With everything tailored to suit young people who think and learn differently, this GCSE maths study guide has all you need to improve your maths skills…and maybe even learn to love maths! I was hoping to find some exam advice on adapting the use of Napier’s bones or perhaps something I hadn’t thought of other than scribbling out my timestables on a piece of squared paper and surreptitiously folding it over. Teaching would be very simple if every child in the class were identical in every respect, but they are not and that is what makes teaching so challenging and, ultimately, so rewarding.

We really need to kick that notion into the long grass and have these simple manipulatives available for all children, all the time. Since she has trouble with decimals, fractions, and percentages, I had my TA read through that section of the book.

The focus on readers learning how and why a method works and the positive 'can do' attitude that permeates the whole text make the book an absolute boon to anyone who feels that maths is not for them. The author of this book has collated the strategies for teaching that are particularly suited to the needs of neurodiverse students, and they have presented it in this volume. I could get on board with this chapter, the grid method is common, easily used wherever I am (even if my hand drawn grids look a little tipsy) and quite simply, simple. I highly recommend this comprehensive book for every neurodiverse learner working towards GCSE Maths. Students are given a better chance of grasping the material that is being presented thanks to the use of visual aids and activities that require them to use multi-sensory approaches.

In my early days as a teacher, I very naively thought that every child saw maths in the same way that I did. Potentially more useful for teachers (and parents) looking for ways to teach, than for the students themselves. Addressed to the learner, it also contains approaches for specific key topics, meaning learners can dip into the sections as they need to support their learning.With everything tailored to suit young people who think and learn differently, this GCSE maths study guide has all you need to improve your maths skills.