ORT books: Is there an equivalent set for Maths?

[LoveRoses]

Hello All,

I'm very new to the Mumsnet forum and would love to get some advice...

I've seen quite a lot of impressive discussions on the ORT books for reading and was wondering if there's an equivalent set of books for Maths?

Ds is in Yr 1 and and at the moment would like to use books other than the Bond Series / Scholfied & Sims books.

Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Kumon has graded level books for maths (but I think the grades are US ones). They are available at Amazon.co.uk.

Why do you need them LoveRoses? I'd say just ask the school what they're doing/ targetting and make up number games around that. We get told every term what they're working towards and it's easy to nudge them along with number bonds and other targets just through what you meet in everyday life.

Our school use the Abacus maths scheme which has 3 books for each year

Hello All,

Thanks for the suggestions.

SofaQueen I've heard about Kumon in the past - always thought they were more inclined to tutoring kids but wasn't aware they also had graded books (in maths)...I'll look these up on the internet to see if they've got any workwork books I can use for Ds

Smee, ds gets homework from school once a week and the content for maths seems increadibly easy and unchallenging - so I tried speaking to one of his teachers (a TA actually) and he couldn't really tell me much..i.e didn't know what ds's performance level was in school, what the syllabus for this term in maths / literacy / other subjects was...nothing. Ds main teacher is off sick till after the half term and in the meantime no one seems to know anything!

Bottom line is, I'd like to supplement his learning at home (by introducing variety)as he's a very keen child to learn.

Princessparty, thanks for the info...just tried to look up the "abacus maths scheme" on google but not entirely sure how it works...are the books graded? and have they got practice workbooks?

Apologies for the seemingly long post but it's just that I believe that if a child is keen to learn whilst their young, 'tis best to do all one can to support them

These booklets (links on lh side) give the Maths targets for Year 1 children, with some suggestions for activities you can do at home.

Thanks a lot for this RustyBear, these are very helpful and would most certainly use them for Ds...cheers

Loveroses - we've just bought some of the schofield and sims books for dd y1 but we bought the y3 versions.

Rainbowinthesky, prior to buying the Schofield and sims books, what maths books did you use for your dd?

Where there any specific maths books your dd's school used / recommended?

Just curious as my ds's school don't seem to have any for structured learning(at least none that I'm aware of...)

We did Kumon for a while but we both found teh like of variety intensely boring. I've only just bought these books but they were just what I wanted. If your ds doesnt find Y1 stuff challenging then I would start from where he is at rather than the age.