The Book People are selling this First Illustrated Maths Dictionary for £3.99, rather than its original list price of £9.99 - my maths skills tell me that's a £6 saving.

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I'm one of the few people I know who openly admits to loving numbers!  I love sorting out my household budget, I love keeping tabs on investment performance, I love working out tax calculations (that makes sense I suppose, I did work for HMRC many years ago!) and I think it's a shame when people get utterly frozen when it comes to sums and anything numerical.

This First Illustrated Maths Dictionary looks just the job for building number confidence in youngsters and setting them on the path to mathematical greatness - okay, maybe not mathematical greatness (although you never know!) but at least they won't want to run for the hills or hide under the desk whenever it's time to start solving some maths problems.

It features bright and lively illustrations and contains details of websites that children can visit to practice their new-found maths skills; awesome!

If this is all you buy from The Book People today then a £1.95 single item delivery charge will apply.

Happy adding and subtracting!

Ever find yourself telling people that you're just not good at maths? That maths isn't your strong point? That you just don't get numbers? Well if you've got a child at primary school, you're in a for a bit of a surprise.

The old way of teaching maths at school was designed to produce legions of literate clerks to keep the books for the Empire. We don't need people to do that anymore. We have calculators, and spreadsheet programs on computers.

So the focus instead is now on helping children understand maths, and discover all the systems and patterns that can be found in the wonderful world of mathematics. This in turn will mean that later on they'll find concepts such as algebra relatively easy.

So as a parent, you're going to need to get to grips with all this new stuff too. And it doesn't mean you have to spend a lot of money on educational programs or resources. There are a few simple, cheap or free ways you can help your child become numerate.