Natural Maths Strategies for Parents

Responding to Parent Power

The idea for this series started at a parent's evening at Milton State School, Brisbane, where Ann and Johnny were discussing the mental computation strategies that have become a central component of the Australian Maths Curriculum. It was the parents who suggested that they would find it helpful to have a reference point so that they could become fully involved in supporting their children in learning maths. Since then, many schools have not only made the NMS for Parents a book that they recommend to parents, it has also become a resource for teachers who find the simple explanations and example activities just the thing to stimulate mathematical thinking in their classroom.

We've linked in samples pages from Book 1 and Book 2
so that you can get a feel for the approach that we've taken.

Both books in the series explain the key mental computation strategies, show their methods of representation and suggest activities that parents can share with their child. We are sure that the series will be of great interest to all parents who want to understand what's new in maths teaching.

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We are also interested in schools using the series to introduce parents to the new strategies, representations and, most importantly, language that surrounds our push towards improving children's mental computation.

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