Let Us Sum It Up: Fun Side of Maths

By Catherine Daniel

Jolene is a working mother of three who loves her kids and wants them to succeed. Her son, Craig, and twins, Rebecca and Isabel, look up to their mother; they want to help her in any way they can. She does her best to make them understand how money works, because she knows thats an important skill to have in life. She sends them to the grocers and on other errands from time to time with a list and a budget, and she encourages them to put what they learn in maths class to good work.

Maths, Jolene knows, can be a challenge for some kids. Textbooks are dry, boring, and more than a bit intimidating, and too many teachers just waffle on and on endlessly about sums and decimals and fractions and integers and quotients and the like without bothering to make it relevant or even interesting to students. But Jolene, like many mums, knows that kids are inherently keen to learn, so she thinks up clever ways to make them love using numbers.

In this new, innovative approach to maths instruction, Catherine Daniel, an experienced accountant and teacher, weaves these lessons into a fictional story format. Now, readers can follow Craig, Rebecca, and Isabel as they learn that mastering numbers just makes life better. Before you know it, youll probably wish Jolene was your own mum and youll find that maths can be fun, easy, and a powerful skill to master!

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Feb 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491749517

Catherine Daniel

Catherine Daniel worked in accounting and sales and has a diploma in teaching. She has shared her love of numbers with countless children. Now retired, she is keen to reach out and inspire others to a new understanding of maths. She is single and lives in England.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-4952-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4917-4951-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014920928

iUniverse rev. date: 2/26/2015

Illustrated by Jean Eamery A. Tuzon

Contents

ACKNOWLODGMENT

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

ACKNOWLODGMENT

I could not have written this book without the love and patience of my family goddaughter her children and friends, with deepest gratitude love and thanks

Thanking the Illustration department Mr Edward Taylor also Ms R Burns in Design of iUniverse

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CHAPTER 1

It is 6.00 am, mum wakes up thinking it is a school week and remembers it is the weekend, "how lovely." She closes the curtain and gets back into bed. Rebecca and Isabel are up and thinking about what to do for the day. They ran into their mum’s room, Good morning mummy.

Girls, I am tired Go back to sleep it is the weekend, let me lay here another hour, "Okay