A parent's guide to helping with maths

Part 1: what's wrong with maths? can parents help? how this system works gaining your child's cooperation before you start writing the exercises hints for helpful parents dealing with difficulies games which help summary. Part 2: starting the oral work basic addition basic subtraction place value or hundreds, tens and units adding and subtracting larger numbers multiplication addition again and back to subtraction - revision is important more multiplication introducing division division again. Part 3: time - telling the time, using the 24-hour clock and timetables, calculating with times fractions - introducing fractions, calculating a fraction of a number, the connection between division and fractions, equivalent fractions, writing one number as a fraction of another decimals - introducing decimals, arithmetic with decimals, multiplying and dividing by ten, a hundred and a thousand, multiplying by a decimal, dividing by a decimal, changing a decimal into a fraction, changing a fraction into a decimal percentages - introducing percentages, changing percentages into fractions and decimals, changing decimals and percentages, changing fractions into percentages, finding a percentage of a number, writing one number as a percentage of another multiplying by large numbers dividing by large numbers measurement - changing units, area, volume estimation and accuracy - rounding numbers, restricting the number of decimal places, estimating answers tackling written questions - helping with written questions, proportion questions.