Life is too short
to be short of money
Maths is increasingly important in the modern world.
The MONEY STUFF Teach-yourself maths course is online, FREE and doesn’t need a teacher.
This tested and proven Math Course links Maths to money to help people in real life. It was designed for girls who don’t like maths but actually it is suitable for anyone of any age, especially anyone who lacks confidence and is anxious about Maths. It can be used on any tablet or computer and can also be individually printed.
Up to 15% of people in the UK are dyslexic. MONEY STUFF has been specifically designed so that dyslexics can read it easily. The entire computer production team was dyslexic.
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MONEY STUFF is a simple, do-it-yourself, 6-step maths Course that shows you how to get richer and stay richer.
In today’s complex world you need to understand maths to manage your money. That way you’ll have more to spend on the things that really matter to you.
If You Think You Can't do Maths
- then you were not taught at the right speed for you or...
- you were not taught in the right way for you or…
- you were not taught thoroughly or…
- you were not taught by a good communicator or…
- you had a bad maths book or…
- somebody told you that you were bad at maths
In short, with MONEY STUFF
- You will have more money
- You will understand money
- Money anxiety disappears
- And your money will go further
- Many babies are born with different sorts of learning difficulties
- Dyslexics have difficulty reading and spelling words
- Up to 15% of people in the UK are dyslexic
- MONEY STUFF has been specifically designed so that dyslexics can read it easily
- The entire computer production team of MONEY STUFF was dyslexic
Many dyslexics have visual and creative skills that other people don’t have – for problem-solving, inventiveness and design.
Many people in my family – the Conrans – are dyslexic but successful in different ways.
Sir Terence Conran designed interiors of hotels, airports and shops; he produced furniture, fabrics, china and glass for homes; he created cafes and glamorous restaurants. He also wrote books ! Terence never finished university.
Our son, Professor Sebastian Conran could not read until he was 8 years old; now he is an inventor and a robotics designer; he is also an international product designer and a Professor who teaches design. He also writes books ! He never finished university.
Sebastian’s two sons – my grandsons – are both dyslexic. Sam is a sound designer and his brother, Max is a cinematographer. They both got first class degrees.
Many celebrities, millionaires and successful people are dyslexic. You can be one of them.
Maths will help you achieve your ambitions.
Shirley Conran, Creator MONEY STUFF
Zina Turner is a Primary school teacher who has Dyslexia. Zina spent 200 hours testing Step 5 and Step 6 of MONEY STUFF to make sure Dyslexics can read it. Here is the letter she wrote about MONEY STUFF.
18 November 2021
I was asked to test the MONEY STUFF final maths book because I am a teacher and I am dyslexic and I am a single, working mum, so I don’t have much spare time.
While I was studying to be a schoolteacher, I had to spend 6 months in 4 different schools and 3 of these used different maths systems from the one I had been taught. I had to learn these systems and to teach them, as well as use them for myself. I have found that the MONEY STUFF maths course has allowed me to regard maths in a totally different way. The tone and format of the book allow a relaxed feel to learning.
A good maths textbook must be simple and clear because there is no maths teacher standing beside you or at the front of the classroom. You don’t have the opportunity to put your hand up and ask for help if something doesn’t make sense. to you. MONEY STUFF is by far the simplest text in a maths book that I have found to date because it felt as if someone who was interested in me was speaking to me in person.
Some of the topics that were covered in this book I found very enjoyable; especially those which required pattern making and logical working out, such as Sudoku.
I have found nearly all the examples easy to follow. They have been clear and transferable, which I have found to be the case all through this online textbook.
I have found a few of the examples tricky to grasp. As I am a dyslexic, I had to read these examples aloud, as though another person was reading them to me. Then I understood them.
From my personal experience, there are elements of maths that you learn for the purpose of passing an exam and you never use that information again. So, when you leave school, it goes in one ear and out the other. This MONEY STUFF textbook is poles apart from the others I have read because it has enabled me to regard maths in a different way, creating real life scenarios that draw upon the importance of maths in my everyday life.
