Maths on the Go: 101 Fun Ways to Play with Maths

Need some help with addition? Play a game of Salute. Having trouble with times tables? Try Times Table Donk. Floundering with fractions? Get creative cutting up the toast with your kids at breakfast. Busy mums or dads are crying out for quick and easy ways to help their children with primary school math and beyond. Here are 101 simple tips, games, and activities to make practicing math as engaging and enjoyable as possible, for you and your child. All can be incorporated into the everyday routine—at home and on the go—with minimal fuss and no expensive kit—helping children have fun with numbers. Indeed, most of the time they won’t even realize that math is involved. Sneaky! Areas covered include, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, ratio and proportion, telling the time, estimation, measurement, geometry, and shapes, with an emphasis on problem solving throughout.

Rob Eastaway has written several books that connect math with everyday life, including Why do Buses Come in Threes?, Maths for Mums and Dads, and More Maths for Mums and Dads. He appears regularly on the radio and has given talks about math across the UK to audiences of all ages, at locations ranging from the Royal Exchange Theatre to Pentonville Prison. Mike Askew is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Until recently he was Professor of Primary Education at Monash University, Melbourne and previously Professor of Mathematics Education at King's College, University of London. A former primary school teacher, he now researches, speaks, and writes on teaching and learning primary mathematics. For the Academic year 2006/2007 he was Visiting Distinguished Scholar at City College, City University New York.