick your primes | 7 |
Know your primes and composites | 8 |
Activity cards: Revise your primes and composites | 9 |
Squared numbers and square roots | 10 |
Build your maths muscles with squared numbers and square roots | 10 |
Fair and squared | 11 |
Activity cards: Revise your squared numbers and square roots | 12 |
Factors and multiples | 13 |
Build your maths muscles with factors | 13 |
Find those fabulous factors | 14 |
Climb down a factor tree | 15 |
Activity cards: Revise your freaky factor trees | 16 |
Build your maths muscles with factors and multiples | 17 |
Figure out those factors and multiples | 18 |
Head for the highest common factor | 19 |
Activity cards: Revise your highest common factors | 20 |
How low can you go with common multiples? | 21 |
Activity cards: Revise your multiples | 22 |
Activity cards: Revise your lowest common multiples | 23 |
Roll and win | 24 |
Using associative, commutative and distributive laws | 25 |
Build your maths muscles using mathematical laws to solve problems | 25 |
Make the case for the commutative law | 26 |
Dicing with the commutative law | 27 |
Associative action | 28 |
Activity cards: Revise your associative law | 29 |
Delve into distributive methods | 30 |
Delve deeper into distributive methods | 31 |
Activity cards: Revise your distributive law | 32 |
Integers | 33 |
Build your maths muscles with integers | 33 |
Show your integer intelligence: adding and subtracting | 34 |
Show your integer intelligence: multiplying and dividing | 35 |
Order of operations | 36 |
Build your maths muscles with the order of operations | 36 |
Start with the B in BEDMAS | 37 |
Second thoughts about the E in BEDMAS | 38 |
Activity cards: Revise your exponents | 39 |
Follow BEDMAS to the end | 40 |
BEDMAS crack the code | 41 |
Fractions, decimals and percentages | 42 |
Build your maths muscles with equivalent decimals, fractions and percentages | 42 |
Get the bug with fractions, decimals and percentages | 43 |
Take on the equivalent challenge | 44 |
Build your maths muscles with decimals and place value | 46 |
Dip into decimals | 47 |
Build your maths muscles for converting fractions, decimals and percentages | 48 |
Confidently convert fractions to decimals and percentages | 49 |
Confidently convert between decimals and percentages | 50 |
Confidently convert decimals to fractions | 51 |
Review | 52 |
Show your wisdom with word problems | 52 |
Magic squares | 53 |
Quick quiz for brainiacs | 54 |
Have the last word | 56 |
Selected answers | 57 |