Includes bibliographical references (page 251).

This and that make ten : number bond operations

The real deal : numbers, digits and numerals

1, 2, 3, lots : the purpose and scope of numbers

Two square thoughts : the nature of numbers

Base jumping : the decimal system and its alternatives

A jump to the left ... and a step to the right : place value

A plus point : addition and the beginning of mathematics

Don't drag the tables : rote learning

The cocky chicken : mathematical knowledge and logic

Square are they? : Shapes and definitions

Prime innit, sir : prime numbers

Arch angles : geometry in art

Less to square : square numbers

The land is my land : area

Zero the hero : the history and development of our number system

Squintasticadillion and one : high numbers and the invention of numerical terms

Beauty secrets : the golden section in art and nature

A bit more than three : pi, and the perimeter and area of circle

Inbetweeny bits : the concept of fractions

Half to you : fractions in everyday language

Action fractions : the practical application of fractions

Go compare : percentage

Your average number : averages - mode, median and mean

Our street : geometry in the built environment

Sets education : sets and the individual's number line

Stairs into space : estimating, reasoning and dividing

Bone setting : algebra

Voyager : maths as universal truth