At a Glance:
Product: Daily Word Problems Grade 1
Publisher: Evan Moor
Grade Level: 1
Teacher Prep: Minimal
Uses: Math Supplement
Rating: 4 out of 4 golden pencils
My shelves are filled with Evan Moor workbooks. I feel Evan Moor offers high quality educational materials which reach a vast range of learning and education styles. I have used Evan Moor products to enhance many subjects from science to math to history. As with my previous review on Daily Word Problems for Grade 5, I also had the opportunity to review Daily Word Problems for Grade 1. My first grader is actually a kindergartener who is fairly advanced in math. I was not sure if she would grasp all the concepts of this book but pleasantly I was surprised to see her progress.
Mathematic skills in Daily Word Problems for Grade 1: (from site)
addition and subtraction facts
column addition
2- and 3-digit addition and subtraction
counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s
reading and interpreting graphs and charts
reading and writing numbers and number words
fractions
time
money
measurement
Features: (from site)
Each week of problems for first grade centers on a different animal. Accurate facts about the animal are presented to make the problems more realistic.
36 weekly sections
Each week’s problems center on a theme, creating more meaningful and interesting practice
Monday through Thursday contain a one- or two-step word problem
Friday’s format is more extensive and may require multiple steps, and may involve a chart or graph
What I liked:
As with the 5th grade book, I liked the set up of having daily word problems. My daughter loves this book and wanted to do a full week in one day. She asks daily to use this workbook. I was quite surprised how well she began to learn concepts beyond her and put together how math is used in real life. I attribute that to having a brilliant daughter. Now, my unbiased nature also attributes that to how nicely Even Moor sets up word problems and keeps to a weekly theme. This truly helps the child visualize and conceptualize math in a real scenario. The weekly build up of skills finally ending in a more advanced problem is a nice way to reinforce the lessons while showing what the student knows and building on what the student knows.
What I did not like:
Well, gee…nothing. What is there not to like? It is a nice supplement to your daily math time. It reinforces what the child learns and draws a concrete line from math on paper to math in real life. In my previous review for the 5th grade I mentioned I would have liked to see more daily problems. However, for this grade I think one a day is perfect.
Disclosure: As a member of Timberdoodle’s Blogger Review Team I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a frank and unbiased review.