Middle & Upper Grades

This workbook includes a variety of problem-solving strategies to help students master essential math skills.

The Word Problems Quick Starts workbook progresses from basic to challenging and requires students to use a variety of problem-solving strategies and mathematical reasoning, such as working backwards, guess and check, drawing a diagram, and more. Topics covered include whole numbers, decimals, fractions, percents, money, measurement, geometry, and more. Each page features two to four quick starts that can be cut apart and used separately. The entire page may also be used as a whole-class or individual assignment.

The Quick Starts Series provides students in grades 4 through 8+ with quick review activities in science, math, language arts, and social studies. The activities provide students with a quick start for the day's lesson and help students build and maintain a powerful domain-specific vocabulary. Each book is correlated to current state, national, and provincial standards.

A really practical application of math. Each book includes activities such as reading comprehension, filling out forms, using a glossary, and answering math word problems.

The multi-step word problems cover adding and subtracting money, multiplying and dividing money, figuring percentages, working with large numbers, and more. This life skills program will help students master math skills that are essential to everyday life! Each book includes an answer key.

Students will gain hands-on experience practicing the math they will use in the real world. The realistic activities in this series will teach students about paying bills, keeping a transaction register, filling out a credit card application, shopping online, using a debit card, making and keeping to a budget, shopping for the best buy, and so much more!

This language arts tutorial book engages middle school students while they refine important skills.

Language Arts Tutor: Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation for fourth–eighth grades helps students master the following concepts:

• parts of speech
• capitalization
• punctuation

This Mark Twain language arts book uses stories, games, and riddles to appeal to students at various learning levels.

Language Arts Tutor: Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation focuses on one skill at a time to help students build proficiency and confidence. Each page includes clear definitions and examples to explain the concept being reinforced. Written for teachers, parents, families, and students, you can use this Mark Twain middle school book as a full unit of study or for individual lessons to supplement other books.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects, including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

Challenge capable students while also helping those who need extra Pre-Algebra practice.

Topics in this middle school math book include these fundamental algebra skills:

• integers
• fractions and mixed numbers
• decimals and estimation
• graphing
• ratios
• percents
• rational numbers
• square roots

This comprehensive resource supports NCTM standards and also includes practice pages, assessment tests, reproducible grid paper, and an answer key.

Features:

• Answer Key

Facilitate a smooth transition from arithmetic to algebra for students in grades 7 and up using Helping Students Understand Algebra.

This 128-page math book includes step-by-step instructions with these resources:

• examples
• practice problems using the concepts
• real-life applications
• a list of symbols and terms
• tips
• answer keys

The book supports NCTM standards and includes chapters on these topics:

• number systems
• properties of numbers
• exponents and expressions
• roots and radicals
• algebraic expressions
• graphing
• functions

Features:

• Answer Key

Help students build strong language arts proficiency with daily skill-building activities.

The Grammar Quick Starts workbook reinforces grammar skills related to parts of speech; singular and plural nouns, pronouns, and verbs; capitalization; punctuation; word usage; and sentence structure. Activities include fill-in-the-blank, short answer, true/false, identifying the correct parts of speech, and sentence writing practice. Each page features two to four quick starts that can be cut apart and used separately. The entire page may also be used as a whole-class or individual assignment.

The Quick Starts Series provides students in grades 4 through 8+ with quick review activities in science, math, language arts, and social studies. The activities provide students with a quick start for the day's lesson and help students build and maintain a powerful domain-specific vocabulary. Each book is correlated to current state, national, and provincial standards.