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Many parents are not confident helping their children with math homework, partly because math is taught differently today. This reassuring book covers the dilemmas and problems parents are likely to be confronted with up to the end of primary school.
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At last, help is at hand for every parent for whom `maths homework' brings nothing but a cold chill.One third of parents are not confident when dealing with their children's maths homework. At worst, they stumble over even the most simple maths questions, And-even confident mums and dads can be stumped by modern teaching methods: children are no longer being taught `the important old-fashioned stuff' or are being taught to do long multiplication in a new-fagled, different way. What happened to learning their times tables? What exactly are `empty number lines', `partitioning' and `number bonds', and why do our kids need them anyway?
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