Bond vs Schofiled & Sims
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Bond vs Schofiled & Sims
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We want to do so light maths practice with our 7 yr old son, who has just started KS2, to ensure he stays up to speed with his maths, and wondered if anyone has any opinion with regards to which workbooks are more effective and more fun to do out of Bond and Schofiled & Sims...?
Appreciate your views
Villagedad
We want to do so light maths practice with our 7 yr old son, who has just started KS2, to ensure he stays up to speed with his maths, and wondered if anyone has any opinion with regards to which workbooks are more effective and more fun to do out of Bond and Schofiled & Sims...?
Appreciate your views
Villagedad
What is S & S? Without me realising it, my dd might have been doing these worksheets at the tutor's. Although I was told the name, I have forgotten it. We know them as the a,b,c sheets and the worksheet is divided into 3 sections and there's loads of hard questions on them.
Is this what you are referring to?
Is this what you are referring to?
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http://www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/prodp ... ?prodid=15Tracy wrote:What is S & S? Without me realising it, my dd might have been doing these worksheets at the tutor's. Although I was told the name, I have forgotten it. We know them as the a,b,c sheets and the worksheet is divided into 3 sections and there's loads of hard questions on them.
Is this what you are referring to?
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Re: Bond vs Schofiled & Sims
We want to do so light maths practice with our 7 yr old son, who has just started KS2, to ensure he stays up to speed with his maths, and wondered if anyone has any opinion with regards to which workbooks are more effective and more fun to do out of Bond and Schofiled & Sims...?
Appreciate your views
Villagedad[/quote]
Hi, Villagedad
My son used both books and as I remember correctly (Few years back now), He preferred the Bond book. I think the Schofiled is good at developing the basic skills first , then doing more complex ones at the end. I tended to test my son's basic skills first, then took some challenging questions from both books for him to tackle afterwards.
Appreciate your views
Villagedad[/quote]
Hi, Villagedad
My son used both books and as I remember correctly (Few years back now), He preferred the Bond book. I think the Schofiled is good at developing the basic skills first , then doing more complex ones at the end. I tended to test my son's basic skills first, then took some challenging questions from both books for him to tackle afterwards.
get him to do some word problems, in my experience this is a weak area for children. The skill is to pick out from the long winded question the actual information needed.
you know the sort of thing. John cycles 2 miles to school each day on his red bike, Jane uses the number 32 bus which goes via the station and so travels 1 mile further who has teh longer journey?
I get the children to underline or highlight the parts which are relevant to the calculation
you know the sort of thing. John cycles 2 miles to school each day on his red bike, Jane uses the number 32 bus which goes via the station and so travels 1 mile further who has teh longer journey?
I get the children to underline or highlight the parts which are relevant to the calculation
OMG, those are the ones!
My dd hated them. Every week her tutor gave her one of these, the content is hard - yr5/yr6 books.
She only ever did one section at a time.
A year down the line, my dd's maths levels have shot up and she doesn't mind doing them, she flies through them.
DD has now finished with the tutor and she said a fond farewell to the a,b,c sheets. She collected her first maths homework from her new yr6 teacher and guess what - more a,b,c sheets!
My dd hated them. Every week her tutor gave her one of these, the content is hard - yr5/yr6 books.
She only ever did one section at a time.
A year down the line, my dd's maths levels have shot up and she doesn't mind doing them, she flies through them.
DD has now finished with the tutor and she said a fond farewell to the a,b,c sheets. She collected her first maths homework from her new yr6 teacher and guess what - more a,b,c sheets!
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Re: Bond vs Schofiled & Sims
Thanks essex-mum18essex-mum18 wrote:My son used both books and as I remember correctly (Few years back now), He preferred the Bond book. I think the Schofiled is good at developing the basic skills first , then doing more complex ones at the end. I tended to test my son's basic skills first, then took some challenging questions from both books for him to tackle afterwards.
Any particular reason your DS preffered the Bond ones..?
Regards
Villagedad