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discussionAll the Math You'll Ever Need:
A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)
 
by Steve
Slavin
Review by author Rebecca
Rupp
It's a self-teaching guide for math basics, supposedly targeted at
teenagers and adults who need math review. It covers multiplication and division,
decimals, fractions, percents, negative numbers, algebraic equations, exponents,
square roots, ratios, basic geometry, rate/time/distance problems, interest rates
and some other business math, simple statistics.
Early Childhood
Number Games:
Teachers Reinvent Math Instruction, Pre-K through 3rd
Grade
by Alice Wakefield, Ali Wakefield
also see
Pitter Patter Preschool
Early Childhood Math Games contains 25 original number games that a teacher can
assemble and use immediately with students. The author shows how playing math games not
only enables young children to make their own natural abilities to think, but encourages
the interaction that is necessary for the development of logico-mathematical thinking.
How to Solve Word
Problems in Algebra:
A Solved Problem Approach
(Schaum's Solved Problems Series)
by Mildred Johnson, Tim Johnson
also see
Algebra Math Center
Word problems?? No problem!! Be prepared when you get to the word-problem section
of your test! With this easy-to-use pocket guide, solving word problems in algebra become
almost fun. This anxiety-quelling guide helps you get ready for those daunting word
problems, one step at a time. With fully explained examples, it shows you how easy it can
be to translate word problems into solvable algebraic formulas--and get the answers right!
Algebra, the Easy
Way (3rd Ed)
by Douglas A. Downing, Susan Detrich (Illustrator)
also see
Barrons Educational Series
It's an algebra text in the form of a fantasy novel, with the story's characters
solving problems by using algebra. Readers discover the hows and whys of equations,
negative numbers, exponents, roots and real numbers, algebraic expressions, functions,
graphs, quadratic equations, polynomials, permutations and combinations, matrices and
determinants, mathematical induction, and imaginary numbers. 100+ drawings & diagrams.
Elementary
Algebra
by Harold Jacobs
Review by author
Rebecca Rupp
It's an excellent textbook; covers all the basics, uses interesting
examples, and is particularly good at explaining just what the various aspects of
algebra are useful for. A more mathematically enlightening approach than Saxon.
Math for Your First-And Second-Grader:
All You Need to Know to Be Your Child's Best Teacher
by Steve
Slavin
Offers an easy way to be sure children master addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division by showing parents how to be effective as teachers, including
instructions on when to repeat a concept. Based on the math curriculums of states across
the country, it covers the fundamentals, plus "new math" principles such as
grouping. Includes simple activities which reinforce each concept and a mastery test for
each grade level
| Saxon Math |
A reader from
Utah says,
"I used the Saxon books through all of my High school math courses, and think they
are *the* best way to learn algebra and higher math. The key to the success is really
twofold. 1) New types of problems are introduced with every lesson - but these are not
drilled into the student by giving them 20 or more "practice problems" to do.
Instead, only about 5 of the "new" problems are given for practice - letting the
new ideas "sink in" over a period of days. 2) Constant review. Because the
student is not burdened with lots of new ideas every lesson, the remaining homework
problems are review of everything the student has done to date. This ensures that the
student doesn't forget how to do the math, and makes reviewing for a test almost obsolete.I am now in graduate school, soon to get my PhD in theoretical
biophysics. Learning math so well in high school put me far ahead in college. I also tutor
out of the Saxon books (and others, depending on which schools the kids attend), and the
Saxon kids are far ahead of the others in terms of retention and understanding." |
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