Summer activities for lower secondary school
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 20x27cm
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9788859042341
Publication date: 01/03/2025
Suitable for: Primary 1st level (ages 6-7)
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Enigmatic Maths 1 is a holiday workbook designed for Year 7 students. This workbook transforms traditional exercises into puzzles, fun challenges, and intriguing stories, showing students that numbers aren’t just formulas — they’re exciting adventures. Each activity leads students towards solving a mystery: who is the great mathematician waiting to be discovered?
The workbook includes over 50 clues, which can be unlocked by solving maths puzzles and challenges. By scanning the QR codes, students can check their answers, access solutions, and uncover new hints.
Section 1 – Numbers
Decimal system
Prime, even, odd, and rectangular numbers
Perfect, amicable, sociable, and twin numbers
Square numbers
Triangular numbers
Properties of triangular numbers
Operations with whole numbers
Operations with even whole numbers
Operations with odd whole numbers
Operations with whole numbers: squares and cubes
Operations with whole numbers in pyramids
Trees and powers
Expressions with whole numbers
Multiples and divisors
Prime factorisation
Highest Common Factor (HCF)
Activities using the Highest Common Factor
Lowest Common Multiple (LCM)
Problems and activities with the Lowest Common Multiple
Prime factorisation; calculating LCM and HCF
Metric system and unit conversions
Multiplication and division by 10, 100, 1000 and by 0.1, 0.01, 0.001
Comparing decimal numbers
Fractions and their representation
Fractions: addition
Fractions: multiplication
Fractions: division
Fractions: powers
Expressions with fractions
Section 2 – Space and Shapes
From battleships to the Cartesian plane
The Cartesian plane and the importance of graphs
Segments and their representation
Comparing segments
Operations with segments
Problems involving segments
Angles and their relationships
Measuring angles with a protractor
Operations with angles
Triangles and fundamental relationships
The triangle inequality
Axes and the circumcentre
Heights and the orthocentre
Each side has its height
Bisectors and the incentre
Medians and the centroid
Triangles and their properties
Quadrilaterals and their properties
Show and prove
Section 3 – Relationships, Data, and Graphical Representations
Relationships on the Cartesian plane
Representing relationships on the Cartesian plane
Ideograms and histograms
From tables to histograms
Italians on holiday
Section 4 – We’re on Holiday… So Let’s Play!
Spot the odd one out
How many triangles and numbers?
Summer activities for lower secondary school
Grazia Cotroni
Turn summer into a learning adventure — without stress!
Unlike traditional summer workbooks, our holiday activity workbooks for lower secondary school students offer a fresh, engaging approach to learning. Each volume blends curriculum-based revision in Mathematics with creative prompts, logic puzzles, and playful challenges, transforming summer study into a game-like experience.
Designed to capture the attention of young readers, these books support content retention while stimulating imagination and critical thinking. If you are seeking innovative, learner-friendly educational resources, these notebooks make learning enjoyable — anytime, anywhere.
THE VOLUMES IN THE SERIES
Enigmatic maths 1
The perfect holiday workbook for first year of lower secondary school (11 years +).
Packed with puzzles, exciting challenges, and gripping stories, this book will show students that numbers are more than just formulas — they're full of adventure! As they solve problems and search for clues, they'll uncover the identity of the great mathematician hidden behind the numbers.
The book is divided into 4 sections:
Section 1 – Numbers, the decimal system, expressions and fractions
Section 2 – Shapes and space
Section 3 – Relationships, data and graphical representations
Section 4 – Games with triangles and numbers
Enigmatic maths 2
The ideal holiday workbook for second year of lower secondary school (12 years +).
Enigmatic Maths is the ultimate companion, guiding students through a world of brain teasers, logic challenges, and engaging tales. But it’s not just about numbers — there’s a mystery to solve and a brilliant mathematician waiting to be revealed, hidden within the pages
The book is divided into 4 sections:
Section 1 – Numbers, fractions, percentages and proportions
Section 2 – Shapes and space
Section 3 – Relationships, data and graphical representations
Section 4 – Games with shapes, words and GeoGebra