My Cat Hates Maths

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Jack has a problem... He is struggling with maths in school and falling behind - and he is getting no assistance from his cat, Maisie! But help is at hand, and gradually, with help from his tutor, Mr. Prentice - who is full of top tips and bad jokes - he comes to terms with some of the basic concepts relating to Number Skills.My Cat Hates Maths is a quirky, off-the-wall maths book, incorporating a fun, illustrated narrative that will appeal to pupils in Key Stages One and Two. Jack learns to conquer tables, operations, factors, decimals, fractions and percentages, as well as everything else to do with Number Skills, such as square and cube numbers, rounding and estimating, negative numbers and sequences - all the fundamental skills necessary to understand maths when he moves on to a higher level.It all started when I got the results of my latest maths test. Mr Campbell gave out everybody else’s exercise books, and then, finally he came to my desk... Then he gave me my book! My results weren’t quite as good as the others... In fact, they were much, much worse! He must have done it for a reason because he glared right at me as he placed my book on my desk, open on the page where all my mistakes were... And he was scowling at me...! My heart dropped! Two out of ten! Just two...? That can’t be right...!