Author(s): Maz Hermon

STEMM

This book has black and white pages. It's not precious. Kids can have fun with it. Draw on this book. Colour in some pictures. Make it yours. Rip a page out and stick it on your wall.

Good foundations

Mazmatics is an activity book and learning resource that helps to make math fun and useful for kids and early learners of all ages. It’s pitched at kids around 7-12+ depending on the kids experience, but we think kids and the young at heart of all ages will enjoy working on their fundamentals with this book. Who doesn't love a good poop emoji?!

Vol 1 covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, with some fractions included.

We all need good fundamentals before we can enjoy the next level of ideas and equations. This book is to be used alongside other math learning, not to replace it. Kids should listen to their teachers. This book gives them more chance to practise what they’re already learning.

How do you get good at playing the guitar or dancing or sports? You have to practise your skills in order to improve. So if you want to get better at math and make it something you can enjoy, how are you going to get better? You got it.

We need to practise our math if we want it to be something we can do and enjoy over our lifetime.

So what’s going to make practising math seem like a good idea for kids?

We think that by making things more fun and relatable, kids might actually want to practise more and more, especially if we can show how math really is useful in daily life, outside of the classroom. We’re also thinking that an option to get out the old pencils and paper means this book can be used in many situations and brings things back to basics, no batteries required.

Mazmatics, for home play, not homework.