Which workbooks (to do at home) are the best?

[Wallace]

Ds1 (age 11 in Primary 7, Scotland) has missed the last 4 weeks of school. His teacher gave him some maths to do but she gave him the wrong book.

I would like to get him some workbooks to do over the holiday - I remember seeing some which looked quite fun?

He is (or was til they changed the system) on level E. And if he is getting workbooks I had better get some for his 9 year old sister and 4 year old brother too.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

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schofield and simms are quite good. WHsmith. What I like is the fact that the books are fairly slim but you can buy the whole series and they are incremental and encourage progress which you can actually see. The kids like them because they can see an end in sight!

They are £2.49-£2.99 each so quite good value too.

thanks :)

The Bond books are excellent for Maths, English, Verbal and NV Reasoning. Short chapters, nice easy one day at time stuff. They cover all age groups and are at most bookshops.

Thanks, am googling.

Any idea which Key Stage I should be looking for?

KS2 to consolidate everything he has been taught

or KS3 to stretch him.

KS3 starts in Year 7 in England.

I dont know how different Scotland is, but I dont imagine it is very different.

Might look at KS3 because the work his teacher gave him he coomplains it is too easy because he as already covered the work so much.

DH (A secondary Head) reccomends the CGP range, says they are the "Gold standard". I personally find the style of them a bit busy, but each to their own. I use the WHSmith range at home for mine, the middle one anyway: I find their style simpler and easy to follow, but again it's down to personal choice so have a look at a few.

I bought a CGP one for ds1, Letts for dd and I Can Learn for ds2.

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Have a holiday!! Poor things-do maths by shopping, cooking, playing chess etc. Literacy by keeping a diary, visiting the library, writing a chapter story (only if they want to). Now is the chance to use these things in a practical way-not sit down with a workbook-deadly dull and unimaginative at the best of times.

exoticfruits, with respect, some children, including my middle one, enjoy doing workbooks for fun; she came into our bedroom this morning with a wipe-clean division book and a marker pen and sat down for half an hour, totally happy. She is now in the garden making "perfume" with flower petals and grass. Balance.

OK if they like them-just not if parents think they ought to like them!

By way of comparison the eldest would rather pull out her teeth with a pair of pliers than sit down with one, and I respect that. She also thinks her little sister is "weird" .

I think I was going by mine lovecheese-it would have taken very heavy bribery at that age!

Dd has done most of hers already - she loves it. Weirdly she is also in the garden making perfume with petals .

Ds2 got me to read him his as a bedtime story last night.

Ds1 (who actually needs it) had to be persuaded to do a few questions.... He really does need to do something - as I said he has missed the last four weeks of school. And he is pretty much sofa bound. Chess is a very good idea though, I must get one from my parent's house. And I have already dug out the monopoly :)