Essential Prealgebra Skills Practice Workbook
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This math workbook, authored by Chris McMullen, Ph.D., is focused on essential prealgebra skills. It includes examples, plenty of practice problems, answers, and full solutions to most problems. Topics include:
- order of operations; PEMDAS
- fractions, decimals, and percents
- exponents and square roots
- a beginning introduction to working with variables
- ratios and rates
- negative numbers
- other prealgebra skills
The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this workbook of the Improve Your Math Fluency series to share his strategies for applying arithmetic and prealgebra skills.
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Snehashish S. –
Great book
NING L. –
If you are looking for a book that works step by step with a good amount of explanation, rather than just throw questions to your kids, this book is for you.
Darrell B –
I can honestly say I hated algebra back in my sophomore days. I understand why we have to learn algebra it’s a everyday life also it go along with geometry, an linear graphing, all it takes some practice to fully understand it.
Cooki M –
Great book to help grandson over the summer with algebra a big help
Emily Watson –
My son is working through this book along with his distance learning and he likes it.
SDW1979 –
Homeschooling treasure!! It simple for both my 7th grader and myself (haven’t looked at this kind of stuff since high school)
C.J.C. –
Wanted to start a thorough Algebra review -going back to school – new career…and it’s been years. This book is great- very thorough and lots of practice exercises.
ERICA BECK –
I love now this book gives you a lesson with explanations and examples before you begin. Far better than Kumon books which lack that. Lessons are broken down in manageable segments and the answer key not only gives you the answer, but shows the work. What a great way to teach your kid, but also have them to be able to independently check their answers and contrast to theirs and troubleshoot if need be. I will be ordering more of the authors books because it makes life and learning sooooo much easier.
Jose –
Ideal book for beginners. Easy to follow and clear instructions.
Mindy cobb –
This was easy for my 7th grader to do on his own for homeschool. Easy examples
Noelle Bonneannée –
The best. Simple and straightforward. Better than any textbook. I’m using this to teach my 6, 9, and 11 year olds.
Kritter –
The book does an excellent job explaining how to do the problems and then gives plenty of problems to practice on. It is organized into 10 chapters that are each split into 6-10 sections. The answers are in the back of the book. Love this book!
Dr.SHYJU –
An excellent book for year6/7.very helpful
Shannon –
I bought this book for my son to keep him going through the summer. It was late, but the book itself has lots of room inside so that you can have your child show step by step how they solved it. If it had been on time, I would have given it 5 stars.
liz –
It’s a great book that matches 4th – 6th grader’s level.
matthew j armstrong –
Great book for anyone learning for the first time or reviewing prealgebra.
P^S –
A handy book with all PreAlgebra concepts in one convenient format. Quickly learn and practice all relevant concepts. However for additional practice, one would need other resources. Recommend this book. Very satisfied.
Chet Sanders –
This book provides a great step by step refresher with easy to follow examples and exercises. I have purchased three (3) other books by the author.
pickle –
Great book for teaching my 7th grader. Concepts are well explained and with direct examples. Wish there were a companion book of extra practice problems. Answers are also written out long form for student to follow. Excellent book. I’ll be buying other books from Chris McMullen for my children.
erica –
its a good book untill you get stuck at 7.1 and nothing on the internet explains it any better
Michelle Kelly –
Really great quality, it has a glossary, answer key, and it also explains and includes examples, for any problem you might not know yet. Great for practice, and also learning. (This is 8th grade math).
German Bobadilla –
The writing is pretty straightforward, and for a 38yo who hasn’t seen math in like 15 years that’s a lot to say.
stayone –
I ended up not needing it so I returned it. But it looked good.
