Mastering math is one of those skills that is essential to life. Over the years, I've learned that reading, writing,and arthritic are subjects that are extremely important in our homeschooling. Those core subjects is an area we didn't skip on. Recently, we were given the opportunity to review Mastering Essential Math Skills Book 2 Middle Grades/High School from Math Essentials.
Mastering Essential Math Skills is not just another math textbook.
This book teaches a system to learning and mastering math!
The Daily Lessons are broken up into 5 key points.
Two Speed Drills
Review Exercises
Helpful Hints (teacher tips)
New Material Section
Daily Word Problem
The material is presented in a way for students to master math skills and gain confidence in their math abilities.
The easy to follow lessons can be done in 20 minutes a day! Each lesson is concise and self-contained. The nice thing about the lessons presented in this book are that they pertain to all areas of math. The constant review allows students to completely understand these important math skills.
Everyone needs strong math skills!
The book is broken up into 8 chapters.
~Topics Covered~
Whole Numbers
Fractions
Decimals
Percents
Geometry
Integers
Charts and Graphs
Word Problems
The book contains a final review section to finish out the learning.
There is an answer key for parents and students to check their work. It's a standard answer key. It just provides the answer to each problem. How to solve the problems are not included.
At the back of the book, there is a resource center. It contains a glossary and a few important resource pages. There's a page of Important Symbols, Multiplication Table, Commonly Used Prime Numbers, Squares and Square Roots Table, and Fraction/Decimal Equivalents. These pages are a great resource for students to utilize.
Mastering Essential Math Skills Book Two is geared for middle grades to high school. There is a Book 1 that is geared for students in grades 4th through 5th.
An added bonus to this book is the free access to the online video tutorials that come when you purchase the book.
The book can either be used as a full curriculum or a supplemental curriculum. It's up to the parents and student to decide how they want to use the book.
I don't want to do math!
~What We Thought~
At first glance, I honestly thought the book was geared for younger students. It looked like simple math. Once Michael started using the book, we quickly realized it was a fantastic book to keep math skills sharp! So many math books tend to forget to review the basic math skills that students need day in and day out. Michael is currently working through an Algebra 1 and Geometry book and I noticed simple math skills were slipping. It wasn't that he didn't know how to do them, he just would make foolish mistakes. I'd see it was wrong and he'd immediately see what he did wrong and correct it.
We added Mastering Essential Math Skills to his schedule. He worked on lessons 3 days a week. He does math 5 days a week, but since we were using this as a supplement, I didn't want to overload him.
Michael found the time to complete a lesson very doable. He was easily able to add it to his daily school schedule. He felt the book was great at reminding how to do certain skills he hadn't seen in awhile.
Mastering Essential Math Skills would be a great supplemental math book for summer. It would keep the students math skills sharp and crisp in the mind.
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The Review Crew were given the opportunity to review two other books to review. We've used and reviewed both the other books, No-Nonsense Algebra and Math Refresher for Adults.
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Till Next Time,
Monique
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