Author: Graham Lawler
By Studymates Ltd

Fab book - make sure you buy more than one, 2007-02-20
Make sure you buy at least two copies as you'll be lending this to other folks to use as well and will not see it back. A superb aid in teaching and learning. Highly recommended.

By Heinemann Educational Publishers

+ simple, VERY thorough & well laid out , 2007-08-19
Textbook is clear and well laid out. A very wide range of examples are given across all the specification topics, helping to develop understanding to the required depth. The C3 unit contains few areas of study, though understanding to depth of these areas is crucial for success. An enormous number of practice and exam-level questions are given, which going beyond the *standard* required, lends to very effective preparation. Making use of this book, I (an average maths student) scored 90% + on the C3 unit examination.

Author: Rob Eastaway
By JR Books Ltd

Discover a whole new mathematical world in a fun, yes FUN way!!, 2008-09-02
I couldn't put this book down! Being a bit of a maths-phobic it took me by surprise, but once I'd started to read about the fascinating world of everyday maths I was hooked.

Forget algebra and algorithms, not to mention quadratic equations, here is maths explained in terms of missing socks, card tricks, birthdays, games involving cutting up envelopes, flipping a coin, sudoku puzzles and much, much more. I now know what a palindrome is, and am starting to see a whole new (potentially beautiful - no exaggeration) side to maths. If only I'd understood these things while at school, it would have brought a whole new dimension to those dreaded maths lessons! There's plenty to engage everyone here, from the maths-phobic to the maths mad. Rob Eastaway may just have succeeded in making maths more popular and understandable to anyone who reads his book. A great book. Very readable.

Author: Simon Singh
By Fourth Estate

When Cambridge mathematician Andrew Wiles announced a solution for Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already laboured in solitude for seven years--to establish that he had solved the 350-year-old problem. Simon Singh's book is a lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the colourful history that has build up around Fermat's last theorem over the years. The book contains some problems that offer a taste for the maths, but it also includes limericks to give a feeling for the quirkier side of mathematicians.
Mathematics as you've never seen it before, 2008-05-21
I was never a fan of maths at school. It did not come easily to me and I failed to see the relevance of trigonometry to my everyday life.

I say this so you realise I am not some sort of science geek who was best friends with a calculator. That's because I found this book absolutely fascinating. It made me laugh 3 times in the first 20 pages alone!

What Simon Singh does is through Fermat's puzzle describe the history of mathematics from Pythagoras right up to the 1990's. To the layman names like Euclid put in the mind very dull old guys, but they are brought to life with fascinating anecdotes. For example there's the tortured young French mathematician Galois who is dead by 20, his final mathematical theories frantically scribbled down before a dual. Then there's the story that Pythagoras himself drowned a man when he discovered a certain type of number he objected to!

All of this is carefully woven into the story of Andrew Wiles' life long obsession to prove Fermat's last theorem a puzzle that had foxed the whole world for over 350 years!

Everything is explained in a way that it can be digested by someone who has only a passing interest in maths and as a whole is a remarkable book.

Author: April Pulley Sayre, Jeff Sayre
By Walker Books Ltd

Author: Rob Eastaway, Tim Rice (Forword)
By Robson Books Ltd

If you've ever bought a Lottery ticket and wondered about your bad luck afterwards, you've had to deal with math. From timing to probability, it pervades our every waking moment, and even the most crippling maths-phobia can't make it go away. Writers Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham throw up their hands in defeat and give in to the amusing, interesting and practical aspects of math in Why Do Buses Come in Threes?. Taking their title from the oft-noticed phenomenon of clumping in mass transit, they explain in clear, common-sense language why this must be so. At the end of their description, you might be left with the uneasy sense that you just learned some maths and on a quick review, you'll find that the authors have in fact snuck some in under your radar. In chapter after chapter, Eastaway and Wyndham successfully navigate statistics, codes, coincidences and many other parts of our lives, peeling away the surface to show what's really going on to make our lives so weird and wonderful. Diagrams and drawings help to make their points even clearer and there are almost never any scary formulae to frighten the timid. If you've been waiting your whole life to learn the Ham...
Great for sceptical pupils, 2007-06-08
"Sir, what's the point of maths?" The question that any maths teacher dreads. This is one of the books that I always recommend to my older pupils (aged 15 plus) who want to see how maths connects to the sort of things they are interested in. There are nuggets of interest in every chapter, with some serious mathematical ideas interspersed with other much lighter stuff. Apart from its sister book How Long is A Piece of String, I know of no other maths book that is pitched in this sort of fun and accessible tone with such real-world content.

By Heinemann Educational Publishers

Good book, 2005-05-25
This book is good for AS maths, with good layout.
Also, on the topic of mistakes, those books were renewed after the massive amount of mistakes were found. We saw loads of mistakes at the start of the year, and our teachers complained. New ones were posted to us, renewed, and now all the answers (for questions that I have done anyway) are right, and I found my exam, which was on monday, a breeze with the help of this book, and the revision book that's also made by heinemann for edexcel, which I would HIGHLY recommend for people next year.

Author: T R Goddard, J W Adams, R P Beaumont
By Schofield & Sims Ltd

The perfect partner for helping your children with their homework , 2007-11-30
Having met my daughter's maths teacher who showed me this book to be the foundation of her teachings to all the children in Year 3 (7/8 year olds) I knew that this, together with Books 1,3,4,5 & 6, would be the ideal support for homework assistance. Until I bought this from Amazon, I had no guidelines at all and didn't know if the arithmetic I was 'teaching' at home was too hard, too easy or just plain useless. Now with this book I have the perfect assistant, because I know that the specific topics covered and the level of difficulty is exactly matched to what my daughter is studying at school, so it's an excellent revisionary tool, and it's even enjoyable too! Strongly recommended, I have no doubt that with regular use of this book at home my daughter, and her younger sister when her time comes, will have a much better chance of making the necessary grade in Year 6 and go on to our local grammar school. Sounds a bit over-the-top, but in its way, this little book can actually change the course of your children's lives - because the difference between our local grammar school and the comprehensive school is obvious for all to see. Getting a good grade at Arithmetic at age 11 is a fundamental requirement to being selected for a school offering better standards of education and in turn better opportunities in the future. I bought Books 1 through to 6 and I'm pleased I did.

Author: Tony Crilly
By Quercus Publishing Plc

Author: Timothy Gowers
By Oxford Paperbacks

Making Sense of Mathematics, 2008-07-28
I have become addicted to the "Very Short Introduction" series, offering the knowledge-hungry layman a great way to gain insight into a wide variety of topics. For me, mathematics is a subject which I was happy to close the book on in upper school, and it seems I was not alone in lacking enthusiasm for the subject which was impressed upon hapless students as being so important (why maths is so dreaded by many is a question this book seeks to answer, amongst many other "FAQ's" of this kind).

Rather than presenting a mass of complex formulae to prove various points, the book takes the approach of explaining the practical applications of mathematics, such as why modelling is relevant in many different situations, and how an understanding of patterns can be of value. Teaching mathematics from such a practical stand-point is a trick modern school education may be missing, yet the book suggests this might be the key for a new generation to understand what's being taught and actually getting excited about the subject.

Rather than being a dry read best left for boffins and insomniacs, this is a book which provokes thought and puts this fascinating subject in a whole new light.