Tough Topics In Decimals

Manhattan Prep’s 4th Edition GRE Strategy Guides have been redesigned with the student in mind. With updated content and new practice problems, they are the richest, most content-driven GRE materials on the market. ​Written by Manhattan Prep’s high-caliber GRE instructors, the GRE Fractions, Decimals, & Percents strategy guide provides an in-depth look at the variety of GRE questions that test this surprisingly tricky area of math. Learn to see the connections among these part-whole relationships as you hone the skills you need to manipulate digits, decimals, fractions, percents, and ratios so that you can implement strategic shortcuts on exam day. Each chapter provides comprehensive coverage of the subject matter through rules, strategies, and in-depth examples to help you build confidence and content mastery. In addition, the guide contains "Check Your Skills" quizzes as you progress through the material, complete problem sets at the end of every chapter, and mixed drill sets at the end of the book to help you build accuracy and speed. All practice problems include detailed answer explanations written by top-scorers!

Fractions and Decimals targets students in the third to fifth grade. The book combines a fantasy style story and beautiful artwork to teach the tough subjects of fractions and decimals. It's a fantasy role playing adventure repurposed for math education. Mild themes of comic mischief keep students engaged in the content. Fractions and decimals are often the point of departure where things become hard for students. Problems become multi-step and even the brightest students struggle to do these problems in their head. This book is an elaborate exercise to rehearse the different steps in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals.

This book is a teacher development tool presenting information to help facilitate discussions of the cases found in a companion book. The introduction discusses the values of case-based instruction, organizing a case discussion group, introducing participants to case discussions, preparing for a case discussion, discussing a case, anticipating and addressing pitfalls, and closing and assessing the discussion. Following the introduction is the main section of the book, which contains facilitator information, including questions and issues, for each of the cases contained in the case book. Appendices include a Case Discussion Process Assessment survey, and methods of obtaining facilitator feedback. Contains 40 references. (MKR)