Primary Mathematics

This book focuses on primary school mathematics for students, whether children or adults. It is assumed that no calculators are used, to encourage mental arithmetic. A parallel project at Wikiversity is underway to provide teaching tools to parents and educators, whether in traditional or home-schooling environments, at Primary School Mathematics.

• General Overview of the Teaching of Mathematics

Getting started

• Numbers
• Adding numbers
• Subtracting numbers
• Multiplying numbers
• Dividing numbers
• Prime numbers
• Factors and Primes
• Method for Factoring
• Negative numbers
• Fractions (rational numbers)
• Working with fractions
• Decimals
• Percentages
• Metric system
• Time expressions
• Unit expressions
• Introduction to significant digits
• Powers, roots, and exponents
• Scientific and engineering notation
• Average, median, and mode
• Probability

Further reading

• Algebra