6th Grade Math Full Year Review Workbook

Your child gets a page of practice, gets stuck on number four, and there is nothing on that page that can tell them why. That is what is wrong with most workbooks, and it is the one thing this one is built to fix.

Thirty three lessons, one for every sixth grade math standard. Every lesson opens by showing the move before it asks a single question.

First a worked example that shows every step. Then a Watch Out box that names the exact mistake that step invites, and prints the wrong answer next to the right one, because a child who has seen the trap walks around it. Then real room on the page to do the work, sized to the problem instead of one thin line under a word problem that needs six.

The answers are the part most workbooks get quietly wrong. Every answer in this book was computed from the same expression the page prints, then checked a second way. Every figure was drawn from the same numbers as its answer and measured before it printed, so a label can never disagree with the picture it sits on. Nothing was typed in by hand.

The problems happen somewhere real. A freight truck hauling dog food into Glennallen, a dip net on the Copper River, firewood stacked by the cord, forty below in January. When the numbers belong to a place, a word problem is something that could actually happen.

What is inside

• 33 lessons, four to six pages each, one for every sixth grade standard
• 68 worked examples that show every step, and 33 Watch Out boxes naming the mistake to avoid
• Ratios and unit rates, percent, dividing fractions, decimals, negative numbers and the coordinate plane, expressions and equations, area and volume and surface area from nets, and a first honest look at statistics
• A complete answer key, every answer computed rather than typed
• A note to the grown-up on every lesson, and a Go Outside task that puts the idea in the yard
• 222 pages, letter size PDF. No calculator, no kit, no login. A pencil and a ruler.

Written by a former Alaska middle school teacher. One license covers one family at home or one teacher and that teacher's own class.