Math Essentials

Math Essentials (www.americasmathteacher.com)is a math website that provides learning, exercise, evaluation and resource centers. It also provides speed drills along with basic, advanced, pre-algebra, and algebra math.
I had the opportunity to review the basic math course which was geared for 4th and 5th graders. The topics included in the Course 1 were, whole numbers, fractions, decimals, geometry, integers, number theory, algebra, charts and graphs, probability and statistics and word problems. My daughter is just beginning 4th grade and is not at a fourth grade math level at the time of this review therefore, we mainly just tried out the printed exercises for whole numbers. They were pretty thorough and provided plenty of practice. The website also provided quizzes, exams and video lessons. Because of my daughter's level we were not able to take advantage of all the resources provided. I wish that they had a version for students under 4th grade. However, those resources that we were able to use worked very well. The price for the homeschool membership is $195.00 for the year. The education memberships are as low as $1.00 per student. Given all that is included in the membership I thought that was a fair price especially if it is used with multiple students.

*I was given this material free of charge for review purposes only.