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4.5
My daughter transitioned school districts and the new district has a much harder math curriculum. She really struggled last year (3rd grade) and we ended up both miserable most weeknights with homework problems. I decided to get a jump start on 4th grade math by getting this work book. I figured I could attempt to teach her and reinforce some of the concepts, so ideally 4th grade will be less stressful. I'm pretty happy with this book. It covers a very wide range of concepts and is set up in a convenient way. Each lesson is a few pages, so it's easy to divide it up to do a lesson a day.I only have a few issues with the book. First, I think there could be better explanations for some things. 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. My daughter is struggling most with fractions, so that's why that sticks out. 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". But, it seems a little too spread out. Like "Length" is covered in each of the 3 books, so you will find length problems on pages 61, 151 and 261. I wish all the concepts would be clustered together with the basic concept first, then puzzles and games and then the math in action. It took me awhile to realize how it's set up. So now I have her complete the concept in each of the 3 sections before moving on, which is a little annoying flipping all over the book.Despite my gripes, I feel this is a very helpful book. My daughter excels in every other subject, so I didn't want a generic book with all subjects. I really just wanted to focus exclusively on math.
