Home and School Math
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Home and School Math |
Welcome to Home & School! This is Book 2 of the 21st Century Lifeskills
Mathematics series.
The goal of this book and the other books in this series is to build your
confidence and practical math skills. You will use these math skills in
everyday situations throughout your life.
You solve problems and make mathematical decisions every day. You
compare products and make choices about what to buy. You work to earn
money. You decide what to spend and how much to save.
21st Century Lifeskills Mathematics gives you strategies to solve
everyday math problems in a variety of ways. It strengthens your skills
and gives you practice with many different math topics. Each of the six
books presents topics you are likely to encounter in everyday life. Each
book includes problems that involve estimation, equations, mental math,
calculators, and critical thinking. Each book includes additional topicspecific
skills such as graphing, averages, statistics, ratios, and
measurement.
Each unit begins with a preview lesson, which models and explains the
types of problems you will encounter in the unit. Then there are five
lessons, at least one of which is usually a game. Each unit ends with a
review of the unit concepts. There are illustrations and graphic art
throughout.