Mental Maths

New Wave Mental Maths is a best-selling series written to consolidate students’ mathematical understanding through comprehensive and structured daily mental maths practice. The series supports learning for curricula across Australia, and has been revised to meet the proficiencies of the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0, covering Understanding, Fluency, Problem-solving, and Reasoning.

The seven workbooks are designed to ensure students:

practise mental calculation concepts and skills across all strands
consolidate their understanding of mathematical topics and vocabulary
reinforce their learning through self-guided revision of pre-taught concepts.
New to this edition is the ‘Strand Activity’ section, which provides students the space to apply critical thinking and inquiry skills to worded problems or activities, such as games. Designed for flexible use in the classroom, these colour-coded questions link to the curriculum strands: blue for Number, purple for Algebra, green for Measurement, orange for Space, and red for Statistics.

The ‘Maths Facts’, located at the back of each workbook, support student learning through visual representation of mathematical concepts.

The goal of this series is to encourage students to practise mental calculations every day, supporting their future in a world that is full of maths.

Book A features:
First revision in a long time.
A day per page, with between 2-7 questions per day and lots of clean space.
Lots of supportive and engaging artwork, including authentic Aboriginal artwork created by Melinda Brown.
Question 1 of each week builds supplementary number knowledge and improves motor skills with tracing and saying. This encourages regular practice and the reinforcement that supports the student in feeling confident in counting forward and backwards in 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s.
Real-world topics are scattered throughout for continuous practice from a young age; these include season knowledge, months, time and money. Having these questions throughout the book provides opportunities for the teacher to expand on these topics and to support students with a life of maths.
Fun games are included as well as some inquiry and practical activities such as using modelling clay, pebbles, pop sticks and playing cards.

New Wave Mental Maths is a best-selling series written to consolidate students’ mathematical understanding through comprehensive and structured daily mental maths practice. The series supports learning for curricula across Australia, and has been revised to meet the proficiencies of the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0, covering Understanding, Fluency, Problem-solving, and Reasoning.

The seven workbooks are designed to ensure students:

practise mental calculation concepts and skills across all strands
consolidate their understanding of mathematical topics and vocabulary
reinforce their learning through self-guided revision of pre-taught concepts.
New to this edition is the ‘Weekly Focus’, which highlights a key topic covered throughout the week’s learning, offering an ideal opportunity for class discussion. Additionally, the updated ‘Problem-solving’ column provides students the space to apply critical thinking and inquiry skills to in-depth problems.

The ‘Friday Review’ consolidates the week’s learning with colour-coded questions representing the curriculum strands: blue for Number, purple for Algebra, green for Measurement, orange for Space, red for Statistics, and black for Probability. Designed to be flexible, educators may choose to use the ‘Friday Review’ as a pre- or post-assessment, or to allow students to self-assess and monitor their own progress.

The ‘Maths Facts’, located at the back of each workbook, support student learning through visual representation of mathematical concepts.

The goal of this series is to encourage students to practise mental calculations every day, supporting their future in a world that is full of maths.

Book D features:
Two columns to a page, with 15 questions per column and 18 colour-coded stranded questions for Friday Review (across two narrow columns.)
Focuses on engagement through repeated questions in varying formats, building on independent working out towards the end of the book.
Lots of supportive and engaging artwork, including authentic Aboriginal artwork created by Melinda Brown.
Problem-solving format jumps to a more detailed format to further encourage inquiry and strategy usage.

Make mental maths practice the highlight of every day with New wave mental maths! The perfect tool to consolidate and reinforce student learning, this fantastic series has been comprehensively revised to take into account the requirements of the Australian Curriculum. With fun and colourfully illustrated daily questions to complete as well as dedicated problem-solving questions for Monday to Thursday, this resource is the ideal platform for the development of mental skills and mathematical concepts.

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Revised edition, released October 2017 features:

• a structured daily mental maths program for the whole school year
• coverage of all strand and content descriptions applicable to mental maths
• daily problem-solving questions covering all three strands incorporate real-life maths contexts and situations
• increases students’ understanding, knowledge, reasoning, problem-solving, fluency and the application of their learning
• provides a variety of mental problems in a number of contexts in all Australian Curriculum Mathematics strands
• includes teacher assessments of students’ learning progress by separating the maths strands in the Friday review
• focuses on accuracy and fluency in basic computational skills
• sequential development of mathematical concepts and vocabulary, and opportunities for weekly assessment and monitoring of student progress with the Friday review
• comprehensive coverage and consolidation of mental mathematics concepts
• uses visualisation to enhance learning
• uses real-world maths application of knowledge and reasoning
• has attention-grabbing graphics that make maths fun
• Friday review now easier to access with questions colour-coded for each strand. Great for the student and great for teacher marking and evaluating the student’s knowledge
• Daily problem-solving questions covering all three Australian Curriculum Mathematics strands
• Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability
• STEM mathematical context
• Differentiation
• daily revision of already-taught maths concepts