Math Essentials a Homeschool Crew Review

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Math Essentials

a Homeschool Crew Review

Thank you, Math Essentials, and the Homeschool Review Crew for giving the Foote Family Homeschool the opportunity to do a review on Mastering Essential Math Skills Book 2 book.

Remembering the Essentials

My oldest son is 37 years old, has a family of his own, and just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

But, back in his teen years, he once told me that some of his friends who were taking higher math had forgotten how to do simple math, like adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

They could have seriously used Math Essentials Mastering Essential Math Skills Book 2 book!

Using Math Essentials for Review

When our family was asked to do a review on the Math Essentials Mastering Essential Math Skills Book 2 book, we decided to have Christina use it as a review workbook.

It literally took her just a few minutes each day to complete a single workbook page.

It was so quick and easy that she didn’t even mind working through it on her days off.

Remedial Math or an Elementary Math Book

Although we chose to use Math Essentials as a review workbook, it could be used as a remedial math program.

It could also be used as a full elementary math program.

Math Essentials Covers the Basics

Here is a list of the basic math concepts covered in Math Essentials Mastering Essential Math Skills Book 2 book:

Addition

Subtraction
Multiplying
Division
Fractions
Decimals
Percents
Geometry
Integers
Charts and Graphs
Word Problems
Important Symbols
Squares and Square Roots
Prime Numbers

Step One

Step One in Math Essentials Mastering Essential Math Skills Book 2 book:

Each lesson has four review questions at the top of the page.

The students start by completing these four questions.

This usually only takes two to three minutes.

Step Two

Step Two in Math Essentials Mastering Essential Math Skills Book 2 book:

Two-speed drills

One on addition and one on multiplication

Step Three

Step Three in Math Essentials Mastering Essential Math Skills Book 2 book:

Work through the review problems with your student.

Step Four

In step four, the parent/teacher explains the new concept in his or her own way.

Make sure to cover approprate concepts, new vocabulary words, and skills needed.

All of this should only take a few minutes.

Step Five

Step five is where the instructor and the student go over the Helpful Hints section together.

Here are a few examples of Helpful Hints offered in this book:

When writing large numbers, place commas every three numerals, starting from the right.

Remainders in division must be less than the divisor.

Step Six

In step six, have the instructor and student work through the two sample questions together.

Step Seven

Step Seven, allow the student to complete the rest of the questions and the word problems on their own.

Step Eight

Finally, step eight, the instructor collects the book and corrects the students work.

Or Do It Your Way

Of course, these are just the recommended steps set up by the writers of Math Essentials.

As the parent/teacher of the student using this book, you know what order will work best.

Feel free to do things your own way.

Accompanying Videos

Math Essentials provides short, but helpful online videos to help your student understand each concept being taught.

Get Three Months for Free

Math Essentials has been generous enough to offer this coupon code to my readers for a free three-month trial for their video lessons!

Thank you, Math Essentials!

Simply go to math and algebra dot com, then use the coupon code:

CREW2022

Enjoy your free 3-month trial!

Foote Family Homeschool

I really like the Math Essentials workbook and accompanying online videos.

It made me happy to see Christina easily work through these essential math problems.

I give Math Essentials a big thumb’s up!