The Mathsketeers – A Mental Maths Adventure

A Key Stage 2 Home Learning Resource

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Imprint: Buster Books

Publication date: 07/07/2022

ISBN: 9781780557458

Age: 7-9 years

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Activity & Puzzles

Binding: Paperback

Size: 297 x 210 mm

Extent: 32 pages

Illustration: Colour

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

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Summary:

Addio is a young noblemouse looking for a mental-maths adventure. Help him as he joins Subtracto, Multiplus and Diviso, the Mathsketeers, as they team up to protect the mouse king. Follow the trail of maths puzzles using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, to defeat their feline nemesis, Count Catulus.

It's up to the reader to join the adventure, follow the narrative and work out the answer to each fiendish problem. There are lots of mental-maths activities that will test children's numeracy skills, answers to fill in, as well as helpful tips and tricks to learn along the way.

Maths content includes:

- Introduction to simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, gradually increasing in scope and difficulty

- Partitioning numbers, adding and subtracting money, tricky three-digit sums, fractions

- Multiplication tables, division practice, inverse operations, arrays and much more

Get ready for a swashbuckling maths adventure.

Sales points:

  • A maths resource with core skills from the Key Stage 2 curriculum. Starting with simpler maths for 7–8 year olds, the title will increase in difficulty, to consolidate the maths skills of confident 9-year-olds

  • A fun narrative running through the entire book. Children can follow Addio's journey from wannabe Mathsketeer to fully-fledged maths hero

  • Characterful and fun colour illustrations throughout the title

About the Illustrator:

John Bigwood

John Bigwood is an illustrator and graphic designer based in London. He has worked across a range of books for children and adults, such as the best-selling Sherlock Bones series and How to Draw People for the Artistically Anxious.

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