How to Help Your Child Excel in Math

By Brita Immergut

Book Overview

The book is an alphabetical dictionary and handbook that gives parents of elementary, middle school, and high school students what they need to know to help their children understand the math they're learning. The book can also be used by students themselves and is suitable for anybody who is reviewing math to take standardized tests or other exams. Foreign students, whose English-language mathematics vocabulary needs to be strengthened, will also benefit from this book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156414528X
• ISBN13: 9781564145284
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A good little math DICTIONARY

I thought that this book would give strategies on how to help my child excel in math. It definitely is not what I'd imagined. In actuality, it is a math dictionary. It is written simply and concisely and is pretty easy to understand. The book even includes some practice exercises. It's a wonderful book to review forgotten math terms and simple concepts. However, it was missing two definitions that I needed help with: array...

Invaluable Resource for Parents

If you're like most parents in their late thirties and forties and its been more than 20 years since you've done any math, this book is an invaluable resource when you child asks you for help with his or her homework. For example, do you remember how to solve a problem with negative exponents? If not, get out the book and look up "Exponent" under "E," and there will be a simple explanation. Thank you Brita Immergut!!!

"Math's Martha Stewart (only fun!)"

Brita Immergut makes math fun! And accessible. There's not much more to say. Except that her publicist should be out trying to book her on every day time talk show in America. She's turned something difficult into something that seamlessly draws kids and parents closer together, and make them smarter in the process. The author deserves a platform and, even more, the huge audience of families who want to learn together. Buy...