A new title in the successful "Starting off with" series. This series is aimed at giving children aged 4 upwards a head start in maths. The full colour artwork supports and explains the text as well being entertaining and motivating. A wide variety of activities gives opportunities for lots ofpractice in new skills. The books tie in closely with the Numeracy Strategy in the UK.Using descriptive artwork, "Starting off with Measuring" introduces length, height and width, distances, weight, and capacity and the ways we measure them. It also includes an historical look at the ways measurements were taken.Each title contains a word bank of key mathematical terms. Approved by educational and numeracy advisors.Peter Patilla is an infant maths specialist and is the author of all the titles in the series. Liz Pichon is an established picture book artist and is the illustrator of the other titles in the series.