Edexcel International GCSE Maths Student Book Paperback – 24 Aug. 2016

My son was using the Pearson textbook and didn't enjoy it. I was recommended this by a friend and as soon as he started using it he didn't look back. I need to say that my son was not a very confident maths student and we were aiming for a C pass. He found the introductions to each topic really helpful and felt the style was completely unthreatening. He achieved an A* which we would never have expected! There are some mistakes in the textbook but it actually turned out quite positive for us as my son would say 'I'm sure this is right!' and felt very proud when he turned out to be correct. Chris Pearce certainly has a talent for being clear and logical!

Useful book with good explanatory examples

Some pages are missing at the beginning. Overall ok.

This book is the size of a telephone book, in the days when everyone had a land line! It also has an amazingly unattractive cover, nothing about this book says "come and open me". However, once you open it up it is not at all scary inside, it starts nice and simple, and build things up slowly, explaining as it goesIt has plenty of questions to work at, and avoids large chunks of explanation, it build concepts up slowly. My 14 year old daughter loved it from the start, she sat down and worked through two chapters in one go, humming happily as she went. (And tunelessly, but I suppose I cannot blame the book for that).I got this to help with GCSE, looking for a book that would cover (roughly) the same topics but in a different way, and with different examples, to the school - and it is hitting that need perfectly.I would recommend this to anyone looking for GCSE help - and I found it helped with the parts I was unsure about as well.

My daughter is always taking about work she is set on-line by school, so if she is stuck it is hard to go through things step by step and give her extra examples to try when you are just doing one question on a web exercise. Having the physical book has helped us be able to engage with helping her again. Book covers everything clearly. Quality is excellent. Very pleased

I've bought dozens of Maths books over the last 5 years or so in my work as a tutor. However, this is the best so far. This book is very thorough, clear and has loads of practice exercises - covers Foundation and Higher tier work. Answers at the back of the book. Would recommend this for any course, not just iGCSE.

Used as maths text book from Y9-Y11. If you child has it as his textbook at school this is a great investment to keep at home. The book is big and heavy which makes school backpacks unnecessarily heavy. Also, no more excuse of "I forgot my book at school/home"

I agree with a previous reviewer. I have been using this book to prepare my son for the Maths iGCSE and the answers section is full of errors (as are areas in the teaching section). As an example, in Chapter 8, the section on upper and lower bounds, they explain in an example that lower <= value < upper, but in the case of a value that can't be divided, the upper bound is actually <=. Then in the answers to the questions, they violate that principle. How do you know what is right when they can't be consistent either? There are numerous examples of inaccuracies that are simply wrong and conflict with other parts of the text. Also, one of the answers in the above section was literally just the question text over again???? Does anybody actually edit this stuff? You expect better of a book at this price.