Overview
Walker Maths Essentials is a series of workbooks for teachers to build courses appropriate to their students. In this way, students get resources pitched at the right level, to support their individual learning as they strengthen their skills in a particular strand. Each strand is supported by a set of four workbooks graded by curriculum level.
The well-designed, write-on workbooks contain teaching material, worked examples, carefully graded practice exercises, puzzles and challenges for those needing extension. Two comprehensive “test yourself” quizzes are provided at the end of each book.
We have taken all your favourite elements of the Senior Walker Maths series and incorporated them in to Walker Maths Essentials.
Digital Teacher Resources are available across all Walker Maths Essentials titles for teachers that adopt the corresponding workbooks. Each digital resource includes a Walker Maths Essentials projection file and Answers. Please contact your Learning Consultant for more details or email nz.sales@cengage.com
Glossary
The language of measurement
Measuring devices
Units
Abbreviations (shortened versions) for units
Length
Mass
Capacity (volume)
Word questions
Non-metric units
Scales
Reading scales
Perimeter
Shapes with linear sides
Circles
Challenge 1
Compound shapes
Challenge 2
Area
Units of area
Quadrilaterals
Triangles
Challenge 3
Circles
Compound shapes
Shapes with holes
Challenge 5
Surface area
Word questions
Investigation
Volume
Units of volume
Prisms
Cuboids
Compound cuboids
Triangular prisms
Other prisms
Cylinders
Cones and pyramids
Spheres
Word questions
Investigation: surface area to volume ratio
Challenge 6
Revision 1
Revision 2
Answers
Charlotte has over 10 years’ experience in teaching Mathematics, the majority of this as Assistant HOD of Mathematics and Dean of Year 9 at Darfield High School. She has also undertaken a year at St Margaret’s – a high decile, girls’ school. Here she focused on teaching the junior levels (including Year 7 and 8).
Victoria has twenty years’ experience in teaching Mathematics and has recently retired as Teacher of Mathematics and Specialist Classroom Teacher at Riccarton High School. She has received a Jim Campbell award for teaching excellence (2003) and an Ernest Duncan award in Mathematics (2007).