This text provides an introduction to group theory with an emphasis on clear examples. The authors present groups as naturally occurring structures arising from symmetry in geometrical figures and other mathematical objects. Written in a 'user-friendly' style, where new ideas are always motivated before being fully introduced, the text will help readers to gain confidence and skill in handling group theory notation before progressing on to applying it in complex situations. An ideal companion to any first or second year course on the topic.

Make teaching and learning mathematics relevant and enjoyable with the best-known Primary mathematics series in the Caribbean updated and revised for the 21st Century by practising teachers, with a new focus on self-directed learning, problem -solving and raising standards. - Ensure all requirements of primary schools in all Caribbean territories from kindergarten to primary school exit examination level are covered. - Engage students and make maths more relevant with real-life situations used throughout the book, including the front cover, showing Mathematics in action. - Reinforce knowledge and encourage progression with Assessment Bank, available separately to compliment the topics covered in this series. - Encourage students to understand and build their own learning with all key skills and concepts clearly introduced in sequence, demonstrating links between mathematical strands and other curriculum subjects.

Make teaching and learning mathematics relevant and enjoyable with the best-known Primary mathematics series in the Caribbean updated and revised for the 21st Century by practising teachers, with a new focus on self-directed learning, problem-solving and raising standards. - Ensure all requirements of primary schools in all Caribbean territories from kindergarten to primary school exit examination level are covered. - Engage students and make maths more relevant with real-life situations used throughout the book, including the front cover, showing Mathematics in action. - Reinforce knowledge and encourage progression with Assessment Bank, available separately to compliment the topics covered in this series. - Encourage students to understand and build their own learning with all key skills and concepts clearly introduced in sequence, demonstrating links between mathematical strands and other curriculum subjects.

Make teaching and learning mathematics relevant and enjoyable with the best-known Primary mathematics series in the Caribbean updated and revised for the 21st Century by practising teachers, with a new focus on self-directed learning, problem -solving and raising standards. - Ensure all requirements of primary schools in all Caribbean territories from kindergarten to primary school exit examination level are covered. - Engage students and make maths more relevant with real-life situations used throughout the book, including the front cover, showing Mathematics in action. - Reinforce knowledge and encourage progression with Assessment Bank, available separately to compliment the topics covered in this series. - Encourage students to understand and build their own learning with all key skills and concepts clearly introduced in sequence, demonstrating links between mathematical strands and other curriculum subjects.

Make teaching and learning mathematics relevant and enjoyable with the best-known Primary mathematics series in the Caribbean updated and revised for the 21st Century by practising teachers, with a new focus on self-directed learning, problem -solving and raising standards. - Ensure all requirements of primary schools in all Caribbean territories from kindergarten to primary school exit examination level are covered. - Engage students and make maths more relevant with real-life situations used throughout the book, including the front cover, showing Mathematics in action. - Reinforce knowledge and encourage progression with Assessment Bank, available separately to compliment the topics covered in this series. - Encourage students to understand and build their own learning with all key skills and concepts clearly introduced in sequence, demonstrating links between mathematical strands and other curriculum subjects.

The best-known Primary Mathematics series in the Caribbean, updated and revised for the 21st Century. Practise and reinforce learning from the Student's Book, with fun and inspiring additional exercises. - Focus on self-directed learning, problem-solving and raising standards with a series updated by practising teachers. - Engage students and make maths more relevant with real-life situations, showing Mathematics in daily life. - Encourage students to understand and build their own learning with reinforcement exercises for all key skills and concepts.

Make teaching and learning mathematics relevant and enjoyable with the best-known Primary mathematics series in the Caribbean updated and revised for the 21st Century by practising teachers, with a new focus on self-directed learning, problem-solving and raising standards. - Ensure all requirements of primary schools in all Caribbean territories from kindergarten to primary school exit examination level are covered. - Engage students and make maths more relevant with real-life situations used throughout the book, including the front cover, showing Mathematics in action. - Reinforce knowledge and encourage progression with Assessment Bank, available separately to compliment the topics covered in this series. - Encourage students to understand and build their own learning with all key skills and concepts clearly introduced in sequence, demonstrating links between mathematical strands and other curriculum subjects.

