Our best-selling Spectrum series adds real-world math practice! Spectrum has now expanded to include Spectrum Enrichment Math, which focuses on real-world applications of math curriculum. Featuring comprehensive instruction and practice with word problems that were developed with the latest standards-based teaching methods, Spectrum Enrichment Math provides examples of how the math skills students learn in school apply to everyday life with challenging, multi-step problems. Perfect as a supplement to classroom work or as a home school resource, as well as for proficiency test preparation, these workbooks are the essential source for parents and teachers to help bring math skills out of the textbook and into the student's world. Spectrum Enrichment Math Grade 3 helps young learners improve and strengthen their math skills with real-world word problems, covering topics such as: • Fractions • Metric and customary measurement • Preparing for algebra • Graphs and probability
For seven years, Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned critique of K–12 mathematics education, it outlined how we shortchange students by introducing them to math the wrong way. Here Lockhart offers the positive side of the math education story by showing us how math should be done. Measurement offers a permanent solution to math phobia by introducing us to mathematics as an artful way of thinking and living. In conversational prose that conveys his passion for the subject, Lockhart makes mathematics accessible without oversimplifying. He makes no more attempt to hide the challenge of mathematics than he does to shield us from its beautiful intensity. Favoring plain English and pictures over jargon and formulas, he succeeds in making complex ideas about the mathematics of shape and motion intuitive and graspable. His elegant discussion of mathematical reasoning and themes in classical geometry offers proof of his conviction that mathematics illuminates art as much as science. Lockhart leads us into a universe where beautiful designs and patterns float through our minds and do surprising, miraculous things. As we turn our thoughts to symmetry, circles, cylinders, and cones, we begin to see that almost anyone can “do the math” in a way that brings emotional and aesthetic rewards. Measurement is an invitation to summon curiosity, courage, and creativity in order to experience firsthand the playful excitement of mathematical work.
Help English language learners write and speak in English with English Skills for grade 4. This 128-page book teaches English skills through whole-group and individual instruction and includes reinforcement and enrichment activities. This book covers topics such as grammar, punctuation, and writing. The book also includes reproducibles, a glossary of terms, and an answer key.
Our Calculation Workbooks follow the Kumon Method, a proven learning system that helps children succeed and excel in math. Kumon Workbooks gradually introduce new topics in a logical progression and always include plenty of practice. As a result, children master one skill at a time and move forward without anxiety or frustration.
The books in this series offer advanced math and reading lessons for students excelling in grades 3-6. Lessons follow the same curriculum the child follows in school, while presenting the material in a way that the child feels challenged. Includes an answer key. Full-color illustrations. Consumable. (Available now)
Summer Success Math, Grades PreK-6 During the summer months between grades, children can lose serious academic ground, leaving them unprepared for the school year ahead. This unique series helps children bridge that summer learning gap by offering activities that review, reinforce, and extend the important skills they need for the coming year. Summer Success Math is an extension of the Summer Success series and focuses only on math topics. It presents math concepts covered in the grade just completed and presents new concepts that will be introduced in the upcoming school year. Each workbook supports national standards in math education. These books will help children perform confidently and competently in math in the upcoming school year. The full-color, lively illustrations aid in explaining the material and help make learning fun. A comprehensive Answer Key and Developmental Skills checklist ensure learning success. Summer Success Math, Grades PreK-6 During the summer months between grades, children can lose serious academic ground, leaving them unprepared for the school year ahead. This unique series helps children bridge that summer learning gap by offering activities that review, reinforce, and extend the important skills they need for the coming year. Summer Success Math is an extension of the Summer Success series and focuses only on math topics. It presents math concepts covered in the grade just completed and presents new concepts that will be introduced in the upcoming school year. Each workbook supports national standards in math education. These books will help children perform confidently and competently in math in the upcoming school year. The full-color, lively illustrations aid in explaining the material and help make learning fun. A comprehensive Answer Key and Developmental Skills checklist ensure learning success.
This full-color series creates an enjoyable reading environment, even for below-average readers. Each book contains interesting content and colorful, compelling illustrations, so children are eager to find out what happens next. Answer key included. Consumable. (Available now)