Total Math Grade 4

by School Specialty Publishing

Book Overview

Finally...an exciting and dynamic way to communicate basic math concepts to your young student! Total Math -- the totally comprehensive teaching guide for math available. Designed by experts in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0769635148
• ISBN13: 9780769635149
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: American Education Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 5

Customer Reviews

total math, kindergarten

This is very ineteresting book for children. colorful and appropriate activities according to the level. My son love to do activities on this book.

Great!!!!

This book is really good because it explains whatever you're doing very clearly. This book actually MAKES me want to do math! I am homeschooled and this is a great book, because it gives me everything I need in 6th grade, like percents, geometry, fractions, division (some easy and in grade level, not 4 divided by 2), measurement, and other great stuff! I highly recommend this book because it's fun and entertaining with color, pictures, and some puzzles. It also comes with stickers. I Really recommend this book!

Good

I really like this series. There is plenty of space on the pages, the print is large and there aren't too many problems on each page that might make it overwhelming. At 352 pages long it has plenty of room for everything. The book gives good practice in addition and subtraction and also spends plenty of time on developing other skills. I thought the test practice is very good too. One thing I don't like is that each book of the series has the same single page of stickers. It would have been nice if each book had different stickers to make progressing more rewarding. You might want to buy some that your child likes to prevent disappointment. Also, on the front cover it says it includes "posters", but each book (one book for each grade) only has one. It does have puzzles though not as many as it looks on first glance, but some of them are rather useful. It is nice that problems are presented in a variety of ways which keeps it more interesting than in workbooks that are just lists of problems. There are also answers to all the problems at the back, though occassionally there are some wrong answers given. There are not a lot of word problems, but they are here and there in the text. I think the only downside is that addition and subtraction are taught using a graph format. For instance, for 5 plus 7 it says: Find the 5-row. Find the 7-column. The sum is named where the 5-row and 7-column meet. It is good for a child to see that this is true, but to teach it as the way to do it isn't useful since they'd always have to make/find/use a chart rather than learn how to add. I would say this is a great book for review or practice or even getting ahead a little. I think the space, pictures and color make it easier to not get overwhelmed with to many problems. I don't think I'd use this as the only text. I'd recommend making sure your child understands what he/she is doing and to give some more practice with word problems. Otherwise I think it is a great workbook.

Get ready for Kindergarten!

My daughter is entering Kindergarten this Summer. She was a little behind in a few areas such as matching opposites, drawing her numbers, recognizing and drawing numbers up to 20, spelling numbers etc...This book is not only easy to use, but fun. She loves the stickers to reward herself too. It does take some parental involvement as well. I like how it also teaches positions i.e. Above, Below, Behind etc... She's going to be ahead of the game come Kindergarten, and she loves learning to spell words she knows.