How to Be Good at Math: Your Brilliant Brain and How to Train It

by D.K. Publishing

Math can be a mental minefield for many, but this essential home-study guide ensures everything adds up.

This comprehensive math book for primary school children and their parents keeps the subject simple from start to finish. Whether solving subtraction, mastering multiples, or deciphering division, How to be Good at Math has got you covered.

Eyecatching graphics and step-by-step sequences work together to lay the foundations of numeracy. There is plenty of fun to be had with exciting examples to aid accessibility and understanding. You'll fly down a zip wire to get the gist of geometry, time a robot runner in the race to deduce decimals, and use space scales to weigh yourself on giant planet Jupiter.

Made with home learning in mind, How to be Good at Math also contains memorable facts and extra challenges to refresh your knowledge throughout. Primary school math can be practiced again and again to ensure this tricky topic is easier than ever before.

Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

Published July 5, 2016

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[L.E. Fidler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of us have felt like we "are not good" at math pretty much since we were first taught that math was a thing we needed to learn.

Me, I am some of us.

Having children (as well as a curious number of math teacher friends) has taught me that despite my fear of algebra, calculus, trigonometry, and long division...I need to model a healthier approach to things that I feel less successful with.

Particularly for my girls, but also Liam could benefit from seeing mom struggle, try, read, try again, phone a friend, try again, read more, get it sort of, and try again.

So, that's why I have this book. It's helpful. It would have been more helpful if I realized that my MIL had helped with some of the toolkit pieces in the initial research some of this was based on. Probably wouldn't have needed the book if I had just called her in the first place.

Still, glad to have the resource for the next time we cry over dividing fractions using rulers.

[Rachel Woodruff · Rating 5 out of 5]

We got this from the local library and ended up ordering a copy from Amazon. It is an excellent book for helping teach basic math concepts. We use it everyday as part of our lesson.

[Bree · Rating 1 out of 5]

Notes:
ridiculously visually overwhelming; neither my kids nor I could enjoy this book

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent tool for relearning elementary math as an adult 🫣

[Katryna Ells · Rating 4 out of 5]

a great resource we used to help explain math to our grandsons who were having difficulty is certain areas