Mental Math Kids Can't Resist! (Grades 2-4) [Paperback]

Richard S Piccirilli (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2000

Boost kids’ number confidence with these practical and easy-to-use mental-math strategies and fun reproducible practice pages. Students apply the strategies as they work on computation, problem solving, estimation, and so much more! Content meets the NCTM standards. For use with Grades 2-4.

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About the Author

Richard Piccirilli is a retired elementary teacher and is an Adjunct Professor of Education at Nazareth College in New York. He is also the author of Scholastic's Mental Math and Write About Math.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Teaching Resources (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439186056
• ISBN-13: 978-0439186056
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,532,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, June 10, 2003

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This review is from: Mental Math Kids Can't Resist! (Grades 2-4) (Paperback)

I bought this book in preparation for the long summer months and my two rather demanding kids. My son (age 5) loves to do math and my daughter (7) is excellent with math problems though I wanted to show her how to do things "better". I, as an adult who has been fairly efficient with math problems, have always had various "quirky" tricks that help me arrive at a math solution fast. But I found it hard to explain to my children in a systematic way why my method works. This book does the job for me. It is not a theory book; it is not exactly a workbook, though it has exercises that one can follow. It guides the reader (preferrably an adult) systematically through the process of breaking down numbers in order to solve addition, substraction, multiplification and other problems fast. Each page progressively builds upon the previous pages.

I have to admit that it helps that I have had experiences teaching and therefore I appreciate good teaching materials. I guess it also helps that I have always used certain tricks that this book discusses. But I really believe most people can benefit from this book. Each elementary school math teacher ought to get a copy of this book. Parents who wish to speed their children along with math can certainly learn a thing or two from this book as well.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent!, November 20, 2005

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Sonia Wilson (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mental Math Kids Can't Resist! (Grades 2-4) (Paperback)

This is an excellent collection of lessons that provide instructions and drills of mental arithmetic. If your child can add and subtract but needs to jump to the next level of automaticity and mastery, this book is for you. There are 8 chapters of mental math techniques on major elementary topics. Each chapter has drills to strengthen the skills. The practice sheets can be copied for more practice when needed. My child's math is improved significantly with this book. He solves problems much faster than before. In the timed Beestar math tests (an excellent web site at http://www.beestar.org), he often shows up on the honor roll. This book delivers: five stars.

16 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The books cover problem says 76+6+84 (eighty-four) not 94., November 30, 2002

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B. Boxbangieleroerrwwerevrwrer III "inre-" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mental Math Kids Can't Resist! (Grades 2-4) (Paperback)

In response to the previous reviewer who questioned this books value based upon the math problem shown on the cover. No, I haven't read this book either but I can read the cover pretty well.