Series: Spectrum
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Spectrum; Csm Wkb edition (August 15, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1483808742
ISBN-13: 978-1483808741
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 0.4 x 10.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (224 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #3,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Math > Algebra #5 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Math > Fractions
Age Range: 11 - 12 years
Grade Level: 6 and up
Good book, but you need correct your sample..... Grade 3
This is our first year of homeschooling our three children and as newbie's we were overwhelmed with the advice and recommendations we were receiving by the veteran homeschoolers. We chose this series of books out of convince being that they were available locally. We do not have any complaints. They offer free online video tutorials to accompany the lessons, contain the answer key in the back (other series required the purchase of a second book just of answers) and have test throughout as well as a final test over all the lessons at the end. We will continue to use this series as well as recommend them to others.
Spectrum Math provides great math workbooks like this one. When my third grader found math difficult, her teacher recommended this book for extra home practice. This book includes essential concepts that need to be mastered by every third grade student, such as adding and subtracting to four-digit numbers; multiplying and dividing; fractions; perimeter and area; graphs and line plots and so on. It also contains mid test, final test and well-explained answer keys. It not only provides specific support in the skills and standards that my daughter is learning from her class, but also offers test preparation to support test-taking skills. This focused practice for math mastery supports my daughter's math learning all the way. She loves the tricks and voluntarily makes up her own problems to solve. She's already seeing how the techniques help her in her normal math work. She is now probably the top math student in her class. In the Beestar online math tests (a wonderful website beestar.org, which provides free math programs), she is ranked high in the honor roll. I’m very pleased with this book.
I was looking for more practice in the math area for my 5th grader who has trouble with decimal and fractions. I was using his textbook for more math practice but decided to check out workbooks and this was highly rated so I bought it. It's been useful but not the best in using it as math practice. I found it lacked variety and completeness.Just one example: Dividing Whole numbers by Fractions.I thought "Yes! My son could use more practice there." But the problem sets for two pages were only with fractions that had one as the numerator!So although he learned to divide whole numbers by fractions that were other than just 1/x, such as 5 divided by 2/3, there were no such problems like that in this workbook to practice on.I found similar issues with another section as well. For my purposes, it was a 3 star book because the areas he needed practice on just weren't there for him. But overall it's a good straightforward book, clearly laid out and useful in its own way so I docked it one star only.
I am using this book for both my rising 7th (struggles in math) and my 4th grader (advanced learner) and I can not say enough good things about the Spectrum Math series. Information is scaffolded well, laid out clearly and concisely. Material is not dumbed down. Lesson are SO important for 6th/7th grade and the way they explain exponents and powers of 10 and percents are critical in mastering material needed in later grades. It isn't straight drilling, but offers lots of review. This book actually teaches your child how to do the problems, but you have to teach the WHY. The materials is right in line with a 5th grade curriculum. My 4th grader is advanced learner with exposure to fractions, multi-step multiplication, area models, metrics and division. This is a solid book for her to advance to the 6th grade curriculum this year and I don't feel like anything is getting missed. My 7th grader has gaps of knowledge ALL OVER THE PLACE and struggles with Math. I am taking her back to build her up. She has more exposure to upper level content, but never learned WHY she was doing things and manipulating problems a certain way. This is just what she needs to get caught back up. The schools say they remediate your kids (they don't - they just teach them how to pass the EOG test), but this book actually does teach your child (you need to help of course). If you have your child work through it consistently and with fidelity, they will either advance their knowledge one level or bridge gaps they may have missed at this level. I feel relieved to have found this series for both my girls and am excited to start the 6th grade workbook which is also high rated in my opinion.
I bought this book to help my kid prepare algebra readiness test (9th grade), though he is taking 7th grade math now.pro:We bought a lot of common core 8th grade aligned practice books. But this book has most similar contents to the textbook used in our school district. Also, this book has practice questions for each topic that allowed my kid to work on questions right after he learned new materials.con:Some attached answers are wrong. The publisher really needs to have someone double check the answers.Some questions need very tedious calculation. Personally I like the numbers are specially set up.Some terms are different. For example, in this practice book, rate of change is absolute value of slope. But in our textbook, rate of change is the same as slope if it is in linear equation.
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