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GED Mathematics (Steck-Vaughn Ged Series)

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I have been teaching the GED for 20+ years, and I insist that each of my students own this book. First of all, it breaks down the basic math skill areas into clear steps with helpful examples. Then it gives the student lots of opportunities to review what they have learned and assess their growth with mini-tests after every 3 lessons and unit reviews. Also you can practice for the GED by taking three full length practice tests. The answers and explanations in the back can help a student learn from their mistakes. Best of all, the level of difficulty matches the actual GED pretty closely (not true of other publishers) so if the student can do well in this book, you can expect that they will do well on the GED as well.

My three complaints about this book are:
the chapter on percents is confusing. There is a much better way to teach percents that asking students to memorize and manipulate a diagram.

There needs to be more on charts and graphs, which are getting bigger and bigger on the GED. Also I wish there were more on ratios & proportions. I always find that I have to supplement the book when I get to this lesson because SV gives us very few word problems, and they are all too easy.

There should be a bigger section on multi-step problems, also another huge area on the GED. SV is great for breaking down the test into skills, but sometimes questions ask you to work more than one skill at a time.

SV Math can use improvements, and I would supplement it with some of the newer stuff from Contemporary (another publisher of GED books) but as a basic GED math text, it really is the best book out there. I highly recommend it.

I bought this GED book for my 12 year old son. I am a home school mom and this GED book, helps my child to understand fractions and algebra better then any math book I've ever ran across. I love how this book breaks down and simplifies learning math. This book is not just for those who are studying for their GED, this book is good for any middle school-high school aged child, who may need that extra help in math. As a home school mom, this GED math book makes my job a whole lot easier to teach.

I used this book as well as the corresponding books for the other GED subjects and was able to pass the GED with perfect and near perfect scores. My GED instructor even commented on the fact that I was done with each test within a fraction of the time allotted for each test.

There is way more info in these books than you actually need to know for the test. If you can master what is in these books you will pass the GED on the first try with no problems.

This is a great workbook, it gives you step by step instructions on each format. Easy to understand instructions and plenty of practice problems so you understand fully of each form of math, i am not completely finished with the book, but so far it has lived up to the price.

An excellent help for anyone serious about preparing and testing to pass the GED test. I'm using it to tutor the county jail inmates in Monroe county, Tennessee

My son was discouraged in studying for his last test for his GED - math. This book was most helpful and he expressed much gratitude. Thank you.

This was an excellent way to prepare for the GED. I bought this for a friend and she was able to pass it on her first try.

I found this book to be informative and simple. You can also check and see if you answered the problem correctly and see where you might have gone wrong.

This is the perfect math book for someone who struggles with math. It starts off with basic math, then it takes you to the more difficult math.They include easy to follow examples and step by step methods of how to solve the problem. This book has a complete list of answers and what page to find them on. Also included is the word problem approach to math, wich is needed for the GED. This book can be used for children in school. The step by step guide for solving problems is easy to understand.

I used this book in my GED classes and it really helped. When I went to college later I had some more advanced math classes, but this book was helpful to review some things and help me get a better foundation for the later stuff. I think it is really easy to understand and it has a fair amount of practice problems to work on. I would recommend it to anyone.