Mathematics is a subject held in high esteem around the world, yet the teaching and learning of mathematics is rarely viewed as good enough and many find the subject difficult to comprehend, or engage with. In Manufacturing the Mathematical Child, Anna Llewellyn asks some difficult questions in order to determine why this is the case and to question who it is that we allow to succeed at mathematics, particularly within the context of neoliberalism, where education is a product of the market. By looking at the various sites of production, Llewellyn examines the ways that key discursive spaces produce very different expectations of what it means to do mathematics and demonstrates that these place various homogenised expectations upon children. Arguing that these are not natural, but instead a reproduction of discursive norms, the book demonstrates why some people fit these standardized ways of being and others do not. Using England as a case study and referring to other international contexts, Llewellyn argues that there is a functionality found within certain educational policy discourses, and a romantic attachment to the natural child found within educational research, neither of which can match what happens in the messy classroom. As a result, it becomes evident that exclusion from mathematics is inevitable for many children. Original and exciting, this book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students within the fields of mathematics education, childhood studies, policy studies, and Foucauldian or post-structural analysis.

Technologic and virtual development is growing, creating an environment of online gaming that can be used as an effective and motivational instrument for math didactics in education. Simulation and Gaming for Mathematical Education: Epistemology and Teaching Strategies provides leading research on ways for various learning environments to be created referring to math didactics through redefinition and reassessment of teaching experiences. A defining collection of field advancements, this publication gradually leads readers through the steps of planning innovative strategies in math education.

This fully updated second edition synthesises the findings of the best of recent research from different parts of the world. Marilyn Nickson covers issues as diverse as pupils' understanding and handling of number, algebra, space and measurement, and their problem-solving ability, as well as the nature of assessment and the impact of ICT on the classroom. Each chapter provides both an overview of recent research and a detailed analysis of the most important findings. The research is carefully related to issues of pupils' progress in the subject, the differentiation of teaching, and the role of gender.

Catch up, keep up and make expected progress in GCSE (9-1) Maths with this new series of intervention workbooks, specifically designed for the AQA specification. T his workbook: targets key misconceptions and barriers to help you get back on track addresses areas of underperformance in a systematic way, with a unique approach that builds, develops and extends your skills gets you ready for the new GCSE (9-1) assessments with problem-solving exercises and lots of exam-style questions provides ready-to-use examples and practice questions mapped to the Pearson Progression Map and Scale, helping you to track your progress addresses an area of difficulty in each unit with a unique approach, to develop and extend your skills.

Catch up, keep up and make expected progress in GCSE (9-1) Maths with this new series of intervention workbooks, specifically designed for the AQA specification. T his workbook: targets key misconceptions and barriers to help you get back on track addresses areas of underperformance in a systematic way, with a unique approach that builds, develops and extends your skills gets you ready for the new GCSE (9-1) assessments with problem-solving exercises and lots of exam-style questions provides ready-to-use examples and practice questions mapped to the Pearson Progression Map and Scale, helping you to track your progress addresses an area of difficulty in each unit with a unique approach, to develop and extend your skills.

Make teaching and learning mathematics relevant and enjoyable with the best-known Primary mathematics series in the Caribbean updated and revised for the 21st Century by practising teachers, with a new focus on self-directed learning, problem -solving and raising standards. - Ensure all requirements of primary schools in all Caribbean territories from kindergarten to primary school exit examination level are covered. - Engage students and make maths more relevant with real-life situations used throughout the book, including the front cover, showing Mathematics in action. - Reinforce knowledge and encourage progression with Assessment Bank, available separately to compliment the topics covered in this series. - Encourage students to understand and build their own learning with all key skills and concepts clearly introduced in sequence, demonstrating links between mathematical strands and other curriculum subjects.

