Click to enlargeMental Maths Advanced
The harder Year 5 mental maths set. Start only after the Foundations book.
- 29 tests in ten levels, picking up where Book 8 finishes
- Mixed units, measures, fractions and diagrams, all in the head
- Mastered means 27 out of 30 twice in a row
- Every answer with its method fully worked
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How this book is used in our course
Three short tests a week, no pen for the working. Mastered means 27 out of 30 twice in a row, and only then does the child move up a level.
Where it sits in the series
- Previous book in the series: Book 10, Long Maths
- Next book in the series: Book 12, Worded Problems Mastery
What's inside Maths Mastery 11
Four real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 9 sample pages are in the viewer.
The Year 5 mental maths ladder: ten levels, picking up where Book 8 finishes.
Twenty-nine tests of 30 questions, 15 minutes each, in ten levels. The format is identical to Mental Maths Foundations, and that is deliberate: a child who mastered Level 10 of Book 8 starts Level 1 here and finds the questions have moved on, not the rules. Measures, fractions of amounts, two-step money and time now arrive without the scaffolding Year 4 had.
Level 1 of the advanced book starts where most Year 5 children already struggle: mixed units, in the head.
A quarter kilogram plus 140 g plus what makes half a kilogram. 190 minutes in hours and minutes. Three fifths of 40 kg. 3.25 m in metres and centimetres. £8 divided by 100. 9 cm minus 3.5 cm, answered in millimetres. The exam does not say "convert first"; it assumes the child will. This book makes that assumption true.
Level 10: the mental maths an independent school expects on the day.
Share 79p among 9 children and say what is left over. If 28 April is a Thursday, what day is 5 May? How many eighths in 5 3/8? Which of 0.03 m, 43 mm and 3.6 cm is longest, and by how much? A car uses 8 litres per 100 km; how many litres for 1200 km? A shopkeeper buys eight balls for £1.44 and makes 24p profit: selling price each? Thirty of these, fifteen minutes, no calculator.
Every answer, every method, fully worked.
The methods are the mental routes a tutor teaches: "Double three times: 48 → 96 → 192 → 384", "Take away the extra 20p, halve, add it back", "The clock is ahead, so take away 15 minutes". Question 17 explains the rounding: "3/8 is less than 1/2, so round down." A child reads the method, sees the shortcut, and uses it on the re-try tomorrow.
All 29 tests in the book follow the pattern shown here.
Other Year 5 books in Maths Mastery
Statistics & Data Handling
Reading charts, tables and averages quickly and without errors.
Algebra
Letters, sequences and equations introduced the way the 11+ sets them, not the way textbooks do.
Maths Rules & Quick Tests
Every rule from Books 1–6 on one page each, with a quick test to prove it is still there.
Short Maths
One-mark questions under the clock, where exams are won or lost on care.