Book description
In their first, bestselling, book Maths for Mums and Dads Rob
Eastaway and Mike Askew helped you and your child make sense of the
new methods and topics covered in primary school maths.
But as your child embarks on secondary school, two new issues arise.
First, in the build-up to GCSE, school children begin to do maths that
you probably have never encountered before - or if you have, you never
really got it in the first place, and have long since forgotten.
Factorising? Finding the locus?Solving for x? Probability
distributions? What do these even mean?
And there's another problem, too. As your child becomes a teenager,
two dreaded questions increasingly loom: when will I ever need
this? And even worse: who cares?
More Maths for Mums and Dads gives you all the ammunition to
help you to help your teenager get to grips with and feel more
confident about - and hopefully even enjoy - GCSE maths. It covers in
straightforward and easy-to-follow terms the maths your child will
encounter in the build up to GCSE, in many cases gives practical and
fun examples of where the maths crops up in the real world.
Rob Eastaway is one of the UK's leading popularisers of maths and
author of books including the best-selling Why Do Buses Come in
Threes? and How Many Socks Make a Pair?. He gives maths
talks across the UK to audiences of all ages, and is regularly to be
heard on BBC Radio talking about the maths of everyday life.
Mike Askew taught for several years in primary schools in London
before moving to work in teacher education. He was Professor of Maths
Education at King's College London and is now Professor of Maths
Education at Melbourne University, Australia.
Rob and Mike are the co-authors of the acclaimed Maths for Mums
and Dads, Square Peg 2010.
