Brain Quest Workbook: Grade 3 (Brain Quest) | 
 enlarge | Author: Janet A. Meyer
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 8.2 x 0.8
MPN: 14916
ISBN: 0761149163
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9780761149163
ASIN: 0761149163
Publication Date: July 9, 2008
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Product Description
Echoing Brain Quest's lively design and unique silhouette, each workbook is a bright, kid-friendly invitation to delve into schoolwork with pleasure. The books are jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises, games, and challenges in every subject, but with a special emphasis on the core competencies of math and language skills. They're clear, they're interactive, colorful, and varied. Information is layered throughout the text. Kids will write, draw, solve, connect, add hands to the clocks' faces, and color in the fractional shapes. Six titles comprise the series, Pre-k through Grade 4; each is a substantial 320-page, full-color book. In addition, each title comes with a pull-out poster, more than 200 stickers, and 100 all-new Brain Quest questions and answers. Even the posters are keyed into the curriculum?in second grade, children study the U.S. states, so the Grade 2 poster will be of the U.S.A., with all capitals, state flags, and state facts.
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How to get young brain cells to prance August 2, 2008
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 speed
All kids learn best when they're having fun
All 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 Myth
Read 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 One
Find the product of each multiplication problem. (178)
Rosie's Restaurant
Read each fraction problem.
Write the equation in the box.
Then write your answer on the line. (214 & 215)
It's About Time
Write 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
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