How Our Maths Course Compares
School House Learning CentreHome education maths
For home educating families in the UK
How this compares with the schemes you have already been recommended
White Rose and Maths - No Problem! are good, and if you have already settled on one, keep it. This table is here so you can see what is different, what each one costs you in preparation time, and the one place where we lose.
| The Complete KS2 SATs Maths Course | White Rose Maths | Maths - No Problem! | Hunting for free worksheets | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | 64 interactive lessons, 379 units and 5,538 questions, all on screen and in teaching order. The full course adds another sixteen lessons past Key Stage 2. | A full primary scheme of learning with teaching slides and worksheets, used by a lot of English primary schools. | Singapore-style textbooks and workbooks for each year group, plus a teacher guide. | Whatever you can find that week, from a dozen different sites. |
| Your preparation before a lesson | None. Open the next lesson and teach from the screen. | Download the slides and worksheets, read the teacher notes, print the sheets. | Read the teacher guide for that lesson so you can lead the discussion. | An hour or more a week searching, checking the level and printing. |
| Cost | £160 once, or £200 for the full course. Lifetime access, no subscription, no renewal. | The schemes of learning are free to download. The individual year group subscription that carries the practice and the slides is £60 for twelve months, per year group, and then it expires. | Bought per year group as books. Year 4 is £11.49 a textbook and £9.99 a workbook, two of each across the year, plus the teacher guide. | Free, apart from paper and ink. |
| Organised by | The school year the National Curriculum first teaches each thing, then the work that comes after the papers. | School year group and term. | School year group. | Nothing. You decide the order yourself. |
| Worked example you can teach from | On every unit, one step at a time, on the child’s own screen. | On the teaching slides, written for a teacher standing in front of a class. | In the teacher guide, not on the child’s page. | Rarely. Most worksheets are questions only. |
| Marking | Your child reveals the answer and checks their own working. | Answers supplied. You mark. | Answers in the guide. You mark. | An answer sheet when you are lucky. |
| Subjects covered |
Where we lose Maths only. No English and no science. |
Maths only. | Maths only. | Anything you can find, so every subject in theory. |
| Who it suits | One child at home whose parent wants maths taught properly and does not want to plan it. | A parent who is happy to print every week and wants what the local school is using. | A parent who wants a printed book on the table and will do the reading first. | Topping up a subject you already teach, rather than running the whole thing. |
Correct as far as we can check at the time of writing. White Rose and Maths - No Problem! change what they charge, so check their own pages before you decide.
Where we lose
This is a maths course and nothing else. If you need one place to cover English, science and humanities as well, a full scheme will serve you better and you should buy that instead. What this does is take maths off your planning list completely, for one payment.
What you are actually buying
Not a worksheet pack
Two more units from inside the course.
Asked by home educating parents
Questions before you decide
Do I need to be good at maths myself?
No. Every unit puts the method on the screen before the questions, in the order you would say it out loud. Most parents find they are reading it for the first time alongside their child, and it works fine.
Can I use it with two children?
Yes. Both can work through the same lessons at home, each at their own point on the ladder. For a co-op, a group or a school, ask about the school licence instead.
Is it enough for a whole school year?
Eighty lessons at two a week is a full academic year with room to spare, and most families spread a lesson over more than one sitting because of the number of questions inside it.
Do you keep a record of what we have covered?
No, and that is deliberate. The free progress tracker lists all eighty lessons in teaching order on two sides of A4, and you tick them. Your record stays yours.
What if my child is ahead or behind their year?
Start where they actually are, not where their age says they should be. The free practice questions are the quickest way to find out, and the topic checklist gives you a skill by skill picture.
What happens after the papers in May?
The last sixteen lessons take over. They are not on the Key Stage 2 curriculum and are not tested, and they cover ground a child meets in Year 7.
Free, and no email needed for the questions
Try the teaching before you spend anything
Free practice questions
Sixteen topics, three difficulty levels, and fresh questions every time you reload the page. Use them to find out which lessons your child actually needs before you buy anything.
Open the free practice questions
The free maths topic checklist
Thirty-eight topic groups and one hundred and twelve skills to tick off, plus a progress tracker listing all eighty lessons in teaching order. Four sides of A4, and it doubles as your record of what you covered this year.
Download the checklist and trackerCarry on
The rest of it
Two ways to buy it
The Key Stage 2 lessons on their own, or the whole library including the sixteen that carry on past Key Stage 2. Both are one payment, and both are yours to keep.
The Complete KS2 SATs Maths Course
The 64 lessons on the ladder from Year 3 to Year 6: the ones the National Curriculum covers and the SATs papers test. 379 units and 5,538 questions.
£160 once, lifetime accessSee the KS2 SATs courseThe Complete Maths Course
All eighty lessons, 463 units and 6,773 questions. Everything above, plus the sixteen that sit past Key Stage 2 and take a child into Year 7 work.
£200 once, lifetime accessSee the full courseEverything opens in a browser. Nothing to install and nothing to print. Built for a laptop or a desktop computer. Try the free practice questions first.