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Customers find this book easy to understand and helpful for improving math skills. It provides clear explanations and instructions on how to solve fraction problems. They find it great for learning fractions in grades 5 through 12 and recommend it as a good purchase for anyone struggling with them.
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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:
The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this comprehensive workbook to share his strategies for mastering fractions. With 20 chapters and 250 pages, this workbook covers a variety of essential fractions skills, including:fractions, decimals, and percentageshow to find a common denominatorrepeating decimalsadding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractionsconverting between mixed numbers and improper fractionssolving problems with ratios or proportionsword problemslong division with remaindersreducing fractionsfinding reciprocalswhat a fraction means visuallyThis workbook includes a pretest and a posttest to help assess student learning. Comparing pretest and posttest scores helps to measure how much students have learned by using this workbook. Teachers, parents, and even students may find this helpful.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: TexasOdessa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book !
Review: Perfect book for anyone struggling with fractions! Explains the process clearly. This was a very good purchase.
Reviewer: Bobby W.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just the facts
Review: Please note that this math book is aimed at a mature audience. There aren’t any cute cartoons or anecdotes to be found here. What you get are clear and thorough explanations of the subject matter (in this case, fractions) accompanied by a good amount of practice problems.A very nice and unusual feature of this book is that most of the answers provided to the exercises are broken down in the answer key, so you’re not left hanging if you get a question wrong.The author even provides you with contact information should you believe you find an error in the text – that’s a first. :)So for older kids or adults who are looking for a good review of working with fractions without distractions, this is a great resource! 🙂
Reviewer: TheFamilySaver
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great answer key
Review: Love that the answer key includes HOW to do each problem.
Reviewer: kristy kious
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Help
Review: I got this to help my son understand how to solve fractions the right way.
Reviewer: I. C.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Really helped my kid
Review: My daughter who is in the 4th grade was struggling with fractions no matter how many times I’ve explained and showed her examples. So I decided to get her this book that has explanations and examples. By the time she finished this book she finally understood and now able to do fractions with no issues. Strongly recommend it for homeschooling.
Reviewer: Florabelle Raindrops
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I bought three and did the entire book with my children. There was so much I had forgotten! It was fun to laugh with them and get stomped from time to time. Chapter 11 was way too long. I think it should have been broken up into maybe three chapters. But overall, well written with great examples and practice. I suggest getting another workbook for review if this is your main text book. Otherwise it’s just perfect.
Reviewer: Tammy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book For People Needing A RefresherCollege Level Courses @ any age trying to Practice
Review: After years of using calculator’s, this is a nice workbook to refresh math knowledge, before going back to taking college courses that maybe more challenging.
Reviewer: Anglosphere space cadet
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Who is this book for??
Review: Wow. Oh dear. Do not buy this book if you or the intended recipient have any lust for life or curiosity or even breath within them. It is especially ill suited for children so I believe the book must primarily be for adults? It begins where you’d want – with slices of pie. But instead of moving on to simple addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator it is already talking about reducing fractions – which require multiplication and division- on the very next page. While many skills and operations are listed as being within the book including multiplication and division of fractions, I didn’t think it would be required within the first 6 pages. So the problem here is primarily that the book was ill suited to my purposes. My purposes were a great introduction to fractions for children, that built up to extensions of that foundation, and included at a similar level the related topics of decimals and percentages. It looks to be more geared toward adults who need a refresher for some results oriented reason. This informs the secondary problem I had which was its incredible dryness and wall of text layout. If I was using the book to teach a 17 year old I MIGHT be able to convince them I wasn’t a sadist if my teaching was quite inspired. It is possible the explanations in the book are good but if so I wouldn’t be able to tell you because I would have had to have been able to swallow them first – therefore to my mind if you can’t get the message across it’s irrelevant how good the message itself is. No such thing as silly end users, only bad code. Perhaps can be used as a reference book.
Reviewer: Nyah
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I am using this to help with my functional skills exams and it has been a massive help and I am only on Chapter 5! Amazing
Reviewer: Shivashish Sikder
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Enormous examples and explanations
Reviewer: Sam P
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: explaining how to solve and with answers explanation too.
Reviewer: Eduardo Maurico
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Apresenta uma boa sequência didática. Os alunos do 7º ano gostaram!!!
Reviewer: Jane
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Fractions were my pet hate in maths but after needing to learn fractions to pass an exam I wanted to find a book that exsplains them well. This was perfect. It was written in a very simple way of understanding and I love how it reminds you throughout the book, sections you’ve learnt and it prompts you where to find it incase you might of forgotten.
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