Chock full of entertaining mathematical ideas, puzzles, tricks, and word problems, this book proves that everyone can be a math whiz. "Students can't help but grow in mathematical skills and positive attitudes."--School Library Journal.

 

Word Puzzles & Games

Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company 2002 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 0887247237 | PDF | 7 MB

njoy building basic skills with Home Workbooks! Filled with age-appropriate activities, puzzles, and games, this teacher-approved book is perfect for extra practice at home or school and during travel

Aimed at middle school reading level, realistic range would be from upper elementary on up. For adults, would be useful to get a "feel" of the genres, though these aren't hefty duty "how to write" texts.
Readers become writers with tips from expert authors. Each book concentrates on a particular genre, providing writing activities, excerpts from well-known works, and a writer’s timeline to help translate imagination into real stories.

Many useful procedures explained and taught: two-column addition, left-to-right subtraction, direct multiplication by numbers greater than 12, mental division of large numbers, more. Also numerous helpful short cuts. More than 8,000 problems, with solutions.
 I gave it a five star simply because the books is simple and very effective at getting you to learn the "art" of quick calculation.
I looked at all the others in that field. Most of them teach you tricks for quick calculation. To do certain calculation you need to remember the tricks. There are dozen of them and you just get confused. This book do not used trick but teach you "number sense" ... and how to calculate from left to right with complex number. Beleive me, I was affraid of that kind of calculation and with that book I learned a lot

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Category: Parenting, Communication, Psychology, School Age Children, Family, Teachers, Parents
Here is the bestselling audiobook that will give you the know-how you need to be more effective with your children -- and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding.