Primary Mathematics 2A Workbook

This is our 3rd year of this line of math. I could not be happier with my son's progress. For Kinder I only bought the text and workbooks, for 1st, we bought the whol set with the teacher guide. I didnt use the teacher guide often so I only bought the text and workbook this year. If your kids need more explanations, buy the teacher guides to help you help them. My son is demonstrating a very solid number sense from using this cirriculum. He is often breaking numbers down and coming up with more than one explanation for his answers to problems. We supplemented these with the scholastic 1st and 2nd grade big math book for extra practice. The workbook gives a chance to see how well your child understands what was taught. I generally find a ton of practice is needed on some concepts while others need no extra.The super cheap Scholastic workbools offer an easy way to give extra sheets when needed. You can also print more sheets from pinterest. We also use several math manipulatives and various board and card games to reinforce the concepts being taught. As a spine for a solid foundation in math, I could not be happier.

I love everything about these workbooks. The way the problems are structured allows children to think about math, numbers, and computation in multiple ways. They are pictorial in nature, something that benefits many learners who are visual and/or who don't do well with rote learning. Problems are interrelated and allow the learner to understand the same numbers in different ways. My daughter, who is highly visual and spatial, took to them immediately and began declaring how much more she loves math this way rather than the repetitive sheets of linear math problems at school. My son, who is a more linear, less visual thinker, had to stretch his learning style to work through the problems, but once he figured out how to decode the visual patterns, he took to this style of learning easily. These books provide an alternative vocabulary for mastering math, one that is a nice addendum to work done in school. I cannot recommend them highly enough.

My son has been in public school through the 2nd grade. We decided to home school starting in the fall. He has learned Saxon math at the school he was at and was doing great. A friend recommended Singapore Math, so we did the placement test on their website and he tested almost a full year behind. He loves math and wanted badly to start the 3A book in the fall, so we are supplementing his Saxon at school with Singapore at home. He is so excited about learning. I love that the prep time is minimal. I spend about 15 minutes each night preparing for the coming day's lesson. The books are very colorful and explain the content well. Overall, we are very pleased and will continue to use Singapore products.

It’s a great math workbook for my boys who flourish in this program. New concepts that bring fun and a little bit of games into it to keep it interesting. Brings new concepts wrapped in familiar ones. If you need lots of practice and struggle with math it’s not your best choice.

The book right corner is bent when opened the package. I feel sad because the corner will be teared off quickly.

excellent condition

So glad I was able to find this on amazon. Other publishers charge more and a ton of S&H.

We've only gone through 1/4 of the book (174 pages, no answers) but so far, my child likes it better than 1B. This book contains exercises in:Numbers to 1000Addition and Subtraction (larger numbers than the previous level)LengthWeightMultiplication and DivisionMultiplication Tables of 2 and 3It's broken up into short exercises for each section (number vary in length for each section) and then a review section. It doesn't explain how the exercise is done, which is where the text book probably comes in handy (which I did not buy). My child likes this books because it has exercises that uses the answers in that section to solve some sort of picture problem. For example, color the spaces that contain the answers to figure out which animal is Alice's pet or use the answers to find the path to home. It's a nice way of self checking the work.It has a combination of word problems and non-word problems. Many of the non-word problems incorporate graphics, that aren't necessary to solve the problem, but make the book a little bit more interesting- i.e. the multiplication problem is in the bat and the answer is in the baseball or it uses crabs, ants, stamps, etc to visualize the problem.I only wish it gave an example of how to do the problem (which is what the previous level had), but I'm sure that is what is included in the textbook or parent guide. It's a little bit of the same type of concepts in the previous level, 1B, but the problems are harder.I plan on buying the next book in the series. My child writes directly in the workbook, so it's a one-time use book.