Brain Quest Workbook: 3rd Grade: 1 (Brain Quest Workbooks)

Good book, nicely packed and arrived on time.

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Excellent!!

This is one in a series of workbooks, each of which offers an abundance of learning activities, exercises, and games that are presented with superb production values. Appropriate to the given age level, much of the material focuses on basic subjects such natural science, mathematics, history, and social studies while enabling children to strengthen their reading, reasoning, and writing skills. The editors of Brain Quest believe that:"All kids are smart - though they learn at their own speedAll kids learn best when they're having funAll kids deserve the chance to reach their potential - given the tools they need, there's no limit how far they can go!"I agree, while presuming to add that children will learn more and have more fun meanwhile if, when completing various exercises, adults are involved. As a parent of four and a grandparent of ten, I can personally attest to the pleasure an adult will also have. Each volume in the series is a WORK book. Exercises are completed with crayolas or pencils on the page on which it appears. Correct answers are provided. One caveat: Resist the temptation to control the learning process as a child completes an exercise.This volume, Grade 3 (ages 8-9), was written by Jan Meyer, with Anna Shults serving as consulting editor. It is worth noting that Shults was a 2004 National Teacher of the Year Regional Award Winner. The material consists of organized curriculum-based exercises that help children to gain an understanding of spelling and vocabulary, language arts, reading, writing, math skills, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, measurement, time and money, word problems, social studies, and science. Also included are more than 150 stickers, an all-new Brain Quest Mini-Card Deck, and a fold-out "Times Table" poster.Here is a representative selection of exercises:There's an Ant on My Aunt!Complete each sentence with the right homophones. (Page 27)Whatever Do You Mean?Write what you think each highlighted idiom really means. (48)A Native American MythRead the story.[Then] fill in each missing cause and effect. (82 & 83)That's the Point!Read the persuasive paragraph. Then answer the questions.Now it's your turn to write a persuasive paragraph.First think about an issue you feel strongly about.Use some of the persuasive words from the Word Box to strengthen your writing. (124 & 125)Multiplying by OneFind the product of each multiplication problem. (178)Rosie's RestaurantRead each fraction problem.Write the equation in the box.Then write your answer on the line. (214 & 215)It's About TimeWrite the time below each clock.[Next] Answer the questions. (240 & 241)What Came First?Use the time line and your knowledge of history to answer each question.Circle the correct answer. (277)Each of the volumes in this series (pre-K through Grade 4) would be an excellent book for parents, grandparents, and others to purchase and then share with a child at an appropriate stage of her or his development. No doubt there are precocious children who will prefer more challenging material associated with later grades but I think it would be a mistake to rush the learning process. Worse yet, to indicate little interest in it.Congratulations to the Workman Publishing Company and especially to the editors of Brain Quest. How pleased they must be to know that their materials have already helped to nourish so many young minds and to delight so many young hearts and, fortunately, will continue to do so for the development of other children in months and years to come

The book is great, but I didn't notice I was ordering a used one. The price I paid was on-par with a brand new one in stores. My fault completely, so it's not worth a bad rating, but a heads up to fellow shoppers to double-check you're ordering a new one (if that's what you're on the hunt for!). Unfortunately, ours has some pages already completed, which kind of defeats the purpose of ordering a workbook.

I love all these books (I use them since the JK) and my daughter could always learn a lot with them! I can't wait to start the Brain Quest 3 next year! It arrived much before the expected date perfectly packed!

Delivered as expected

Nice book for kids for the age group in India for age group 9to 10 years or 3 to 4th class

This book is so well designed! We have planned to complete about 5 pages a day in order to complete the book by the end of the summer. My son loves math, so I'm not too surprised that he is devouring the Fractions section, a new subject for him. He struggles with writing, so we hang out in the hammock while he works on Spelling & Vocabulary pages, Reading pages (which require writing to respond to), Writing pages, and Literary Arts pages. This is so much better than just sitting in front of screens trying to accomplish schoolwork online. He's enjoying it! And we can snuggle together while he works on it.I am impressed with how well the pages are thought through. For instance, after a Spelling page (where he circles the correct spelling of a word in a sentence), at the bottom are boxes for different "short a sounds" and "short o sounds", etc, with corresponding lines for how many vocabulary words have those sounds in them. At the bottom of the boxes it show the various spellings that can create those sounds ("a" "ea"). This was designed so well, I have no issue pointing out the parts to him and pushing him to do a little extra work to complete the page. Usually, when I try to explain "well usually we pronounce it this way, this time we pronounce it this other way..." and I just end up saying "English is confusing." This book is great. I highly recommend.