We have gotten to that stage of the year where my son has finished some of his subjects and we are now either moving on or doing some revision. For some subjects like History we have actually started his year 9 content a little while ago with the thought that if we finish his year 9 work early we can just start with his IGCSE content a bit early but Maths is different. Even though we have finished his Year 8 Maths I don’t want to move on just yet instead I want to do some revision. Now don’t get my wrong my son is actually not bad with Maths, he tends to grasps the concepts quite easily but he does not have the best memory, so even though he did not struggle with the Maths and he actually sailed though it I still feel like we need to do some revision. So for easy revision and a quick way of knowing that we have covered everything I got him a copy of the CGP Year 8 Targeted workbook.

Let me start by saying for new home educators – these revision workbooks that you can buy at most bookstores are designed for school kids as an extra resource. They DO NOT take the place of a student book, they are meant to be a revision tool, so they tend to have no explanation and limited examples. You often get a page or two of examples on a topic which is totally fine for revision purposes but it is not sufficient if you are using this as you main source. As a home educator you will need a Maths student book. (Okay I just wanted to clarify that for any newbies as I often see this question about the revision workbooks that you buy in the stores).

So this workbook includes everything that they cover in Year 8 Maths and very importantly it has answers at the back (I really hate it when they make you pay extra for the answers).

Okay so it cover all of Year 8 Maths and has the answers – two very important facts. But what I also like about this workbook is the pages are not over crowded (some of the revision workbooks tend to try and squeeze way to much onto one page).

The book is split into 5 sections and at the end of each section they do include 2 pages of review exercises (which is really just some extra practice).

And my son enjoys the comments in the boxes at the bottom of the page.

It is just a revision workbook but it has everything that you need so if you are looking for a revision workbook then this one ticks all the boxes.

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