School Zone Big Math 1-2 Workbook: 320 Pages, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, Elementary Math, Addition, Subtraction, Word Problems, Time, Money, Fractions, Ages 6 to 8

Love this book, starts super easy and gets harder as it goes, very easy for a child to learn with!

I love these books so much. It’s an affordable way to homeschool your child. They are interactive and fun for my 5 year old. I will say, I don’t know if my child is just ahead of the curve but, she is a kindergartner on a first grade level in these books. I had returned the Kindergarten book for “Big Reading”, “Big Math”, “Big Spelling” etc. which is said to be on an 1-2 grade level. They fit her skill level much better. It is a great “problem” to have 😄 I considered getting the comprehensive 1st grader book from this line but decided to try that from a different brand. These help supplement it wonderfully. I will recommend to other first time homeschool moms and I will buy the following books in this series.

I am homeschooling my first grader this year. We are 50 pages into this book and I am loving the pacing and I am excited to move on to different kinds of math (money, time, fractions, multiplication). This book is so thick, it provides a lot of practice with the skills presented. We are supplementing with videos and I will be buying another book on said skills to continue practicing them them once we finish this book.

My girls love doing these workbooks! We spend 30 min every night working on this workbook!

This book is colorful and nice quality, but I cannot understand the order of this book. A third of the way through the book there are worksheets on counting money, for example one question is "get to 92 cents using the fewest number of coins possible." Then two thirds through the book, they ask you to write numbers in sequence by ones "ex., 8, 9, _, _, _,". I don't understand how it makes sense to work through this book in order, asking kids to count coins (sometimes having to carry the one when adding), learn to tell time by the quarter hour (so having to add by 5's), and doing fractions, then going backwards to basic math halfway through the book (ex., 4+0=?), then two thirds through the book doing single number sequencing and grouping by tens and ones. After flipping through the book we are doing it out of order and it's going fine now, but when we were just going through it in order it made absolutely no sense.

I homeschool. I do Saxon Math for the older grades, but THIS workbook is PERFECT for the advanced/older kindergartner through a kind of behind second grader. It is SUPER cute. I LOVE the fun illustrations. It covers ALL the math info a kid would need in that age range. My 8-year-old daughter is really smart. But I pulled her out of kindergarten a few years ago. And she was really stubborn with me and didn't do what I asked. She played A LOT. Some people think it's great to let kids play in that age range, anyway. So, now that I am MAKING my kids sit down and do their assignments, I have found that she doesn't know her very basic math facts, even. She is about a K-1st grade level in math. She loves this book. My son younger than her is advanced for his age and he also loves working out of this book. He is in 1st grade now. This book covers everything they need to get them ready to start working out of the "Saxon Math Intermediate, Grade 3" text book. I use the one with the picture of the bicycle on the front cover. When the child is finished with that one, then go directly into "Saxon Math 5/4." When the child is done with that book, he is ready to go straight into the "Saxon Math Algebra 1" book. Or, your smart third grader can just start right at Saxon Math 5/4. Then for 5th grade, he can do Math 8/7. THEN go right into Algebra 1 the next year. Edit: Today is July 5th 2020. I still love these books. But I put my kids directly into the old Saxon Math 5/4 textbook when they graduate from this workbook. I also have my kids practice math facts at: w w w dot xtramath dot com.

Helping my grand with his math

My daughter is homeschooling and using another curriculum for math. We finished early so I purchased this book for extra practice and it had different approaches to math skills that made some concepts she was struggling with click. I loved this book and feel like it made her stronger in her basic math skills.