what textbook for OCR further maths A level?

Hi,

This month I've just started OCR further maths A level. MY school textbooks are quite poor and like to by one to help me through my studies. Ideally for core, stats, mech, and discrete but mainly for core/pure. Can anyone please advice a good text book for me to buy?

Thanks

Reply 1

-G-a-v-

Don't OCR write specially written textbooks for their course?

Reply 2

Microfrost

distortedgav

Don't OCR write specially written textbooks for their course?

Yes they do but I dont think very highly of them. My class mates also agree that they are quite poor hense why I am looking into some others.

Reply 3

rottcodd

I did OCR maths a-level and we were given this 'Understand Pure Mathematics' by Sadler and Thorin ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199142599/qid=1094912317/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_26_1/202-0306805-6885420 )

Although the books good and has loads of questions to practic, there isn't much explaining involved in it, rather just a heap of exercised. We all found the books written specifically for OCR to be much better!

Reply 4

dan2004

I must admit I cannot see what the problem is! I have taught myself further maths to AS and will continue teaching myself for my A2's, using only an OCR textbook, and I have found them more than adequate. All one has to do is do all the exercises, OCR sets the exam hence the questions will be similar

Reply 5

cobra

Microfrost

Yes they do but I dont think very highly of them. My class mates also agree that they are quite poor hense why I am looking into some others.

I bought the OCR ones, while they may not be brilliant they are fairly good compared with books we were provided with where the answers were full of mistakes and the worked examples were often wrong