Maths for everyone! 1

Planning a surprise party

Anna Contardi, Flavia Caretto, Carlo Scataglini

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Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 21x29,7cm

Pages: 64

ISBN: 9788859041399

Publication date: 01/09/2025

Suitable for: Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)

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An activity book designed to introduce lower secondary school students to maths through a real-life, engaging and fun experience: organising a surprise party.

Through a narrative that unfolds page after page, students are guided into the world of maths applied to everyday situations: making a guest list, planning the budget, calculating costs, dividing participation fees, and measuring the space to decorate the venue. Each task presents a practical challenge, with clear instructions, simple visuals, and handy tools to cut out from the appendices.

Maths for everyone!

Not your usual workbook — Maths for Everyone! is an educational adventure designed to bring students closer to mathematics through a hands-on, engaging, and surprisingly fun experience. Through a story that unfolds page after page, boys and girls are guided into the world of maths as it applies to real life. Each activity presents a practical challenge, with clear instructions, simple illustrations, and useful cut-out materials included in the attachments. The workbook is carefully structured to support learning: on the left-hand page, students find the context and project phase; on the right-hand page, practical exercises related to the mathematical content (operations, fractions, decimals). The path is guided and progressive, helping children build confidence and independence step by step.

THE VOLUME

MATHS FOR EVERYONE! 1

Planning a surprise party The adventure begins with a special mission: organising a surprise party for Giulio and Rebecca, together with Amina, Sasha, Susanna, and Mattia. Between calculations and creativity, every activity is designed to make maths useful, concrete, and accessible to everyone — revealing, with a touch of surprise, that maths really is everywhere! Find out more!

Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

THE AUTHORS

Flavia Caretto, President of CulturAutismo, the first Italian advocacy association of Autism professionals. Anna Contardi, social worker and adult educator, was National Coordinator of AIPD (Italian Association for People with Down Syndrome) until 2022, where she was involved in consultancy, training, and project development. Carlo Scataglini, special needs teacher in L’Aquila, is a trainer specialising in strategies for facilitating and simplifying subject content.

Thematic Areas

Mathematics > Numbers and calculation
Mathematics