As a single mother of two boys under the age of 16, I found this text book so informative that I am glad future students will be able to access information that I never had – and I wish I had been taught before I moved into adulthood.
ZINA TURNER
“I am sure students will…never again say, ‘I can’t do maths’.”
–Keith Pledger
Keith Pledger.
Author, Chair of Examiners at Edexcel.
The MONEY STUFF Plan covers the basic skills, concepts and knowledge that you need in order to be confident in mathematics and successful when taking your GCSE mathematics examinations. In taking this course I am sure students will become more confident in mathematics and never again say “I can’t do maths”.
MONEY STUFF brings mathematics to life, using real life examples and situations in a lively and interesting way. It is aimed primarily at girls, using contexts which are relevant and familiar to them – which I am sure will engage students – showing how mathematics, in the outside world, is relevant and important to their entire lives.”
The explanations, text and examples are clear and simple to understand, and the exercises are fun to do.
Jerry Jarvis
Former Managing Director of Edexcel and BTEC.
The poor maths performance of British workplace entrants is a business issue. Many employers are concerned about the maths skills of some of their workforce. We need a new approach to maths. This is it.
Caroline Shott
Founder and CEO The Learning Skills Foundation
Shirley Conran has brought maths alive and made it relevant. This will be a ‘must have’ book for every person wanting to know how to make a success of life.
The MONEY STUFF Plan covers the basic skills, concepts and knowledge that you need in order to be confident in mathematics and successful when taking your GCSE mathematics examinations. In taking this course I am sure students will become more confident in mathematics and never again say “I can’t do maths”.
MONEY STUFF brings mathematics to life, using real life examples and situations in a lively and interesting way. It is aimed primarily at girls, using contexts which are relevant and familiar to them – which I am sure will engage students – showing how mathematics, in the outside world, is relevant and important to their entire lives.”
The explanations, text and examples are clear and simple to understand, and the exercises are fun to do.
The poor maths performance of British workplace entrants is a business issue. Many employers are concerned about the maths skills of some of their workforce. We need a new approach to maths. This is it.
Shirley Conran has brought maths alive and made it relevant. This will be a ‘must have’ book for every person wanting to know how to make a success of life.
MONEY STUFF IS A MATHS ANXIETY TRUST PUBLICATION
The Maths Anxiety Trust is an independent, not-for-profit organisation with no political affiliations which aims to eliminate Maths Anxiety in Britain. This will improve financial skills – essential for the modern world-and increase personal self-confidence, equality and social mobility.
The Maths Anxiety Trust,founded and funded by Shirley Conran, is a division of the charity, Learning Skills Research Foundation
Maths Anxiety is a negative, emotional reaction to mathematics.It can lead to varying degrees of tension, from helplessness, panic, mental disorganisation, to “brain freeze“, which many children and adults feel when faced with a mathematical problem as simple as adding up a short bill, which they know how to do – but can’t.
The MATHS ANXIETY TRUST has 4 aims:
- To alert people to Maths Anxiety.
- To enable people with Math Anxiety to achieve their potential in education.
- To enable people with Maths Anxiety to achieve their potential in the workplace.
- To help prevent poverty, increase personal wealth, self esteem and levelling up.
The Maths Anxiety Trust conducts its own research, commissions research and surveys, publishes the results, holds symposiums and conferences, advises other organisations and works with like-minded charities, including The Centre for Social Justice and National Numeracy.
Among the Maths Anxiety Trust’s productions is MONEY STUFF, THE FREE, 6 STEP, ONLINE MATHS COURSE FOR REAL LIFE WHICH LINKS MATHS TO MONEY AND DOESN’T NEED A TEACHER. This tested and proven Maths Course links maths to money to help people in real life. It was designed for girls who don’t like maths but actually it is suitable for anyone of any age.
Up to ten million people in the UK are dyslexic. MONEY STUFF has also been specifically designed so that dyslexics can read it. The entire computer production team was dyslexic.
