Collins Practice — COLLINS MENTAL MATHS: Ages 8-9 Paperback – 5 Dec. 2011

The media could not be loaded. These are great little learning / maths books. Really different to a normal maths book where you usually only get adding a subtracting sums. This has a bit of everything and general maths related questions including clocks/time and more. I’m saving it for my 8 year old for when we go on holiday as an extra activity. I purchased one for his little brother too but a different age range, Really pleased.

Has been really helpful with helping my daughter to work on her maths at home to help consolidate the learning at school.

does what it says on the tin, simple upper KS1 maths. nice and clear with answers in the back.

It is an easy to use booklet, my daughter loved filling in the chart at the front to map her progress. It really drove her on. There are a couple of areas that perhaps she missed, or that they haven't covered yet in her school that I was able to then explain to her. It was very satisfying watching her progress through the book getting the concepts that she knew, right, as well as learning additional ones. She enjoyed the book and it didnt seem like extra work, she often wanted to do more than one page each day. The only downside is the terminology, it did take an explanation in other words for her to grasp the concept sometimes.

A clearly presented workbook with mixed practice. Clearly set out.Would prefer that each of the ‘tests’ were renamed ‘practice’ or something similar.

Bought this along with 2 in the same series for different ages for my granddaughters. They are perfect and what is more they like them. Very fast delivery even at Christmas - no it wasn't a Christmas present - but still they do ask to do one. Very good layout not exactly the same layout as the Y6 SAT but its very easy to add timings etc. Well worth the money, and much cheaper than anywhere else.

Wanted a weekly test that covered a range of maths skills such as telling the time, mental addition / subtraction, multiplication, division, shape and data.The tests in this book do just that and the children really enjoyed doing them. It highlighted which areas they found trickiest and meant that they could then complete further activities to support their understanding. The children liked having the tracker sheet and colouring in their score each week so that they could see how they had done.Would definitely recommend.

This is the 3rd book that I have purchased, also bought 6-7 years old for my year 2 daughter. She loved the 1st book and finished it quickly. However, she found it a bit easy; hope that she will find this 7-8 years old a bit more challenging. The book allows you to cover many topics. Also bought 8-9 years old for year 4 daughter, antoher excellent book.