Mental maths

[AcanthusFlower]

My DS is in his final year of uni and is applying for graduate jobs. He is doing a social science degree and is struggling with the maths in some of the assessments. Can anyone recommend an app or online resource for improving maths agility? In particular mental maths. Thanks

The Khan Academy is free (although you may need to register) and has a very pragmatic approach. They target kindergarten through the maths background for UK STEM courses, though more comprehensively as it is packaged for American (university) students. There may or may not be materials specific to the UK curriculum, but maths is maths.

You can search for what you need. To the extent that I have a criticism, it is that Khan Academy is too practical and could use more theory. But that sounds like what DS wants.

Also the Open University has select short maths course materials available freely online. They aim to provide very good explanations. You’ve only given us a very broad description; perhaps some of these would be suitable.

I will have a look now for other public resources

Search for Block 1 at Loughborough. It is the self guided Basic Algebra HELM workbook, really good.

3Blue 1Brown is a series of good YouTube videos on maths concepts but they might be more advanced. My earlier suggestions all contain some more basic material - OU even has basic arithmetic course materials online.

@poetryandwine thank you. Much appreciated.

Competition for social science grad jobs fierce this year. DD does a SS with quants course (maths/stats modules each year) and many of her classmates not getting thru numerical tests (getting average scores). Bar seems to be raised.

DD says if not timed then spend lots of time on numeric tests. Read and reread. Double check. She's good on EXCEL so used it for some to avoid repetitive number crunching on calculator.