Nikki –
I have an 8th grader that has struggled tremendously in math since 4th grade. She operates somewhere around a 6th grade level but can fall behind even that sometimes. She is absolutely capable of learning and retaining information. She’s very smart and a hard worker. She has just never been taught in ways she understands. She has extreme social anxiety that affected her ability to focus on learning in social settings. And she hasn’t been able to work at her own speed, feeling free to speak up and say she doesn’t understand something or ask for help. Most of the teachers would embarrass her by moving her out into the hallway because she was holding up the class by being so slow. 🙁 Her spirit was mortified and broken. Public school was not working for her. She has been homeschooling for a almost 2 years now and is proudly working at an 8th grade level as she should be: even if it takes her longer to do her work, or even if we need to do “only the even numbered problems” for the day. She has Attention Deficit Disorder and I needed a resource that not only kept things short and sweet, straight to the point, but also explained it thoroughly enough that I wasn’t spending hours myself researching and doing problems before having to teach it to her. I am a little rusty, after all. Heh. She works really well in short periods of time with straight forward instructions in an organized manner. This book does it ALL. I have purchased many books and was actually pretty happy with the last book we used, but the amount of reading it required overwhelmed her. She worked through it but was totally burned out.. This book is organized so well. I won’t ramble on about it because these other reviews have said it much better than I could have, but do yourself a favor and get this for your junior high student. Or for yourself or someone you love that enjoys math. I like it so well that I am not allowing her to write directly into the book so I can use it for my (advanced) 5th grader when she’s ready. Haha, cheap skate! I will absolutely be purchasing his Algebra book as well. I feel like she will have a much more solid foundation in math if she does return to public school in the future. (Not likely because why?) And if not, then she will pass her GED and go straight into college with her head held high, knowing math won’t weigh her down anymore.. thanks, Chris! We are totally fans.
Placeholder –
Ideal for kids who are homeschooling. Hard to find a book that covers pre-algebra skills so carefully and precisely. Appreciate how well the author has structured this book. Recommend for all parents who wish their kids to enjoy math.
Mia O. –
Definitely recommend this book, the author made sure to provide a lot of details. Worth to the investment the material is great.
rafael –
I like
Cee –
I struggled with Algebra all through high school. Decided to start off with Prealgebra before the real torment of Algebra. So far so good. No tears yet!
D. Fugett –
The book arrived in great condition. I am looking forward to refreshing my math skills.
Ericka Freeman –
I really thought I could not understand math at all. Had put off going to finish my degree due to being afraid of math but this book explains it to me in such detail that At 53 y/o I am finally able to understand and it’s builds my confidence. This is a awesome resource for anyone that struggles.
Sally –
Answers for each and every problem.
Excellent, clear explanations and examples.
Perfect for middle school and high school.
A. Edwards –
As a public middle school teacher who has suffered through some of the worst educational “reforms” to curricula during the last few decades, I have been seriously frustrated by the latest Common Core “improvements” which are anything but. The textbooks I am given are an embarrassment with anorexic explanations, little practice for the students and insulting, overly scripted extra pages in the teaching editions that make them three times the size of the OED! In an effort to find a basic compendium of good, road tested problems to use to beef up the sad resources I was given, I came across these. They are not flashy, but I have so appreciated being able to use the exercises quickly and easily without having to come up with my own or carry around another mammoth textbook The content is also distilled down to the most important concepts necessary for success in Algebra, leaving statistics, probability, and transformational geometry for another life. I only hope that the next iteration of curricula decides to get back to the basics of arithmetic as the foundation for everything else!!
Henry Lee –
It covers a good amount of subjects before a child starts algebra.
Vermont Mom –
I homeschool and have not one clue about algebra. This book easily taught my son everything. He needed no help. Easily explained. Easy to comprehend examples. The best of this type of book I have found and I’ve tried a lot! You need this. Kid can learn it with no help from you.
Leticia Diffee –
Muy buen libro para hacer los ejercicios.
P Wallace –
Happy to receive and give as a gift
The Painter –
Found I was having some difficulty making solutions for my garden, so purchased this for a refresher. It does that, but mostly it was a lot of fun solving the math problems. Answers are in the back pages so it’s easy to check yourself. I’ll be going through the entire book just to have the enjoyment of doing the problems.
