Product:	The Math Goodies CD		SRP:   $31.00
Company:	Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies		Reviewer:   Traci
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REVIEWER'S THOUGHTS: The Math Goodies CD is a great solution for math struggles and frustrations in middle school age students. It is also a great introduction to middle school math topics, and enables students to truly grasp the principles shared. This CD is explanatory enough for a student to work through on their own, and is also helpful to teachers using this as curriculum, giving them a lot of guidance along the way. The CD offers 81 separate lessons in 9 areas of math. Within each of the 9 units you will find lessons as well as worksheets and puzzles that help to reinforce each of the principles you are working with inside that unit. I walked through the entire cd and will tell you I found it to be easy to navigate, easy to understand, easy to know what is expected of you, and easy to find the help you need to fully understand how to work the problems you are given. I like that it does not randomly throw things at you, but rather has the principles of each unit precisely worked in to each and every problem you are working, so there is no confusion lurking in the foreground as I have seen in other math cds. Keeping everything in context, building the skill level from ground up, and using multiple hands on learning tools to work through each unit, helps to build strong knowledge and skills in each and every topic. This is a great cd to brush up on ones skills, great to use in a classroom as an introduction to each of the unit topics, and is great for a homeschool student to work on their own. Then, if one needs further help to grasp the topic, Mrs. Glosser offers a free website where students can go and receive one on one help with the math problems they get stuck on. The helpers here do not answer the question for them, but rather help them to work the problem and to understand it. Here is the unit description offered at their website: UNIT ONE: Perimeter & Area of Polygons Perimeter of Polygons Area of Rectangles Area of Parallelograms Area of Triangles Area of Trapezoids UNIT TWO: Circumference & Area of Circles Circumference of Circles Area of Circles UNIT THREE: Number Theory Factors and Greatest Common Factors Multiples and Least Common Multiples Prime and Composite Numbers Divisibility Tests Exponents Pattern and Exponents UNIT FOUR: Understanding Percent Meaning of Percent Writing Fractions as Percents Writing Decimals as Percents Writing Percents as Decimals Writing Percents as Fractions Percents Less Than 1 and Greater than 100 UNIT FIVE: Integers Introduction to Integers Absolute Value Comparing and Ordering Integers Adding Integers Subtracting Integers Multiplying Integers Dividing Integers Operations With Integers UNIT SIX: Probability Introduction to Probability Certain and Impossible Events Sample Spaces The Complement of an Event Mutually Exclusive Events Addition Rules for Probability Independent Events Dependent Events Conditional Probability UNIT SEVEN: Topics in Pre-Algebra Order of Operations Operations With Exponents Operations With Integers Algebraic Expressions Algebraic Equations UNIT EIGHT: Introduction to Statistics Range Mean Advanced Mean Median Mode UNIT NINE: Symbolic Logic Negation Conjunction Disjunction Conditional Compound Statements Biconditional Tautologies Equivalent Statements Check out Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodie website for more information on this product. It is available by download or you may order the cd.

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Reprinted April, 2006 with permission from Family Review Center.