What are the best ks3 maths books?

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I want to get some more challenging books as my son tells me the ks2 books he plays with are a bit boring. I looked on Amazon but there were hundreds so I was wondering what ones people would suggest?

My kids quite like the CGP books for KS2 and KS3 though we haven't gotten the maths one so I'm not sure if they're as good as the science and mainly other content subjects I've gotten them for.

My son really likes the secondary CIMT books as well as their online sections (which I like because it tells him right away if he's wrong so he doesn't debate it with me - anything that stops maths debates here is a win for me). You can check out their website which has the online part for most sections and all of the books up in PDF formats for free and then the actual books at secondary level are £4 each plus shipping and bought from their site. While all of them are originally designed for use by schools rather than home use, the secondary ones do have the instructions in the books and online sections so for us they are good challenging books for maths unlike the primary ones which have very basic instructions in the books with the full instructions in the teacher's guide which is less helpful for a child who wants to do maths themself but there are some fun puzzles in the primar level which I've printed out before for my kids, particularly my maths loving son though I prefer the actual books to printing as sometimes - particularly for anything geometry related - the wrong printer settings can mess with the answers.

I also really like Math Essentials though I have the PDFs rather than the books as a good transition between KS2 and KS3 as it reviews skills in a little and often way that my kids have found useful, fun and not long enough to get bored and for me was a good way of checking all those little foundational skills that can sometimes cause bigger problems later when they're not understood and used fully. There are lots of other similar ones like Math Minute and the like which tend to be slightly more challenging than KS2 books but not as hard as KS3 ones.

Thank you! Very helpful!

This absolutely isn't what you asked, but instead of getting ahead in maths (which might make secondary boring), why not try maths based puzzles: e.g.
www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematical-Puzzles-Diversions-Penguin-Science/dp/0140136355?tag=mumsnetforum-21

He's 7 years off going to senior school but thanks for the suggestion

Oh. You're that poster.

Can you get him into computers? Understanding how they work, binary and hex, machine code, assembler, plus all the higher languages? Get him generating prime numbers or breaking codes etc?

Or football / cricket statistics and probabilities (think what you could win on the pools). Football stats might help with interacting with others a bit too?

He plays with scratch sometimes and loves looking through the tub of broken computer parts we have but he's much more interested in maths. So I just go with whatever he wants. Whatever makes him happy

My father already plays black jack and reads racing statistics with him... Not sure how to feel about that 😐