Mathematics & numeracy

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Book Cover:  Mathematics Minus Fear
By Lawrence Potter

'If you follow this eloquently written book you will be equipped to cope with all manner of challenges, such as splitting a restaurant bill, filling in a tax return, or understanding the compound interest on your bank statement'
Daily Telegraph

How can maths help you win on the horses?
What's the foolproof way to solve Sudoku?
How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian...

'If you follow this eloquently written book you will be equipped to cope with all manner of challenges, such as splitting a restaurant bill, filling in a tax return, or understanding the compound interest...

Published: 29/07/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846144400
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Times Tables Book
By Dorling Kindersley

Hints, tips and tricks to learning times tables.

If your child finds times tables a little testing then here's the answer: straightforward, easy-to-follow tips, hints and advice that will help them remember their tables for ever. There are fun illustrations, shortcuts, clever ways to make some of the harder times tables simpler to learn (and even some harmless cheats that their teacher will approve...

Hints, tips and tricks to learning times tables.

If your child finds times tables a little testing then here's the answer: straightforward, easy-to-follow tips, hints and advice that will help them remember...

Published: 31/05/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781740337687
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Australian Maths Dictionary
By Klerk Judith De

Make maths as easy as 1 2 3.

Does your child find maths tricky? Are they stuck on their square roots or puzzled by prime numbers? Help is at instant hand with this essential maths explainer, adapted for Australian students.

It's packed with hundreds of mathematical entries covering words, phrases, shapes, measurements, concepts, calculations and much more, making everything easy to understand.

Perfect...





Make maths as easy as 1 2 3.

Does your child find maths tricky? Are they stuck on their square roots or puzzled by prime numbers? Help is at instant hand with this essential maths explainer, adapted for...

Published: 01/02/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740337571
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Times Tables Made Easy Kit
By Dorling Kindersley
Following on from the English Made Easy and Maths Made Easy series, the Times Tables Made Easy kit teaches multiplication skills in practical and fun ways.

It enables children to practise school maths at home – either working on their own or with a parent – and improve mathematical skills.

The kit contains five different ways to learn – Say-along CD, Times Tables Fridge Magnets, Hidden...

Following on from the English Made Easy and Maths Made Easy series, the Times Tables Made Easy kit teaches multiplication skills in practical and fun ways.

It enables children to practise school maths...

Published: 03/07/2006
Format: Box
ISBN: 9781740335546
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Maths Made Easy: Adding & Taking Away Beginners Lvl
By Dorling Kindersley
This book encourtages children to understand that adding means 'more than' and taking away means 'fewer than', as well as the '+' and '-' symbols.
This book encourtages children to understand that adding means 'more than' and taking away means 'fewer than', as well as the '+' and '-' symbols.
Published: 16/12/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740334679
RRP: $8.95
Book Cover:  Maths Made Easy: Year 2
By Dorling Kindersley
This book helps your child with problem solving and the use of tables, grids, and diagrams.
This book helps your child with problem solving and the use of tables, grids, and diagrams.
Published: 16/12/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740334723
RRP: $8.95
Book Cover:  Maths Made Easy: Year 4
By Dorling Kindersley
This book features practice on percentages, the mean, median, and mode numbers, and work on plotting co-ordinates on a grid.
This book features practice on percentages, the mean, median, and mode numbers, and work on plotting co-ordinates on a grid.
Published: 16/12/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740334778
RRP: $8.95
Book Cover:  Maths Made Easy: Times Tables Years 3 & 4
By Dorling Kindersley
This book provides your child with lots of multiplication practice using the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 times tables. It also contains work on division.
This book provides your child with lots of multiplication practice using the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 times tables. It also contains work on division.
Published: 16/12/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740334785
RRP: $8.95
Book Cover:  Maths Made Easy: Year 5
By Dorling Kindersley
This book contains lots of practice on fractions and decimals, plus help with frequency tables and rotational symmetry.
This book contains lots of practice on fractions and decimals, plus help with frequency tables and rotational symmetry.
Published: 16/12/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740334792
RRP: $8.95
Book Cover:  Maths Made Easy: Times Tables Years 5 & 6
By Dorling Kindersley
This book helps children learn times tables using practice grids, work on division, and 'Have a go' sheets that build confidence and speed.
This book helps children learn times tables using practice grids, work on division, and 'Have a go' sheets that build confidence and speed.
Published: 16/12/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740334846
RRP: $8.95
Book Cover:  Maths Made Easy: Decimals Year 6
By Dorling Kindersley
This book extends children's ability with decimals. It helps them estimate, convert weights and measures, and change fractions to decimals.
This book extends children's ability with decimals. It helps them estimate, convert weights and measures, and change fractions to decimals.
Published: 16/12/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740334853
RRP: $8.95
Book Cover:  Train Your Brain to be a Maths Genius: Your Brilliant Brain and How to  Train It
By Dorling Kindersley

