Bill Handley 
Teach Your Children Tables 

Great math skills are a head start to lasting success Teach Your Children Tables is the ultimate guide toimproving your child’s mathematical abilities. Written by arenowned education expert, this book provides a proven approach toteaching that will help you enable your child to mastermultiplication tables in less than half an hour, and solve problemslike 96 x 97 faster than they could tap it into a calculator! Thisupdated third edition includes new chapters on factors and playingwith square numbers, plus tips for learning tables up to fifteenand beyond.Children will learn that numbers can be fun while they improvetheir thinking skills, boost their confidence and self esteem, learn problem solving strategies, and set themselves up for lastingeducational success.People who excel at maths are not necessarily more intelligent, they just use better strategies than the rest of us. This bookgives you the perspective and the strategies you need to improveyour child’s understanding of maths, and introduce them totechniques that will have them performing like geniuses! Imaginehelping your child:* Perform lightning-quick calculations* Discover easy methods of multiplication* Learn the basic principles of mathematics* Have fun playing with numbers Excellent maths skills present a serious advantage, throughoutschool and beyond. Children who are good at maths get bettergrades, higher test scores, and are accepted into better schools.Maths-minded adults are more in demand professionally, in fieldsthat pay better and provide more room for upward mobility. If youcould give your child this kind of gift, why wouldn’t you? Now youcan–Teach Your Children Tables shows you how, andmakes it feel like fun.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi Part I: Learning the method 11 Teach your child tables 32 Multiplication — getting started 93 Using a reference number 174 Multiplying numbers above and below the reference number 275 Checking your answers 356 Multiplication — more about the methods 457 A fun mathematical short cut — multiplying by 11 658 Factors 759 Multiplying using two reference numbers 8110 Using two reference numbers with factors 9711 Learning beyond the tables 10512 Playing with squares 11513 Direct multiplication 131Part II: Having fun with numbers 14314 Solving problems and puzzles 14515 Alphametics — fun with numbers 16116 Encyclopaedia salesman puzzle 169Part III: Solutions and practice sheets 173Appendix A: Solutions to puzzles in chapter 14 175Appendix B: Solutions to alphametic problems in chapter 15 187Appendix C: Solution to encyclopaedia salesman puzzle 201Appendix D: Practice sheets 205Appendix E: Why the method works 213Conclusion 215

Über den Autor

BILL HANDLEY is recognised as an authority on teachingand study techniques in Australia and overseas. His methods ofteaching maths and learning and thinking strategies have achievedastonishing results in schools worldwide.