Relevant websites:
THE MATHS ANXIETY TRUST COMMITTEE
Founder: Shirley Conran, OBE, Hon Fellow UCL. Shirley has been a maths researcher since 2004. Founder of Maths Action 2009. Adviser on mathematics to the Department of Education. Founder of The Work/Life Balance Trust. A former Woman’s Editor on the Observer and on the Daily Mail. International best-selling author.
President: Margaret Brown, MA, PhD, DSc [Hon ] EdD [Hon ] FAcSS, FKC, OBE, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Education, Kings College, London. Former Chair of the Joint Mathematics Council of the UK, former adviser on mathematics to the Department of Education. Co-chair Mathsworld UK.
Chair: Jerry Jarvis, former MD Edexcel and BTEC.
CE: Caroline Shott: Founder, CEO of Learning Skills Research Foundation and the educational think tank, Learnus.
Mathematics Consultant: Keith Pledger, former Chair of Examiners at Edexcel, best-selling author of maths textbooks.
Dr Tom Hunt, Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Derby, Lead of the University’s Mathematics Anxiety Research Group.
Dr Anne Murray-Hudson, PhD. Former Head Teacher of Langley Park School for Girls, Founder of Langley Park Academies Trust. Her expertise includes teacher training.
Jeremy Dudman-Jones, Assistant Headmaster Greenford High School. Founder member of Learnus.
Lindsay Nicholson, MA, Bsc Hons Astrophysics [ UCL ] best-selling author and former editor of Good Housekeeping magazine.
Jacqui Graham, Publisher
Peter York, Visiting Professor at University of the Arts, London. Distinguished journalist, social analyst and CE of Social Research Unit.
Helen Whitten, accredited coach, mediator, conciliator and author. Founder and MD of Positiveworks [1992 -2016] a company that provided personal development programmes.
Janet Fitch, design journalist, Director of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery, Director of Janet Fitch retail jewellery shops.
Joel Cadbury, business entrepreneur and CE of Longshot.
SUPPORTERS OF THE MATHS ANXIETY TRUST
HOUSE OF COMMONS
The Rt Hon Liz Truss, MP. First elected in 2010, two years later Liz was appointed as an Education Minister and went on to serve in the Cabinet under three successive Prime Ministers before herself becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022.
HOUSE OF LORDS
Baroness Elizabeth Berridge
Baroness Nicky Morgan, Former Secretary of State for Education [ 2014 – 2016 ]
Lord [ David ] Willetts FRS. A politician and academic, Minister of State for Universities and Science [ 2010 – 2014 ]
EDUCATION
Professor Sir Cary Cooper, CBE Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health,
University of Manchester, President of the British Academy of Management.
Professor Dame Celia Hoyles OBE, Chair of Mathematics Education, UCL, IOE.
Former government Maths Czar, Maths Anxiety pioneer
Professor Mike Askew. Best-selling author of math textbooks, former Professor at Kings College, London. Former President of the Mathematical Association, distinguished international educator.
Professor Dame Alison Peacock, Former Head Teacher, CEO Chartered College of Teaching.
Professor Alice Onion, former Adviser to the UK Department of Education on the Mathematics Curriculum.
Professor Steve Chinn, specialist researcher of neuro-diverse problems in learning mathematics.
Professor Derek Bell, Director of educational think tank, Learnus,
Adviser to Learning Skills Research Foundation.
Assoc Prof. Sue Johnstone-Wilder, the UK authority on Maths Anxiety.
Dr Samantha Callan, Anthropologist, published academic, Political Adviser to Lord Farmer,
Founder and Director of the Family Hubs Network.
Dr Liz Miles, B Eng, MBA, FIMMM, FHEA, Network co-ordinator of the UNESCO UNITWIN in Humanitarian Engineering, Principle lecturer in Humanitarian Engineering, Policy Fellow at the UK Department for Education.
Steve Parsons, Head Teacher of Langley Park Boys School