Make your brain a maths brain

Packed with things to do, Train Your Brain to be a Maths Genius, will help you calculate equations that will make your knees tremble, it will make fretting about fractions a thing of the past, and best of all - it's great fun!



Make your brain a maths brain

Packed with things to do, Train Your Brain to be a Maths Genius, will help you calculate equations that will make your knees tremble, it will make fretting about fractions...

Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781409384021
RRP: $19.99
Book Cover:  Homework Helpers: Adding Up Sticker Book
By Ladybird

Ladybird Homework Helpers are fun, bright activity books with content that supports the work taught in schools.

The Ladybird Adding Up Homework Helper is in line with the Primary Framework for Maths in Key Stage 1, and is perfect for helping your schoolage child to learn and practise the basic principles of addition in a fun, motivating way.

Ladybird Homework Helpers are fun, bright activity books with content that supports the work taught in schools.

The Ladybird Adding Up Homework Helper is in line with the Primary Framework for Maths in...

Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781409305675
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Homework Helpers: Taking Away Sticker Book
By Ladybird

Ladybird Homework Helpers are fun, bright activity books with content that supports the work taught in schools.

The Ladybird Taking Away Homework Helper is in line with the Primary Framework for Maths in Key Stage 1, and is perfect for helping your schoolage child to learn and practise the basic principles of subtraction in a fun, motivating way.

Ladybird Homework Helpers are fun, bright activity books with content that supports the work taught in schools.

The Ladybird Taking Away Homework Helper is in line with the Primary Framework for Maths...

Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781409305682
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Carol Vorderman's Times Tables Made Easy
By Vorderman & Carol

Five ways to learn = 5 x the fun with maths expert Carol Vorderman

Carol Vorderman's Times Tables Made Easy shows how rhymes, repetition and writing can help you master your times tables. Perfect for practising at home to improve your maths skills, you'll soon discover how getting to grips with your tables can be easy and fun.
Each Times Table kit contains:
Hidden answers game - test your tables...



Five ways to learn = 5 x the fun with maths expert Carol Vorderman

Carol Vorderman's Times Tables Made Easy shows how rhymes, repetition and writing can help you master your times tables. Perfect for practising...

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405394673
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Think of a Number
By Johnny Ball

Join TV Presenter, Johnny Ball for an incredible number-filled adventure,
cracking secret codes and unravelling mazes – now in paperback.

Let your child join Johnny Ball on a dazzling maths adventure to infinity and
beyond.They'll find out maths isn't just about sums and calculations, but
how numbers can take them anywhere!

Watch as they learn to test their friends with magic tricks, discover...



Join TV Presenter, Johnny Ball for an incredible number-filled adventure,
cracking secret codes and unravelling mazes – now in paperback.

Let your child join Johnny Ball on a dazzling maths adventure...

Published: 28/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405358026
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Time: Lift the Flap
By Dorling Kindersley
DK Lift-the-flap is an exciting new series of fun picture and word books. Young children will love looking at the brightly coloured photographs and lifting the flaps to reveal hidden surprises!
DK Lift-the-flap is an exciting new series of fun picture and word books. Young children will love looking at the brightly coloured photographs and lifting the flaps to reveal hidden surprises!
Published: 16/10/2002
Format: Board Book
ISBN: 9780751339567
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Maths Doesn't Suck
By Danica McKellar

This one-of-a-kind guide is guaranteed to make KS2 and KS3 maths a breeze!

Do you dread maths homework?
Panic at the thought of a test?
Does maths bore you to tears?
Don't worry – help is here!

Actress and mathematician Danica McKellar's bestselling guide proves that maths can be easy, relevant and even cool, and gives you all the tools you need to ace your next test. With Danica as your personal...



This one-of-a-kind guide is guaranteed to make KS2 and KS3 maths a breeze!

Do you dread maths homework?
Panic at the thought of a test?
Does maths bore you to tears?
Don't worry – help is here!

Actress...



Published: 12/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141049458
RRP: $32.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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