Access to Maths - Softcover

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Sheila Evans is a tutor at Derby University, teaching maths to access students. She has tested much of her material on her students with a good deal of success and understands the challenges presented to this unique group of learners.

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Access to Maths is the only textbook specifically written for adult students studying Mathematics on an Access course or for anyone who would like to achieve a GCSE or an equivalent qualification. It provides a friendly, easy-to-use text, focussing on the four core areas that students are required to cover: number work; handling data; shape, space and measurement; and algebra.

Key features of this book include:

• Relevance: The book is packed with real-life examples that students encounter in their everyday lives from working out how long you need to be on the treadmill to work off a bar of chocolate to the formula for true happiness.
• Differentiation: The book includes techniques such as open-ended questions to cater for a range of abilities, from students who have already achieved a good grade at GCSE but need to refresh their skills to those who go into a cold sweat at the very thought of fractions. 
• Variety of work: Not everybody likes to learn the same way, so this book contains a variety of different learning methods: project work, investigations and group work, as well as questions and examples suitable for self-study or classroom learning.
• Key terms: Mathematical terms can often be a stumbling block to learning.  Throughout this book key terms are clearly highlighted and explained.
• Bringing it all together: At the end of each of the subject areas there is a section devoted to bringing together all of the learnt skills and applying them to a variety of real-life problems.

This book is the book to help you learn and understand Maths and get the best results from your course.

Sheila Evans is a tutor at Derby University, teaching Maths to Access students and supporting students with dyslexia and dyscalculia with the Maths on their degree courses.  This is her second publication.