Detailed Product Description
Summer Book 5 (2nd edition) is for students entering the fifth grade.
It contains fifty pages of activities. The top half of each page reviews math concepts. The bottom half of each page reviews language concepts. There are thinking skills or reading comprehension exercises on the back of each page. A complete answer key is located at the back of the book and may be easily removed.
Some of the math concepts reviewed are:
- addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
- finding the lowest common multiple
- graphing
- working with prime numbers
- converting measures
- solving word problems
- rounding numbers
- using divisibility rules
- factoring numbers
- finding area and perimeter
- writing numbers from words
- placing commas in numbers
- using plane geometry terms
- averaging
- comparing metric units
- using greater than and less than symbols
Some of the language concepts reviewed are:
- common and proper nouns
- adjectives
- pronouns
- adverbs
- identifying subjects and parts of speech
- action, linking and helping verbs
- diagraming
- fragments
- types of sentences
- contractions
- synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
- possessive words
- punctuation
- singular and plural
- capitalization
- writing sentences
- writing descriptions
Whole Numbers and Fractions, Level A helps students conquer "dreaded" math word problems by teaching them when and how to apply the math operations they already know to real-life situations.
The developmentally sequenced problems in each book are arranged so they cannot be solved by rote processes. Each problem requires its own thinking/problem-solving approach rather than applying the same solution process to entire groups of problems.
Fraction Pack These dice help provide variety when learning about fractions. The set includes suggestions for helping a child with fractions and eight dice: dice for sixths, eighths, tenths, an addition and subtraction die and a multiplication and division die. The dice are 16mm.
This package contains: 2 tenth dice,
2 eighth dice,
2 sixth dice,
addition and subtraction
die, multiplication and division die,
directions and suggestions