Maths workbook recommendations please!

[TreeMugger]

My 6 year old has asked to do more maths stuff and likes the idea of having a book to work from. I've been looking at the Carol Vorderman books, are they any good? Any others you can recommend?

[Velvetbee]

Noooooo, not Carol. The books didn't seem organised in a logical order, a bit random rather than skills building on skills and there were lots of pretty pictures but not much actual maths. We went with Conquer maths online but someone will be along in a minute with other book suggestions.

[TreeMugger]

Thanks Velvetbee. I think it is specifically book she wants rather than a website at the moment but I'll keep Conquer maths in mind for the future.

One of her friends (who goes to school) asked how she learns maths so I think it's a kind of reassurance that's written down in front of her that she can do what the school kids do that she's looking for!

[JustRichmal]

I taught dd from the Letts revision guides, working through two or three of the box sections at a time and making up questions on a note pad on whatever topic we were covering as we went. I kept repeating the work for a couple of days. I then got dd to do the questions in the matching workbook by herself once she was secure in the maths.
In addition she loved doing the Letts Mythical Maths series as revision of things we had done earlier and, as there is a little section explaining things at the top of each page if she had forgotten, she got on with these herself.

[TreeMugger]

Thank you! I'll have a look for Letts books, they sound really good.

[kvass]

We use, amongst others, Galore Park.

[kvass]

www.galorepark.co.uk/

[sonlypuppyfat]

I've used the Letts books and the HE lady who came around to look at what we'd done said they were good.

[AtiaoftheJulii]

The Singapore maths books (we used My Pals Are Here) are excellent imo. Not cheap, but really good at making you think and gaining a proper understanding.

[musicposy]

The WHSmith revise maths series is excellent from 5 right up to age 14 and Bond No Nonsense is my favourite for ages 5 -11. We used both of these when DD2 was younger and found them really good.

[lavendersun]

Galore Park - wonderful books, very thorough, cover all sorts of interesting things, nicely presented.

Junior Maths book 1 is recommended for Year 3, I don't think that they do anything before that.

You can download samples from their web page.

[NettleTea]

we have a full set of Life of Fred - working through with 8 year old DS and 13 yr old DD - can honestly say its the only time DS has begged to do more maths...

[lavendersun]

We have used Life of Fred too, well the first five books, I am not entirely sold on it though to be honest, obv lots of Americanisms and feels a bit trivial at times. We got through a book a month and sort of left it after the fifth one because the other books we use seem much more thorough from a maths point of view.

[morethanpotatoprints]

I think they are all pretty good in terms of covering the basics. We seem to have a mix and dd uses whichever she feels like on a particular day.
Schofield and Simm are excellent but very dry, no pretty pictures but thorough.
Then at the other extreme are the puzzle type books with more exercises than questions, then everything in between.
I don't think there is one particular book to do the lot tbh, but if somebody knows of one I'd like to know to.
Letts, Collins, and those books from The Works that cover English and Science too. These are great if you are out for the day and need more than one subject.
We also have the revision, workbooks and study books from CGP.

[nousernamesleft]

We use Teejay. It ties in with the Scottish curriculum, but a book which covers the whole year is approx £8. They're pretty good, they are what a lot of the schools round here use, and you can download extra worksheets from the website for extra practise.
As it designed for school use, you tend to need to use a jotter instead of writing straight in the book, but I may well use them for the next lot of kids, so thats not an issue for us.