Angel moore –
I definitely enjoyed this book, I am studying for my GED test and math has always been a foreign language for me so I purchased this book and it explains and breaks down so well and makes it so understandable only one issue I had was I felt like there could of been more problems to solve in each subject so it really sticks in memory before moving on to next chapter and forget the 10-13 questions on previous chapter so you have to return back for reference and basically figure it out all over again!
KassieWiseman –
I have tried multiple things to help my kids with math. This has been, hands down, the best workbook we’ve ever used. His explanations are straightforward and clear. His examples actually help my kids understand how to solve the problems underneath. My oldest has struggled with math for years (previously in public school, now homeschooled) and he LOVES this book. Highly recommend!
Susan –
My Granddaughter was struggling with Algebra, and actually failed last semester. I was a drill master, over Christmas Break, and she worked this entire book. She’s making ‘A’s’ now. Thank You
Dottie Wilson –
I’ve been teaching from AOPS (Rusczyk), and my students struggle with the scarcity of problems that teach basics. AOPS problems add depth to understanding once a student is AT mastery level, but more performance level problems are needed to attain that. McMullen’s book provides that. It’s wonderful and can stand on its own as an excellent textbook to more than adequately prepare students for Alg 1 and Alg 2. What a great find.
Grass_Tiger –
it’s good for review, but because it presents one concept per page (or two) and then you do the related practice, there is no review of what you’ve learned at all later in the book. So, if this is just your review book, it’s ok. I just put a star at the top of pages where I’ve found a concept I don’t fully understand so I can come back to it later and a checkmark if I’ve mastered it. This way I can come back and review on my own. I’d recommend some sort of text as your primary book or this would be just fine if you learned this all years ago and just want to review. I wanted to be sure I’ve mastered everything, before working on Algebra again. What would make this perfect is if there were review sections scattered throughout and in the answers for the review have the page number where the concept was presented so we can go and review it again. This way we don’t just get into a grove of doing the practice, but not actually remembering it which is so easy to do with this format. It wouldn’t take that much to add this and take this from being an ok book to a great book, albeit a bit thicker. There’s only about 150 pages of sections of instruction and questions, but the answers in the back give full solutions to all questions unlike many books out there.
Update: I just finished this book. It was great for just a couple pages a night before bed each night. There weren’t as many questions in some sections as I would have liked. At least one section only had two problems to do. So, a few more would be nice and at least some quiz sections periodically or something to be sure you didn’t forget something you covered. Now that I’ve finished this book, I am going to go back through with a separate sheet of paper and rework all the sections I didn’t quite understand before. I like the breadth of the sections in this book. It doesn’t cover any geometry which would have been nice, but it covered more than I thought it might for a book that only covers the “essentials”.
Sometimes he only shows one way of doing things and it takes longer than another way I know, but I practiced his way since very occasionally it was quicker and gives me another tool to use–another reason to use more than one learning resource. With it’s fully worked answers in the back, if you don’t understand something, you can figure out where you went wrong which was wonderful. Also, I found all his explanations in each section easy to understand and do on my own.
Recommended. I’ve already bought a couple of his other workbooks, though I might not write in the books so that reviewing sections later is easier. If there had been adequate review sections that wouldn’t have been so necessary. Again, these aren’t reasons not to buy, but a way the author could make it even better.
I learned about these from “The Math Sorcerer” channel on YouTube
H. Serrano –
So, I’ve gotten books like this before for my son to practice his math, but this one shocked me. When I went to School many decades ago, I would complain about how they would give me one perfect example for the kind of problems they wanted me to work out, but then there were exceptions and other types of problems that required a little different solution to work out. This book shows you an example and how to solve step by step every type of problem you will encounter in the worksheet. The examples are right at the beginning of the worksheet. It’s not a textbook it’s a Tutorial Book. It gets right to the point and shows you exactly how to work out every type of problem you will encounter in the practice sheet. No need to guess or figure it all out like a high school textbook. Every math textbook should be written like this.
Cat –
Great book !! I wish all teachers taught this way thank you!!
