I am really happy with our Maths student book that we are using but Maths is one of those subjects where you really need to practice so to make sure we had enough practice material I also bought my daughter a CGP IGCSE Edexcel workbook and I bought her the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Revision workbooks (I actually bought both the foundation and the higher version of this).

We are really enjoying these workbooks for a number of reasons. But let me start by clarifying the difference between the Foundation and Higher one. The foundation book only includes questions for kids aiming at grades 1 – 5. However I found there were not a lot of questions around grade 5 level. If your kiddo is aiming for Higher grades than you may find this is a good revision of basics before going onto the Higher workbook (that is how we are using it). The Higher workbook has questions in the range of grades 4 to 9. So you can see there is some overlap (grades 4 and grades 5) with the two workbooks. And you will find there is some duplication of questions but so far we have not found a lot of duplication, in fact we have found there is often completely different pages in the two workbooks.

Here are a few sample pages from the Foundation workbook

And here are a few sample pages from the Higher workbook.

One of the first things that really stuck out about these books was something very simple but incredibly useful for us home educators. On the contents page of both of these workbooks they have used a simple key to highlight which topics they consider “tricky” and which ones they consider a “hot topic”.

Another important thing to stress is all answers are included at the back of these workbooks.

We are using these together with our student book as a source of extra practice questions. So for us that means we are not working through every single page and sometimes we use the page out of the foundation book followed by the page from the Higher book and sometimes we only use the page from the Higher workbook. It really depends on what the Maths topic is. I also sometimes get my daughter to just go back and do pages out of here on topics that we covered a few months ago, just so we can remind ourselves. But honestly I think however you choose to use these books they are useful and there were not that expensive (I paid under £5 for each workbook).

I am finding these really useful as a Maths resources for our IGCSE (yes I know they are written for GCSE Maths but Maths questions are Maths questions and we really just needed to find some good quality sources). We recommend these workbooks.

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