McGraw -Hill’s Top 50 Math Skills For GED Success
McGraw -Hill’s Top 50 Math Skills For GED Success
Written for the millions of students each year who struggle with the math portion of the GED, McGraw-Hill’s Top 50 Math Skills for GED Success helps learners focus on the 50 key skills crucial for acing the test.
From making an appropriate estimate and solving for volume, to interpreting a bar graph and identifying points on a linear equation, this distinctive workbook from the leader in GED study guides features step-by-step instructions; example questions and an explanatory answer key; short concise lessons presented on double-page spreads; an appealing, fully correlated pretest and computational review of basic skills; application, concept, and procedure problems; and more.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Great Book
This book gets down to the nitty gritty and presents a great overview of math.
5 Stars to the point
This is a great book for teachers, tutors and study groups. The book is obviously made up of fifty skills. Each skill is only a couple of pages long and offers practice with GED style questions. I like the book because the small bits of information make a quick review for students. A student can do one skill a day or a week and know exactly how much is left. I also like the book as an introduction to what students actually need. All too often students are overly concerned with fractions and not concerned enough about word problems and problem solving. The book keeps word problems and GED specific problem solving front and center in each skill.
5 Stars Excellent Math Base
I bought this for my teen two years ago as he struggled with the math portion of the GED. He ended up scoring in the top 99% on that portion of the test; I am sure this book was at least 75% responsible for that.
We approached his work in this book on a daily basis: one top skill a day for 50 days. Now, two years later, I’ve purchased a copy for my other teen. She’s a wiz at math, but I want her to keep her math skills in check as she works more on the areas she is weaker in for the GED.
(Incidentally, both my kids have opted out of high school, instead choosing to attend college at the ripe old age of 16. I’ve heard it’s a trend in some school districts. With the number of calls I field from interested parents, it seems that it may become a trend here too.)
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