10 Minutes A Day Maths, Ages 7-9 (Key Stage 2)

Good but very few pages. Could have had more material

Nice book

“Maths - Ten Minutes a Day’, VORDERMAN, Carol, 2020, DK Publishing, ISBN: 976-1-4093-8542=6, soft, large format text Typical of the series, it contains whole sets of questions on a wide range of typical SATS questions - Measuring Weight, Beat the Clock, Charts and Tables, Probability Questions - followed by the answers and notes for parents. The paper is high quality and the test is colourfully laid out, in an easily understandable and accessible way.

What can I say - Carol Vorderman is a Government adviser for Mathematics so even the questions have a little SAT feeling about them which is great - some of the questions in the book resemble maths questions written as a sentence. I deliberately bought an age-group lower for my 11 year old son to keep his mind ticking over in the Christmas holidays and give him confidence. He put up a bit of resistance on day 3 of doing the exercises but now does his 10 minutes with no hesitation when I ask him. He likes to see how quickly he can do the sums using the timer. Hes just done a mental maths test after the Christmas hols and scored 24 out of 26 beating some of the cleverest in his class. The teacher must think that she has a new star in the class!!! I like to think that this book helped him achieve that. In fact, he said he remembered something from the book that helped him do a 16*25. Amazing really - I'm going to see if there some English ones in the Carol Vorderman series as well - I think every school should sell these books to parents to reinforce what they are doing in school - I bet the SATs scores would go though the roof!!

It does what it says on the tin. My daughter (8) says that she is struggling with maths and the few questions we ask her she gets wrong and she says she doesn't do well in tests. Our problem is that her maths homework is done on her tablet (mathletics) which doesn't allow for working out or for us to see the working out. We wanted to give her some fun'ish extra work that we could see her working out and go over with her, without her being too bored or complaining about doing it. This does exactly that. She like the timer and can manage a couple of pages in that time. The questions aren't hard at all, but seeing as she is struggling that is just fine. I've only given it four stars in that she hasn't improved at all, but that may well be just her apathy towards maths rather than a failing in the book.

Great workbook son really enjoys these