Books

Most assessment books are functional. They have many excellent questions which look exactly like what you will find in tests and exams – which are great, except that it doesn’t interest the kids. Parents and teachers find them very useful, but struggle to get kids to work on them.

When I was tasked to rewrite the once popular “Solve Challenging Maths Problems with Ease”, my co-author Winston Lin and I decided that we want to make this book interesting to kids, as well as useful to parents and teachers.

Kids-friendly, intuitive introduction to each concept

We want to bust the myth that problem solving techniques are complicated and hard to understand, so we introduce each concept with a simple, everyday story. We want to point out to our readers that all the concepts in this books are intuitive – they are, knowingly or unknowingly, already using them in their daily lives.

We have also included some keywords tips to help reader identify concept in a problem sum.

example followed by immediate application

We teach each method with examples rather than long theoretical discussions, as children learn best that way. After an example, there is always a highly similar question in the “Try it yourself” section to allow readers to test their understanding.

Higher order practice questions for in-depth learning

At the end of every chapter, there are 8 Practice Questions and 8 Higher-Order Practice Questions. There are plenty of practice for learners with varying abilities.