Bill Handley 
Speed Maths for Kids 
Helping Children Achieve Their Full Potential

UPDATED 2022

What if you could teach your kids simple maths strategies that can be applied to almost any calculation? What if you could show them that learning maths can be fun?

Popular Australian author and inspirational teacher Bill Handley’s methods of teaching mathematics and learning strategies have achieved amazing results. In this bestselling book, he shows readers that kids who excel at maths are not necessarily more intelligent–they simply use better strategies!

Speed Maths for Kids makes the methods and principles for maths calculations clearer, encourages creative thought, and is just plain fun. Now fully revised with new chapters and strategies, the book also has notes throughout for parents and teachers to help their children engage and learn more easily.

Help your child:

* Learn to enjoy maths

* Tackle tests without the stress

* Achieve better results on quizzes, NAPLAN, and exams

By following Handley’s innovative approach, you will have kids playing with numbers, performing lightning-quick calculations and, most of all, having fun! Give your child a boost in school–and make mathematics their favourite subject.

Tabla de materias

Preface v

Introduction vii

1 Multiplication: Getting started 1

2 Using a reference number 12

3 Numbers above the reference number 21

4 Multiplying above & below the reference number 30

5 Checking your answers 36

6 Multiplication using any reference number 46

7 Multiplying lower numbers 64

8 Multiplication by 11 75

9 Multiplying decimals 83

10 Multiplication using two reference numbers 94

11 Using factors with two reference numbers 116

12 Addition 124

13 Subtraction 135

14 Calculating left to right 154

15 Simple division 166

16 Long division by factors 191

17 Standard long division made easy 201

18 Direct long division 209

19 Long division by adding 220

20 Checking answers (division) 244

21 Fractions made easy 252

22 Direct multiplication 266

23 Putting it all into practice 276

Appendix A: Using the methods in the classroom 280

Appendix B: Working through a problem 284

Appendix C: Learn the 13, 14 and 15 times tables287

Appendix D: Tests for divisibility 289

Appendix E: Keeping count 293

Appendix F: Plus and minus numbers 295

Appendix G: Percentages 297

Appendix H: Hints for learning 302

Appendix I: Estimating 304

Appendix J: Squaring numbers ending in 5 307

Appendix K: Mathematical terms (glossary) 310

Appendix L: Practice sheets 313

Afterword321

Acknowledgements324

Sobre el autor

Bill Handley is an internationally recognised authority on study methods and mathematics, based in Melbourne. He is the author of many best-selling titles, including Teach Your Children Tables and Speed Maths for Kids.