In their first, bestselling, book Maths for Mums and Dads Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew helped you and your child make sense of the new methods and topics covered in primary school maths.But as your child embarks on secondary school, two new issues arise. First, in the build-up to GCSE, school children begin to do maths that you probably have never encountered before - or if you have, you never really got it in the first place, and have long since forgotten. Factorising? Finding the locus?Solving for x? Probability distributions? What do these even mean?And there's another problem, too. As your child becomes a teenager, two dreaded questions increasingly loom- when will I ever need this? And even worse- who cares?

Author Biography

Rob Eastaway is one of the UK's leading popularisers of maths and author of books including the best-selling Why Do Buses Come in Threes? and How Many Socks Make a Pair?. He gives maths talks across the UK to audiences of all ages, and is regularly to be heard on BBC Radio talking about the maths of everyday life.Mike Askew taught for several years in primary schools in London before moving to work in teacher education. He was Professor of Maths Education at King's College London and is now Professor of Maths Education at Melbourne University, Australia.