Speed Math for Kids Achieve Their Full Potential

Appendix C LEARN THE 13, 14 AND 15 TIMES TABLES When you know your multiplication tables up to the 5 times ...

Appendix D TESTS FOR DIVISIBILITY It is often useful to know whether a number is evenly divisible by another ...

rule for 7. You multiply the final digit of the number by 4 and add the answer to the number preceding it. If ...

Appendix E KEEPING COUNT People have kept count of things since the earliest times. We keep count every ...

Appendix F PLUS AND MINUS NUMBERS Note to Parents and Teachers The method of multiplication taught in this book in ...

Appendix G PERCENTAGES What is A Percentage? Percentages are important. We are always meeting up with the ...

To calculate 30% of $58 you would multiply 58 by 30 divided by 100. Because 30 and 100 are both divisible by ...

Appendix H HINTS FOR LEARNING We don’t all think the same way and we don’t all learn the same way. When ...

Appendix I ESTIMATING Often, it makes far more sense to estimate than it does to give an exact answer ...

Appendix J SQUARING NUMBERS ENDING IN 5 When you multiply a number by itself (for example, 3 × 3, or 5 ...

c) 115^2 d) 985^2 The answers are: a) 1,225 b) 7,225 c) 13,225 d) 970,225 For more strategies about squaring numb ...

Appendix K PRACTICE SHEETS Please photocopy these sheets as required. ...

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INDEX 13, 14 and 15 times tables A addition —breakdown of numbers —order of addition C calculators —beating casting out ...

F factors fractions —adding —changing to decimals —dividing —multiplying —simplifying answers —subtracting H halving numbe ...

percentages —calculating positive numbers practice sheets R reference numbers —experimenting with —numbers above —nu ...

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