Best Popular & Elementary Arithmetic
1 Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. “The clearest, simplest, most entertaining, and best book yet on the art of calculating in your head.” —Martin Gardner, author of Mathematical Magic Show and Mathematical Carnival.
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Find Best Price at Amazon":) It's a great book to get the old mind to do some mental push ups and become younger."
"Arthur Benjamin makes math fun and interesting."
"OK, I may just like math for math's sake, but there are some actually useful techniques and methods in here."
"Learned so much from this book!"
"After seeing the author at our local college I bought this book for my son."
"Though I will never be good enough to beat someone with a calculator, I am often able to work out problems in my head to the amazement of my friends and family."
"Very good... and have many useful math short cut tricks and some of them are complex for the kids to remember."
"Very useful book which tells you how to handle Math problem in a totally different way, Must read."
MATH GAMES & PUZZLES Code Breaker After solving problems with addition and subtraction, multiplication, fractions, temperature, time, or money, students use the answers to solve a fun riddle. MATH IN ACTION Going Green Estimating the number of discarded plastic bottles or the fraction of trash that can be recycled in different types of bins are a few practical ways students use math to learn how to improve the environment. Sylvan Learning is the premier provider of tutoring services for grades pre-K to 12 in North America.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Granddaughter loves the purchase made, thanks :-)."
"Very good book."
"for my granddaughter who loves math."
"Although we haven't finished it I like the way it transitions slowly from easy to more challenging material."
"Best book we have found for summer review."
"excellent book to support math for 3rd grader."
"Excellent book for learning on kid spare time I bought this for summer vacation so they can have something to learn on in the book it's great my 3rd great son enjoys doing because it's just one page a day."
** Building a strong foundation in math is essential for children in the first grade. Sylvan Learning is the premier provider of tutoring services for grades pre-K to 12 in North America.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I got this for my son to keep up with his studies during summer break."
"I love all the Sylvan Math books."
"She loves math & it is very similar to what she is learning."
"Got this for my niece as part of her christmas(poor grade) punishment present."
"Has decent problems for extra practice some are easy.My son is in the first grade."
"For example, the long division section has a great explanation and examples on how to do it, but comparing fractions with different numerators and denominators doesn't have a good section explaining how to do it. Some of the book seems too easy (adding and subtracting big numbers) and some of it seems more difficult (again I'm thinking of fractions). Second, it's great that the book is like a 3-in-1, with "Basic Math", "Math Games and Puzzles" and "Math in Action". Despite my gripes, I feel this is a very helpful book."
"The book doesn't have much practice pages."
Best Counting & Numeration
I SPY NUMBERS is based on the bestselling I SPY LITTLE NUMBERS. Jean Marzollo has written many award-winning children’s books, including the acclaimed I Spy series and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARTIN LUTHER KING.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great for small children."
"I Spy is a great book for all ages."
"This book is much smaller and not as detailed as the hardcovered books."
"Bought this for my 2yr old and he loves it."
"This is a great little book for kids."
"This is very, very simple."
"Grandchildren ages 3 & 5 enjoy all the I Spy books just as I did growing up and still do!"
Best Popular & Elementary Pre-Calculus
Interactive tutorial exercises: MyMathLab's homework and practice exercises are correlated to the exercises in the relevant textbook, and they regenerate algorithmically to give you unlimited opportunity for practice and mastery. You can regenerate these exercises with new values for unlimited practice, and the exercises include guided solutions and multimedia learning aids to give students the extra help they need. Students are actively engaged in practicing math, ask more and better questions, and enjoy the learning process. They feel a real sense of accomplishment because they recognize and can take credit for the role they’ve played in their success.” from Jill Shirley, Cal Poly Pomona. “MML is one of the most reliable of all online Math programs.” from Sheila Pisa, Riverside Community College (CA). I have fewer students dropping out of the courses I am teaching using this method than in the past - before MML.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I paid a little more to purchase as fulfilled by Amazon. That way I could send back with ease, if there was an issue."
"This is straight forward and easy to use for learning and submitting homework."
"This is a MathLab student access kit purchased for my son's college class."
"So happy I found this!"
"As far as what you get with an access card in general I would say that having one for math is the most beneficial of them all, it give the opportunity to do practice, to have a professor go other chapters and sections and show work (they are prerecorded) It also gives quiz and test reviews."
"However, it is better to purchase the access code straight from the website!!! After reading some reviews, I agree that of course, if you open the code it is almost impossible to get a full refund back, let alone a refund in general. Now I have to wait to see if I will get a refund, so that I may purchase an access code through the Pearson website instead..."
"When i went to put in my code, it wasn't working, and i called two different people about this after searing EVERYWHERE for their phone number, and now Pearson won't switch my code without costing me because they don't tell you you have to purchase certain codes for certain platforms."
"I was assured I would be getting a hard cover copy of the text in addition to the copy of the access code to the online stuff."