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1. HOLISTIC MATHS
Course overview, history of our number system.
10-point circle, completing 10s, addition
Mental addition from left to right
2. COMPLETING THE WHOLE
Early history of VM.
Looking for 10s in addition, including adding columns
Using addition and subtraction together
3. DOUBLING AND HALVING
Number splitting: doubling and repeated doubling.
Halving and repeated halving
4. CREATIVE MATHS
Improvising and extending the multiplication tables
Multiplying and Dividing by 5, 50, 25
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5. A MAGIC NUMBER
Digit sums, 9-point circle, casting out nines
Digit sum puzzles and divisibility by 3,9,6,15
6. CHECKING IT OUT
Checking with digit sums
Checking with first and last figures
The Vedic Square
7. THE INVISIBLE NUMBER
Calculating left to right
Doubling & halving
Finger maths
8. SUBTRACTION
Recent history. Subtraction-left to right
Checking subtractions
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9. MENTAL MATHS
Consolidating mental maths
The number 37 and its uses
10. ALL FROM 9 AND THE LAST FROM 10
Subtraction using All from 9, Last from 10
Bar numbers
11. THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING
Using bar numbers for subtraction
Number splitting for the four operations
12. ANOTHER MAGIC NUMBER
Multiplication by 11
Divisibility by 11 and a ‘digit sum’ check
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13. COHERENT MATHS
General multiplication and reversing it
Algebraic multiplication and its reverse
14. MATHEMAGICS
Multiplying numbers near 100
Proofs
15. NUMBER PATTERNS
Using Proportion to extend base multiplication
Multiplying near base 10, and multiples of 10
16. THINK OF A NUMBER
Use of transposition in solving word puzzles
Solving equations
Combining/comparing fractions




