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Mastering Essential Math Skills: 20 Minutes a Day to Success (for grades 6-8)

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This book by Richard Fisher really tells the tale. Students are not strong in their basic skills. This book gives each teacher a chance to put the students best foot forward. The speed drills were looked forward to each day in my classroom. We use this book at the 6th,7th and 8th grade and have had no problems with it being repetitive. The students testing better on the SAT 9 and the MAC.

This is by far the best math workbook we've ever used. It comes with Teachers Handbook and Answers. It has review skills before each lesson and a quick lesson on how to do the problems on each page. I wish I had found this one long ago, before I wasted my money on the others.

Over the years, I have purchased countless "learning guides" for my two daughters. We always started with the best intentions but quickly became bored and found an excuse to try something else.

Mastering Essential Math skills (6-8) is different! We are trying to figure out what to do when we complete this book. (Only about 20 more pages). I wish there was a sequel!

I am not aware of any other books that do a quick review of basic skills, a good review of newly learned materials, followed by a new lesson on almost every page. There is an overall review for the section as well as the book. It's fast paced learning with review, review, review.

I have recommended this book to my friends and would recommend it to you as well.

I have used this book as a skill drill for most of my classes. The falw however, is that if you don't follow the same order in your curriculum, the students get lost in the "review" excercises. The addition and multiplication skill drills are a bonus.

I used this book in my home school this year and all three of my kids tested many grade levels above average. Great book.

Very good practice for basic math skill

This is an amazing book. i didn't need to use the book for homeschooling or anything but it helped me with my confidence going into sixth grade.


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A great book. However, this is the original edition. The new, expanded edition includes a "How to Use This Book" section as well as the solutions. That's the one to purchase

This is a good book, but the answers are not in the back of the book. If you don't want to do the math before your child, find an edition that has the answers. I know some do, your other choice would be to find the answer key. I ordered the answer key, both books say middle grades, but the question and answers don't match.

Ordered it for my child to keep things in mind. It is a great 1-2 page review of each topic covered in 5th grade.