Anibal Rodriguez –
This book is excellent in its content which is simply explained and easy to follow. My purpose is to study algebra, trigonometry, geometry etc. The fear of math for me was paralyzing and lead to poor grades, the math text books I had may had been written in Martian. You are the teacher I needed but never had. Math is done by instructing the student. Teach why and what is squaring and why not just go through a bunch of paces and expect magically your student to understand. Some people just have no business teaching math. BTW I’m 73 years old making up the math I feared. I’m slaying the Math Dragon that devoured me as a youth.
Carlos –
This was recommended by math tutor, great supplement.
Barry –
I used this very well priced textbook to teach my son pre-algebra. The author provides clear instruction/explanation and provides useful examples before offering problems for the student to solve. Highly recommend for homeschoolers and students needing additional tutoring.
SH ENG –
I was struggling to teach my 10 year old son about equations. I’m preparing him for math competitions and such. I was printing out random worksheets online. It was a struggle teaching him the concepts. Now this book was a total game changer. It’s so much easier to teach him. His math knowledge is exceeding anyone 2 years older than him, and only getting better. This book makes it so easy.
There are brief, useful examples for each concept. There are references to previous examples when things get more complicated. Every single question is given an answer and explanation, and there are lots of questions. I found that some other books go too much into theory and explanation, which is hard for a kid to digest. This way is better. The author really thought about the best way to present the topics and explain them concisely. I ended up buying two of his other math books, and my son is breezing through them.
I’ve tried other brands, like Spectrum. This one is better. It’s easier to understand and follow, which is the goal. I wish Chris McCullen wrote something on probability; I got something else for that, and it’s a bit of a slog and requires more of a hands-on approach from me to train my son.
Zach –
Combined with guidance from an instructor this workbook is an extremely useful resource for learners new to the material and equally so for those reviewing it.
R. Pollack –
I’m using this with a 16-year-old I’m tutoring who lacks many, many math skills. He is supposed to be taking Algebra I, but it was waaaaay over his head. This workbook will get us to where he needs to be without my writing new problems for him every time we meet. We’ve skipped a couple of pages that were too detailed (fourth roots of numbers, for example) for us at the moment.
Alan Altima –
I like how Professor McMullen writes. It’s like having a great math teacher right with me all the time.
William A Rivera –
Buen contenido
Kostiantyn –
Hat mir geholfen meine Algebra Skills auszubessern.
Jottings from Janet –
I teach 7th-12th grade maths at a small private school. Several of my pre-algebra students were struggling, so I needed to get them extra work for more practice. I’m pleased with this book. Explanations and additional practice is provided.
Jenn –
We are working a bit ahead in math; this book does an excellent job laying out fundamental pre-algebra and beginning algebra concepts in a logical, build-upon-itself concept.
It does not have the built-in review aspect characteristic of some other texts such as Saxon, but the explanations are better detailed and better laid out.
Grace Duckworth –
Great source for any parent or grandparent to help their middle schooler with homework.
R L Kelly –
PROs: Answers in the back of the book. Tons of practice. Adequate examples. Not confusing. Thorough. Concepts built in an organized ascending order. No frills- just the drills! Great for adults like me who need gentle reviews. Great for students who may have a need for systematic instruction in prealgebra. Many students have gaps in instruction and just need continuity to bridge the gaps. Parents need the review as well. Use the answer key in the back of the book to assist in learning.
CONs: It’s drill. Drill. Drill. No frills, just the drills. Sometimes I skipped drills or just did odd numbers… Because there are a LOT of practice and it gets to be too many problems that are similar. And no illustration or jokes to make it a bit easier for students to keep motivated.
Overall you and your student will learn that prealgebra forward and backward.
Joshua –
This book is very informative to new and reviewing students.
Lulu_n2 –
bought this for my 8th grader to review before starting algebra, ultimately retuned it, as the content looked a little basic…could be a great book if that’s what you’re looking for, I’d say it looks more like a 6th grade review….pre-prealgebra. For context, my 8th grader homeschools, using a mostly video/on-line program, and with math I wanted her to have some pen-paper application, so I was looking for a review before starting algebra I.
Veronica Holder –
The book was very helpful! Helped with my algebra class.
Connie Plunkett –
Easy to understand.