This series aims to give children aged five and above a head start in early maths. The colour artwork supports and explains the text, offering a variety of activites to practice new skills. The content ties in with the Numeracy Strategy and covers basic mental arithmetic.

"Starting Off with..." is a brand new series written to give children aged 5 and upwards a head start in early maths. The full colour artwork supports and explains the text as well as being entertaining and motivating. A wide variety of activities gives opportunity for lots of practice in new skills. The content of each book ties in closely with the Numeracy Strategy in the UK. Each title includes a word bank of key mathematical terms. Approved by educational and numeracy advisors. Peter Patilla is an infant maths specialist and an established OUP author on the "At Home With" series and the "My First Book of" series, illustrated by Julie Park. Liz Pichon is an established picture book artist who has published extensively with Walker Books, Transworld, Hodder, the Early Learning Centre, David Bennett, Random House, Ladybird, and other major publishing houses. This is Liz Pichon's first project with OUP.

A new title in the "Starting Off With" series. This series is aimed at giving children aged five upwards a head start in maths. The full colour artwork supports and explains the text as well being entertaining and motivating. A wide variety of activities gives opportunities for lots of practice in new skills. The books tie in closely with the Numeracy Strategy in the UK. This book finds a straightforward way to explain these tricky mathematical functions. Building on knowledge of addition and subtraction, the text shows clearly how numbers work together. Each title contains a word bank of key mathematical terms and is approved by educational and numeracy advisors.

Starting Off with Time

by Peter Patilla

Published 1 October 2000
The "Starting Off With..." series is intended to give children aged five and upwards a head start in early maths. The full colour artwork supports and explains the text as well as being entertaining and motivating. A wide variety of activities gives opportunity for lots of practice in new skills. The content of each book ties in closely with the Numeracy Strategy in the UK. In addition to detailed information about telling the time, this book gives a strong sense of daily routine linked to the time of day, and the regular pattern of days, weeks, months of the year and the seasons. It also introduces the concept of a timetable linked to the clock, and shows how events can be planned and marked on a calendar or in a diary. Each title includes a word bank of key mathematical terms.

Starting Off with Shapes

by Peter Patilla

Published 1 September 2000
"Starting Off with..." is a brand new series written to give children aged 5 and upwards a head start in early maths. The full colour artwork supports and explains the text as well as being entertaining and motivating. A wide variety of activities gives opportunity for lots of practice in new skills. The content of each book ties in closely with the Numeracy Strategy in the UK. Wonderfully supported by colour artwork, Starting Off with Shapes names and explains all the most important 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes, pointing out how they are constructed from sides, faces angles, right angles and bases. Each title includes a word bank of key mathematical terms. Approved by educational and numeracy advisors. Peter Patilla is an infant maths specialist and an established OUP author on the "At Home With" series and the "My First Book of" series, illustrated by Julie Park. Liz Pichon is an established picture book artist who has published extensively with Walker Books, Transworld, Hodder, the Early Learning Centre, David Bennett, Random House, Ladybird, and other major publishing houses. This is Liz Pichon's first project with OUP.

A new title in the "Starting Off With" series, which is aimed at giving children aged 4 upwards a head start in maths, this title uses descriptive artwork to introduce length, height and width, distances, weight, and capacity and the ways we measure them. A wide variety of activities gives opportunities for lots of practice in new skills. The books tie in closely with the Numeracy Strategy in the UK. It also includes an historical look at the ways measurements were taken. Each title contains a word bank of key mathematical terms.