A new title in the hugely successful Clever Kids series, this book is packed with memory, word and number games for you to solve. From battleships and mind-bending spot the differences to mazes and number pyramids, there are plenty of puzzles to give your brain a workout. Created by bestselling puzzle book author Gareth Moore, author of the chart-topping success Brain Games for Clever Kids.

The best-known Primary Mathematics series in the Caribbean, updated and revised for the 21st Century. Practise and reinforce learning from the Student's Book, with fun and inspiring additional exercises. - Focus on self-directed learning, problem-solving and raising standards with a series updated by practising teachers. - Engage students and make maths more relevant with real-life situations, showing Mathematics in daily life. - Encourage students to understand and build their own learning with reinforcement exercises for all key skills and concepts.

The Check-up Workbook includes: Check-ups - which assess specific pieces of work Round-ups - provide assessment of the range of mathematics covered according to the 5-14 Attainment targets. They include an end of level test.

Catch up, keep up and make expected progress in GCSE (9-1) Maths with this new series of intervention workbooks, specifically designed for the AQA specification. This workbook: targets key misconceptions and barriers to help you get back on track addresses areas of underperformance in a systematic way, with a unique approach that builds, develops and extends your skills gets you ready for the new GCSE (9-1) assessments with problem-solving exercises and lots of exam-style questions provides ready-to-use examples and practice questions mapped to the Pearson Progression Map and Scale, helping you to track your progress addresses an area of difficulty in each unit with a unique approach, to develop and extend your skills.

This book is divided into seven chapters including: a broad overview of mathematical cognition; development of mathematical cognition; working memory, automaticity and mathematical problem solving; mathematical problem solving; and methematical learning disabilities.

How do you fold a sheet of paper into the shape of a whale? How do you measure the area of a pizza pie? How can you draw a circle within a circle without lifting your pencil from the paper?

Now kids can discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions about elementary geometry—the study of shapes. Packed with illustrations, Geometry for Every Kid uses simple problems and activities to teach kids ages 8 through 12 about acute and obtuse angles, parallel and perpendicular lines, plane and space figures, and much more!

Kids will explore all the different shapes they can form by arranging the pieces of an intriguing Chinese puzzle called a tangram, and learn how to create a colorful 3-D drawing that seems to rise right off the page! They'll construct a twirler stick out of a pencil and an index card to see how surface area affects the movement of a spinning object, and build a geoboard as a quick, fun way to compare the area of different geometric figures.

Each of the activities is broken down into its purpose, a list of materials, step-by-step instructions, expected results, and an explanation that kids can understand. Every project has been pretested and can be performed safely and inexpensively in the classroom or at home.

When learning science means doing science, learning becomes an adventure!

Acclaim for Janice VanCleave's books:

"A super collection of easy biology experiments to conduct at home...A worthwhile purchase."—Kirkus Reviews on Biology for Every Kid

"The creative hands-on activities will enhance learning about the fascinating applications of geometry."—Science Books & Films onGeometry for Every Kid

"Janice Pratt VanCleave's Science books not only teach children the basics of science, but also entertain along the way."—Parent Guide on Science for Every Kid series

Also available in this series from Janice VanCleave:

• ASTRONOMY FOR EVERY KID
• BIOLOGY FOR EVERY KID
• CHEMISTRY FOR EVERY KID
• DINOSAURS FOR EVERY KID
• EARTH SCIENCE FOR EVERY KID
• GEOGRAPHY FOR EVERY KID
• THE HUMAN BODY FOR EVERY KID
• MATH FOR EVERY KID
• PHYSICS FOR EVERY KID

This workbook, with over 40 experiments, covers the following topics: Scientific Investigation, Changes In Matter, Electricity In Matter, Organisms, Light Human Body, Life Cycle and Reproduction, Weather, Earth and How It Changes If you are homeschooling (or if you are just trying to get extra practice for your child), then you already know that science workbooks and curriculum can be expensive. HomeSchool Brew is trying to change that We have teamed with teachers and parents to create books for prices parents can afford. We believe education shouldn't be expensive.