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Math Made Easy: Third Grade Workbook (Math Made Easy)

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In third grade children will need extra practice and this workbook provides a fun way to encourage your child to reach their full potential in school and on important standardized tests. This is part of a complete home-study program to help your child practice the essential math skills they learn in school.

- Provides practice for all the major topics for Grade 3.
- Includes a review of the Grade 2 workbook with a preview of the Grade 4 workbook.
- More Times Tables practice.
- Answer Section with Parents' Notes.
- Progress Chart with stick on stars.

Contents:

Writing Numbers in words
Ordering numbers: 1,574 4,683 7,847 2,563 - order from smallest to largest
Rounding to the nearest ten
Polygons
Addition fact families
Fractions
Ordering decimals - putting them in order from smallest to largest
Multiplying
Dividing
Word Problems
Telling Time
Number Pairs
Times Tables
Subtracting
Real-life problems
Calculating the perimeter and area of rectangles and squares
Averages
Estimating
Volumes of cubes

Supports National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards.

Math Made Easy!

~The Rebecca Review

I recently purchased this workbook and was generally pleased --until my third grader began to practice her multiplication tables. We were both very disappointed to learn there were no worksheets for times tables for the 6's, 7's, 8's and 9's. I couldn't figure out why they would be omitted. There were worksheets for the 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's and 10's. I was quite surprised and felt that rendered this book incomplete. I had to purchase yet another workbook with a complete set of worksheets, but this time I went to a bookstore so I could inspect the entire book to ensure it was complete.

This book is what you expect from DK. Solid drills with clear and concise reviews on all 3rd grade topics. Answer keys are complete and easy to lookup. Nice stickers and high quality printing. The problems are not difficult. Its goal is to make your child master the fundamentals, not just know them.

An effective way to achieve mastery is to time the drills. I recommend you set a clock for your child and let him experience the real test feeling and get rid of procrastination. There is a nice website Beestar.org that provides free daily timed math exercises you can use to compare your child's speed with others. My son's math skills (include speed) improved significantly with this book. I'm glad I bought it.

I use this series as a summer workbook review for my kids. It covers a lot of the basic concepts for each age group. We don't do the pages in order, though, because if you're trying to reinforce a concept, you need to group some of the pages yourself together.
My kids like it--especially the gold stars that they get to stick on each correct completed page. Plus the price at Amazon is great and the number of pages lasts the whole summer.

My only problem with this workbook is that information within it is not organized. All math topics are mixed up and it is very hard to nail any specific math task without jupming 20 pages at a time.

My son did "Math made easy 2nd grader" during summer before his school started last year.
We also purchased one for 3rd grader this summer to prepare my son for the 3rd grade math.
Compared to a Sylvan 3rd grader math book which we already finished, it has more problems, covers a lot more topics (such as remainders for division and addition of fractional numbers etc.) and has depth for some topics.
We are in general happy but it has two problems.

Problem 1: Some workorksheets (e.g., topics for times or diving by 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 tables) are from "Math made easy 2nd grader" and there is no worksheet for times 6,7,..,9 tables. We are fine with this because my son has been practicing times tables that his school assigned as summer homework. But to those who expect worksheet for full times table, it will be a disappointment.

Problem 2: The main problem of this book is the order of topics.
It introduces "two digit numbers times one digit number" (such as 35 times 3) and "two digits numbers divided by one digit number" (such as 42 / 4) before times or diving by 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 tables. Also, topics are scattered over the book rather than clustered. So this book should not be done in the order. Instead make sure that you glance over the book first, organize topics on your own, and tell your kids which pages to do each day.

We have used these books for the past 3 years and the only thing missing was a bit more written instruction for each of the new concepts. I was surprised and dismayed at their use of fractions with absolutely NO instruction. As a homeschooling mom, I believe that fractions are one of THE most difficult concepts to master; and personally, I think 3rd grade is too young an age (on average) for a child to be expected to compare fractions! Other than those sections, the books have been perfect for laying the math foundation my elementary child needed.

This book is ok for my 8 yr old grandson to do 'review' with, but it just doesn't have enough practice for each skill set. One or two pages on multiplication then on to division, etc. Just not enough for our needs.

We have used many workbooks for practice but this workbook has proved far better for our kid. We tried scholastic, school speciality and some others but they were all pretty basic and our son finished them in no more than two weeks. With this workbok, style is pretty and well organized, contents are just enough and topics well presented. Highly recommended for practice lessons.

I was very pleased with this purchase. I was looking for a way for my 8 year old to review her math over the summer months. Very comprehensive.
Excellent resource.