Spectrum Math, Grade 3

Having gotten a little behind in math during 3rd grade, my kid worked from this book every other day for 6 weeks during summer break. He usually did 2 or 3 half or quarter pages at a time so it wasn't overwhelming (usually a half page from addition, a half from subtraction, and a half from multiplication). He is definitely a lot further ahead than if we had done nothing, and I see that he is breezing through his first several math assignments in 4th grade. This book seems to include material from every math topic studied during 3rd grade. It includes a test after each chapter and a comprehensive mid-book and end of book test.

This book is a very good review of 3rd grade math for kids to use over the summer. I offered to buy it for my kids' parents (I'm a 3rd grade teacher), and 5 took me up on it. Kids lose so much over the summer, it kills me to think of how much they have to relearn in 4th grade. Get this, or the newer version, and USE it. Parents have no idea how much re-teaching has to be done in September and October due to the learning loss over the summer.

I am an 8 year old and my mom got this for me. I tried it out and I definitely think you should get this. This book teaches fun and interesting lessons that can help you work well in school. But if you feel very advanced, (which I found out I was) you should try the grade 4 math book.

This is an excellent homeschool tool. Every other math book I found for my third grader did not review or teach the concept before going into the exercises. This book offers a pretest, explains the steps of the concept, has a few pages of exercises and then quizzes them on what they've learned. Spectrum is my go-to line of workbooks for homeschooling.

Each summer, we purchase review workbooks for our kids. Unfortunately, most of the time, they are too easy or too hard. Finally, one that reviews skills they were actually taught during the previous school year!

I was specifically looking for things that were NOT Common Core. The red and blue seal on the covers of these in the pics here were replaced with big black and white COMMON CORE seals on the editions I received. My problem with Common Core is that I don't believe learning could be made any harder or unintuitive.The problems could not be made more confusing. If you're looking for a natural, logical and straightforward way to teach a child math, THIS IS NOT IT.

This book is an outstanding book to help teach your children math the real way minus the use of common core math. This for the most part is good old fashioned math the way it should be taught. I highly recommend this book to any student. We have used the 2nd and 3rd grade book from this company and will be using the 4th and 5th grade books soon enough.

I purchased this book 1 month before my daughter had standardized testing. We worked through the book and few days and she really enjoyed it. It covered everything that we had in our year but in a shortened form. After picking her up from her test she said that she knew several of the questions because they were similar to the ones from her "Practice Test" I have used Spectrum Prep books for 4 years now and have no reservations about making another order in January of next year.

We are using this in addition to our math curriculum for practice. Like the other spectrum books, this is clearly set out, has engaging exercises and is enjoyed not just tolerated.