Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Mathematics Higher Student Book 1: Second Edition (GCSE (9-1) Maths Second Edition) Paperback – 5 Jun. 2020

Welcome addition to a Maths tutors arsenal

Great

Bridges the gap between text book and exams

Pearson so desperate to maximise their profits they split one book onto 4 hard copy books. In addition they have taken the prior Knowledge check section onto their web site- you have pay extra .If you are not taking Edexcel math GCSE, do not buy this one- incomplete bookIf you are taking Edexcel, buy guide revision workbook to follow the specification for the exam .Do waste your money or time with this book.Actually it is not user friendly . I prefer to use GCSE math by Oxford - easily to follow as the presentations are better .

For anyone who is thinking of buying this book. In this book they are talking about Active Learning and how you can use this digital service to do so much more. You need an access code to register and that was not provided when purchased this from Amazon. Amazon directed me to contact Pearson for this code, which I did and they informed me that is not possible for an independent person to get this code from ANYWHERE. The code is only for teachers and schools, this information is not stated anywhere in the book or on the amazon website. This is the only reason for my 2 stars.

Glorified homework book. You can only access the online 'service' if you are paying for a course. This makes the book, and materials, utterly inaccessible for some disabled people who need a book in front of them.

Bottom line up front: don't buy this book if you want to learn math. It is just a book of questions. Look at the sample pages and you'll see.I'm a nerdy parent, a financial software engineer, quite willing to relearn GCSE math from scratch so I can help teach my kids when they're stuck. I use math a fair bit at work but there's loads I can't remember.My daughter was stuck the other day, and these days schools use online tools for homework. I was unable to help without using a calculator/code but the online tools don't offer help either, and they don't say where in the syllabus the student is, or what the proper name is for the branch of math they're doing - they're very cheaply constructed websites, they're not like brilliant orgSo you don't have the proper language that you need to look it up on Khan Academy. You're just hopelessly standing behind your poor child crying into her keyboard.I asked my daughter where her books were and she said they don't have any. My wife's a teacher. She said everything is online and I'm old fashioned - I remember having books, but even today all computer programming is taught from books. It makes no sense not to have a book! I have math books on specialist engineering math and electronic engineering and dozens on coding.I explained all this to my daughter's teacher and he hinted that the book they use would be no use to me, and told me not to spend the money on this, and lent me a spare copy. And here we are.There are only questions. There is nothing to teach you. I don't understand how anyone can learn anything from this, I assume these books are used by teachers to set questions and maybe kids to practice with. We lucky that she goes to an Outstanding school, yet there are no books!??!Anyway, this is half a review of modern school and half a review of this rather pointless book.

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