We teach traditional maths, in a logical manner. We provide lessons, examples and then practice questions and tests, all at a low monthly cost, often less than the cost of 1 hour private lesson with a tutor, and far less than leading study centre based systems. We also provide word based questions and tests, with explanations. Children can download and print lessons and worksheet or undertake them online with automatic marking with results stored in a history tab.

Currently, the site is aimed from Year 1 onwards, allowing children to master Key Stage 1 and up to Key Stage 2 (age 11).

Unlike other programs, we don’t expect children to study maths every single day. We recommend study 5 days a week for short bursts of 20-30 minutes for younger children and slightly longer for older children.

If you want to give your child a head start and consolidate ability in mathematics, this site is recommended as an alternative to private tuition and more expensive centre based systems, which don’t even provide mock SATS style tests. This site allows children to learn themselves, or even with parents, providing lessons for the parent to focus a lesson and be as effective as a personal tutor. The costs are much lower than a personal tutor or centre based programmes. Consider the cost of other activities such as Karate or Football, and compare the cost of undertaking those activities to the cost of CoolCleverKids. The costs of this system are highly competitive. Remember, the cost of buying a single SATS test can be over £5 a paper. Our site has such tests as standard, automatically marked with explanations included.

CEM 11+ usually requires knowledge of year 6 maths.

Buckinghamshire 11+ is not as competitive as areas such as Birmingham; Walsall, and Warwickshire, as all schools in Bucks have the same qualifying mark (unlike other regions), so Bucks children require less preparation, and need not progress to year 6, level 6 maths.

We recommend children cover topics that that have not covered in school (to KS2, year 6 level 5) using the Lesson & Worksheets section of CoolClever Kids (CCK).

They can download lesson notes, watch presentations and undertake worksheets.

Once they have covered all the topics they should test their knowledge by using the Test section of CCK and undertake SATS Style KS2 by Subject (Year 6) Revision tests by Subject.

During CEM 11+ tests, calculators cannot be used.  Sats style papers where a calculator is permitted, can be undertaken without a calculator (apart from a few questions).

Once these tests have been completed, children can undertake SATS Style KS2 Mathematics (Year 6) Tests. Start with level 3-5. Children can progress to level 6, if able (it is unlikely Bucks children need tackle level 6 papers).

Time-permitting, children can attempt some of the 11+ and Independent School (Year 6) Exams.

The final section to tackle is the CEM University of Durham Style 11+ Questions. Some of these questions are straight forward, however some are extremely difficult and may require as much as 5 attempts to master.

Not only for mental arithmetic and because tables are the foundation of many other topics such as fractions.

Progress is steady and is supposed to be that way. You may think progress is slow, but it’s not/ Children need to learn in small steps. What appears easy to you may not be easy to children. Consider many children are taught tables at school and take over 1 year to know them all, and that not even thoroughly. We expect children to know their tables to 12, in order, in random order and inversely (division). We test this comprehensively and provide online worksheets to practise. You should notice improvement in your child’s ability over the months.

A child should progress from basic concepts to advanced concepts and appreciate there are often better and shorter ways to do things. But, when beginning, they may not grasp more advanced concepts until they master basic concepts.

There are two types of worksheets, either standard worksheets with a fixed number of questions, or a random worksheet which consists of different sets of questions every time. By clicking “Generate New” a new worksheet is generated which can be printed or undertaken online. If you want to print answers, then the parent must do so when printing the worksheet, because if “Generate New” is clicked again the worksheet and answer sheet will change. Since questions are selected randomly from a database of questions, some questions may be repeated, but the worksheet will not be identical to the previous one.

Practice makes perfect and we think children learn and retain information by practise. Once they have fully understood concepts and mastered a topic they can move on. We don’t believe in extreme repetition like some other teaching methods. Come on, you must agree some children get bored doing the same thing every day for months!

The Government SATS tests were not designed to be undertake online, so we have modified them to be suitable to be undertaken online. E.g. It is difficult for a child to draw a 8cm line on a computer, so we ask a child to measure an object. Due to copyright reasons, we slightly change questions, such as names of children, or “juice” to “milk” etc. But, the questions are essentially the same or very similar and in order of a SATS paper.

Because, we not only provide questions and answers, but we also provide explanations to many answers.

Some systems time a test for 2 minutes. This puts children under a lot of pressure and means children who are fast answer more questions. But, we ensure all children get the opportunity to answer all questions at their own pace. They can monitor performance by the marks and aim to beat their last mark and undertake work at a faster pace. Since we store the time taken to undertake a test, a child’s improvement in speed can be monitored.

Answer sheets cannot only be printed from a parent login. This option is not available from a child login.

Worksheets can only be completed online by children using their own login. This option is not available from an adult login. Occasionally, some work sheets are not available online as they are more suitable to be done using pen and paper.

 Most lessons are in pdf format. You will need to have a pdf reader installed on your computer. You can download a free pdf reader.
 Occasionally, some tasks do not have lessons as they have already been provided and these worksheets are for revision of testing chunks of subjects.

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Not all 11+ exams have an entire paper with multiple choice questions.
However, Buckinghamshire exams are purely multiple choice.

CoolCleverKids is used for preparation and not simulation of exams (11+ exams are on paper not online).

Forcing a child to write an answer is a better way of learning and ensuring understanding as guessed answers would not render as much as 20% correct answers.
This is the reason why all questions are not multiple choice based. We think it benefits learning.