Just seen the 2007 sats publications on amazon :
KS2 2007 SATS PAPERS
ISBN (13) = 978-0955614309
ISBN (10) = 0955614309
KS3 2007 SATS PAPERS - HIGHER TIER
ISBN (13) = 978-0955614323
ISBN (10) = 0955614325
KS3 2007 SATS PAPERS - LOWER TIER
ISBN (13) = 978-0955614316
ISBN (10) = 0955614317
You can search on Google for these ISBN's and try to get the best deal, or go straight to the publisher's website at : http://www.actual-sats.co.uk, where you can buy them on-line, as mentioned in a previous post.
I've not seen the ability to take the on-line mental maths test in the way provided in these publications, but it's very neat - effectively, you go to the publishers website, with the user name and password given to you in the pack, and then you see a button - by pressing the button you can take the key stage 2 or key stage 3 mathematics test (depending upon what you have bought). The official audio is played through the speakers of your PC, and your child write down the answers on their answer sheet. You can take the mental maths test as many times as you like before the beginning of the sats in May.
They offer the mental maths in this way to replicate the real test, which children take by listening to a CD of the audio in their classroom during the test.
Children get 5, 10, and 15 seconds to answer each question, depending upon the difficulty of question. Each question is read twice, before moving on to the next question, and so on until the test is complete.
http://www.sats-past-papers.co.uk/ also has a simulated test (called the Harris test), which works in the same way, that they sell for £3.99 I would keep checking this site, because I know they sometimes have offers, and you can download the mental maths and other items too ...
The BBC site is also good for practicing using their Bite Size questions. They also supply the actual past papers, but they are more expensive. Last year, the maths papers alone were £9.99 I believe, and when you add the science and the english, that comes to a whopping £29.97 (or thereabouts). The Actual Sats publications are only £14.50, so make much better value for money and sense to me.
