maths curriculum : can anyone recommend books for teaching year 3-4?

[ZZZen]

Hi. I'm looking for a maths book to actually teach year 3-4 maths rather than workbooks aimed at supplementing material already covered in class. I see a lot of those types of workbooks about but not actual instruction books.

Can anyone recommend a maths curriculum they have used? (I am not a maths buff btw and neither is dd, so the easier it is for me as dp to follow the better really!)

Would second the AC Black books - really good activities, follow NC / framework etc esp some of the more obscure objectives.

Lots of the activities are practical, number cards, matching etc. which children seem to enjoy more.

They are mainly photocopiable sheets - you could prob buy them, copy them and sell on ebay!

can't judge from their website, are these ac black books for teaching at home too or are they for teachers working with classes and doing group activities?

My dd got totally lost in the maths she was doing at school in Germany so I always tried to "fix" it at home with different workbooks and she is ok now but I want to recover the ground from scratch working with a good curriculum to make sure she really knows her stuff (irrespective of what goes on in school). Just want to make sure the basics are really clear in her mind so I want to recover that ground with a very clear good straight-forward system IYSWIM.

Had a look at the Saxon site but they don't have any sample pages etc so not sure what to think of their programme, although I know it is widely used.

Let me know if you find anything ZZZen as I'm also looking around for dd. She has the basics but needs to practise. I looked at teh ac balck website but I don't know what age group she would be in. She's 9 and in year 4 but that doesn't mean she'd be at the same level of a UK 9 year old IYSWIM.

yes I know, different things are covered in different year groups it seems. I know an American book I used to supplement year 2 in Germany included fractions, adding, subtracting and multiplying basic fractions, graphs etc which they did not touch on in German school that year, etc.

Have a look at some of the things recommended on here, they are very good tips. If you were seriously contemplating moving back to the UK and dd would be attending a state school, she would be following the national curriculum so the standards site (see Clam's link at the beginning) would be the way to go and maybe order the books from there.

Hi ZZZen, you asked if they were for teaching at home. I use them for teaching mine & the thing I like is not only that the books are for individual areas of maths, that unlike workbooks, they take longer than 5 minutes to complete. They also give lots of ractice on areas that they might be struggling with.
Have a look on ebay, there is one that end tonight & it's on 99p at the moment.
shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=developing+numeracy&_sacat=See-All-Categories

thanks chatter. Think you're right, I 'll just order 1 of the 4 to see what they're like and whether dd gets along with it.

Have you printed any of the sample sheets off their site?

Another suggestion!I like these

I also like the look of those yurtgirl. Thanks for the tip.