Go Math! Grade 2 Common Core Edition

This is a very good workbook, and at less than fifteen dollars, a good value. It's a big book with enough material to provide meaningful work throughout the school-year. The pages are printed in high quality and with several colors per page. They contain progressive math concepts that encourage the use of manipulatives and incorporate helpful tools to build number-sense.I homeschool my boys 5 and 6. They had quite a bit of education in math prior to starting with Go Math, and I use this workbook with the 6 year old, and the previous one in the Go Math series with the 5 year old. The "grade 1" workbook is simple enough that any student who is comfortable with "seat work" can be helped to understand it. The "grade 2" workbook is significantly more challenging and would be frustrating for a student that is not particularly talented in math or who doesn't have some experience in math education.I have used math workbooks from Kumon, Sylvan, Scholastic, Comprehensive Curriculum (AEP), Complete Curriculum (Harcourt), DK Publishing, and Brainquest. Go Math is easily the most comprehensive and incorporates the best methods of all of these -- but I would not overlook the use of the others to provide meaningful steps to a complete math education. Importantly, Go Math is marketed to institutional customers, whereas Kumon, Sylvan or even Harcourt's own "Complete Curriculum" are more suited to families wanting to supplement a child's institutional education with some work at home. Kumon and AEP's "Comprehensive Curriculum," both offer books that are suitable for pre-school use.This edition of Go Math is the "Common Core" edition, which I believe means that it's not State-specific. Some State customers like California or Florida may make specific demands of the publisher, but this "Common Core" edition presumably covers the material that is common for students from any state or suitable for any curriculum authority like this Dad.

Hard to find book. Had no issues with my copy. This is the best math book ever in my opinion for helping your child build analytical reasoning skills. You don't just memorize operations, in fact, it teaches you to understand what the heck you are doing, relationships between numbers and you have to think to solve. I use it to supplement what my daughter is learning at school. It is sad that our school systems are not designed to teach good math skills to the majority of children. Those without a good math and education foundation won't be able to work as doctors, engineers, scientists or what have you, and can fall vastly behind as our economy changes. Most of us parents had better be proactive!

I homeschool my kids first year and was very anxious if I miss anything. I bought this book for my 6 year old and she loves it :) I am at peace that everything she needs to know in 2nd grade will be covered. Today she looked at where she was and was surprised that she has done so much of it already! I think you really cannot notice how much work you accomplish - it's a gradual transition from one concept to another. I really like this book.

I am homeschooling this year, and this book is a great addition to give my son extra practice between his lessons that are on our curriculum. This is the same book that his school used when I had him enrolled, so using this helps me to be sure he's keeping up with his former classmates!

Good for practicing more math exercises!!

This book is great, I used with my daughter and her grades improved, it explains things good, has a lot of practice and matches the school program

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It is good to help your child at home.