Product Description

These fun sessions will jumpstart pupils’ enthusiasm for mathematical learning.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12773 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Review
"This book has activities that are mainly intended to be used as a warm-up during the first part of a numeracy lesson. It is suitable for KS1, 2 and 3 and the activities match the strands of the national numeracy strategy...I used a snap game for percentages, decimals and fractions with Year 6 and they loved it." Learning Support magazine, April/May 2006

From the Back Cover

These fun sessions will jumpstart pupils’ enthusiasm for mathematical learning. Suitable for all abilities across Key Stages 1, 2 and 3; activities match the strands of the National Numeracy Strategy. The ‘jumpstarts’ cover:

• brain bending quizzes - get pupils thinking
• oral games – warm up pupils’ mathematical vocabulary
• differentiated games and quizzes
• activities for interactive whiteboards, flipcharts PCs
• ICT handy hints.

About the Author
John Taylor, is Distance Learning Development Officer to Education Walsall. He is an experienced author of maths workbooks and has been a primary teacher. John also runs his own maths website.

Customer Reviews

Liven up maths!
This book is fantastic! Just what I needed to make me want to teach maths again. After being given many boring recommendations for maths teaching, it has reminded me that creativity in maths makes it fun. Lots of kinaesthetic games, and plenty of cool tricks using the interactive whiteboard for me to show off with next time I am observed teaching maths. I am definitely going to by the literacy version by the same author.

More suitable for upper juniors...
I bought this title as I already had the Literacy version which I loved. I wasn't as happy with the numeracy version, I felt it was not as easy to dip in to & hence why it got 4 stars instead of 5. Saying that it is till a good, fun numeracy book with plenty of creative ideas. In my opinion many of the ideas are more suitable for children in year 5 & 6, but the priciples can be applied to any year group. Worth the money though if you just want to 'pep' up your numeracy lessons.

jumpstart
this book is a great purchase for all involved in working with young people. It gets you and them active which is great