Excel Basic Skills: Multiplication and Division Year 5&ndash ;6 is designed to make students feel confident in the basic processes of multiplication and division of whole numbers. It will help to satisfy t he needs of slow learners, and provide enrichment opportunity for quicke r learners.

Mathematics is a highly important subject in our scho ol syllabus. It is the study of numbers - which surround us everywhere i n our lives. Although computers and calculators have become the order of the day and are quite handy, the human mind controls it all. Whatever w e put into the mind during the initial stages and the formative years of the child is extremely important and most significant for the years to come.

This book revises the core concepts involved in division an d multiplication, and then applies these skills to larger numbers. On co mpletion of this book, students should be confident in short and long di vision and multiplication, place value trading, square numbers and order of operations.

The important features of this book are:

• eight self-contained, carefully graded units
• hundreds of p ractice exercises
• quick questions and revision pages to stay in touch with previous work
• diagnostic and mastery tests to measu re student's knowledge
• a lift-out answer section