Have you noticed how many web sites there are around proclaiming that "Maths is FUN" (or more likely "Math is FUN". Why do people have to keep telling you this? Why aren't there more web sites around that say things like "Football is FUN" or "Snowboarding is FUN"?
The unfortunate truth is that maths is not fun, unless you're destined to become the next Nobel Prize winner.

For the rest of us, we have to slog away at maths, not knowing how it really works, spewing out formulas in exams at random and ending up with pretty mediocre marks. The aim of Easymaths is to put a stop to all this and reveal the secrets of maths in a way that is easy to understand and to make maths a challenge rather than a chore.

Virtually all of us at some time (or all the time!) are left clueless in maths classes. You begin to wonder if there is something you are missing. You may start to think "What's the point of it all" or "How can this help me in the job I want to do". In these pages I hope that you will find explanations, which seem so easy you wonder what all the fuss is about and find suddenly that the whole maths thing begins to "click".

The free GCSE on-line course is not meant to be quick fix to help you scrape a pass in maths - there are many excellent revision sites which do this already. The course aims to make you a maths expert with as little effort as possible.

If you take in all of the secrets in these pages then you'll be achieving much more than a pass grade. Try to treat the pages as a voyage of discovery, if you really hate maths - give the site a chance. Have a browse around and you may be surprised at how much of maths can be used in everyday life.

To see how maths is used in the world of work take a look here.