has anyone used the power of 2 workbooks? If so what did you think of them?

[lisalisa]

The title says it all really.

We hvae been doing kumon wiht our 7 year old for about a year but i can't say its helped all that much apart from wiht confidence. I'm looking for somehting that follows but explains and reinforces the national curriculum in maths a bit more.

Anyone used these resources and with what resutls?

No-one ? How about edplace?

We have just started using power of 2 workbooks and my son is six years old. We have only done a couple of pages. Its too early to say whether its effective.

Its written in a similar style to Toe by Toe.

We never tried Kumon, I was staggered by the expense. Several of my son's classmates do it and it does seem to help with mental arithemetic, but the children truely hate it.

Not the same thing - website rather than workbook - but both of mine completely adore Mathletics, which their schools have subscribed to. (I think you can subscribe privately too - not sure though.)

Thank you all so much for your replies.

Issy - I clicked on teh bond nonsense books and read one or tow sample worksheets as i was veyr interested in your statment that for explaining concepts this was good. Couldn't see from sample worksheets where it was explained. As this would be pure gold from my point of view ( I am very good at maths myself but intrinsically ifswim and have no idea how to break down or explain concpets - to find a system teaching me how to do that would be amazing) I am interested to learn how and where those concepts are explained by bondnonsense.

Really hope you see this thread.....

Bink - mathletics sounds great too - just had a read and very reasonable price....now a bit stuck for what to do ..............

lisalisa - the other thing I've recommended recently is a maths textbook which has been lent to us by the school ds is going to in Sept (so that we can check he's up to speed): here is ds's one - it's part of a series, so perhaps Book 1 might be better to start with (and there are answer books too)

It explains things very very well, I find.

Bink - how does it actually explain? Does it , when dealing wiht division for e.g. explain to the child how to understand what divisino is and then how to apply it to questions?

Great thanks - I'm off to have a look.