Everything You Need to Ace Math in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide by Altair Peterson

Everything You Need to Ace Math in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide Reviews

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  Carlos Guerrero

  Title: Everything You Need to ACE Math in One Big Fat Notebook
  
  Author: Altair Peterson
  
  In this book, you will find different units in each chapter, which mention an important unit in Math. The setting takes place in the writer's middle school math class where the writer is taking notes about what he/she is learning. The different units are: unit 1: the number system, unit 2: ratios, proportions, and percent, unit 3: expressions and equations, unit 4: geometry, unit 5: statistics and probability, unit 6: the coordinate place and functions. The point of view of the writer, is to help other middle school kids just like himself to ACE (pass) Math and to pass this notebook to others to help them ACE the class. I didn't find major characters but there are many word problems with different people in the world problems.
  
  In my opinion, the book was very good and easy to understand. The drawing, colors, pictures and definitions were very helpful and made the book interesting, and gave me many tips to remember especially when I did my own Math homework, I used this book to go back and remember the basic math rules. Each unit mentioned an important unit in Math what we are currently seeing and what we will see in the next trimesters in 6th grade. Each unit had a very interesting tips.
  My favorite unit was unit 1, it allowed me to remember a lot of the Math rules that i had forgotten. I know that for many kids Math is not their strongest subject and that is why I would recommend this book to any new 6th grader, to get a head start in Math and actually enjoy it, just like I did.
  
  -Carlos
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  Leah

  Literally Everything You Need to Ace Math in Middle School/Elementary School. Even some of grade 9 math is in there too.
  
  Great book, very well explained and sometimes makes it fun. Great examples and exercises.
  
  I just realized it literally took me 1 year to finish this book literally on the day lmao it's because I kept putting it down and reading other books and that I was lazy to learn math lol but I'm glad I did! :)
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  Sarah

  Okay, I admit it, I am a big nerd. I am one of those people who actually enjoy math (or maths as the Brits say.) Therefore, I found this comprehensive study guide exciting. It makes me almost miss math classes. This book is full of useful information presented in a succinct and efficient manner.
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  Mavis Ros

  HA. This could have easily been my go-to reviewer if this had still existed during my highschool days.
  
  I wouldn’t have had a problem not rewriting the lessons taught from class on another paper thanks to this.
  
  But I gotta say the creative template behind this book deserves a plus from me. Besides, my siblings enjoyed this way too much for it to be their so-called “other notebooks.”
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  Cheryl

  p. 195 and I've realized how much I miss unit reviews. Sure, every few pp. we get a quiz, and I'm fine on those, but not every bit of knowledge builds on every other and so I'm losing stuff. Also, here on exponents, we've lost word problems... apparently these are not things we use in every day life (which, to be fair, is, in my experience, mostly true, as they're maths shortcuts for huge or tiny numbers).
  
  So, anyway, I've got some nits to pick with this book, but it's still the only one I've found that is neither ridiculously easy or much too difficult for me. I need to review what I should have learned in high school, but I'm starting here. So far (p. 195) so easy but we'll see....
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  p. 248 - finally word problems, and I'm going to get out pencil and paper instead of just using mental math, finally.
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  Ok, that section was actually too easy. Then geometry, which was one of my favorite subjects in HS because I had an Alice in Wonderland themed text and a good teacher, so that was easy
  
  Now I'm in statistics, which should be easy, because I do use this stuff regularly. However, it's a very badly written chapter.
  
  It introduces trickier concepts first, then backs up, and doesn't discuss the new to me concept of 'two-way tables' nearly enough except for a caution of 'read carefully' (but then doesn't say how to read them). It messes up the color coding.
  
  And worst of all, in the brief section about sampling, the examples didn't even explore how to make sure one was getting an adequately representative sample... which we all know now is a huge problem (it's not just white males who have heart attacks, folks!).
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  Ack! I got a few pp on to read the Box and Whiskers section. The first and only example has 10 data points that it claims to put into quartiles. Ok... we can recognize that data from small samples isn't always going to fit nicely.... But then it says that the two points that are largest, that are in the top quartile, make up 25% of the total! I'd just like to see a student say that 2/10 = 25% at any time in class, even now!
  
  Let's hope that when we move on to scatter plots and probability the author remembered to let an editor or at least a beta reader at the material before publication.
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  Ok I'm finally done. Yeah, I could keep picking nits. And there are a few more nice things I could say, too. But, bottom line, if this is the only book of its kind, use it to supplement your assigned text. If you can find a similar book, use that either instead or in addition to this.
  
  I'm not feeling the kind of enrichment that I, personally, expected to. And so I would definitely welcome other suggestions. Do any of you know any middle school or lower level high school 'popular math' books?
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  Zoe

  Super informative and useful. Lovely book all around, especially if you need help with math! :)
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  Tudor Roman

  Perfect!
  
  Simple, but complex. Quick, but presents the basics.
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  Megan Phillips

  This book has every kind of notes someone in middle school would need for math. It's helped my daughter improve so much by studying one chapter a day, and looking through it for notes when she's doing her homework. She hates homework. But she enjoys this book. It's easy, step-by-step notes, 10 questions at the end of each chapter, and answers on the back. Sydney loves that she can check her own answers when she's done working out the problems and finding her own answer, she feels like a teacher 🤓📑
  I highly recommend these books for people that have kids that struggle in any subject they have this one, an American History one, a Science one, and a few others. These books are so helpful!!
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  FOREVER ALONE

  AWESOME for learning math!
  This is a good book for learning math, especially in middle school, and it helped me with graphs (box and whisker plot) and with math strategies. This is also good if you just want to review or test your knowledge of math. Recommendation: Great learning book for kids grade 4+ if you understand fractions and diagrams and plots/graphs. Thanks for reading!
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  Tiffany

  This book accurately illustrates the math I learned in junior high. It does bring back memories and how I used to love math back then (before college when numbers are considered rare, variables everywhere). Love how each page nicely done as if it is someone's notes and the pro tips here and there. A perfect handbook for middle schooler so if you happen to be one, go for this book.
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  Joy Lane

  comprehensive...with answers readily available!
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  Jason Caldwell

  An excellent primer for remembering all the things about math that you forgot.
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  Earline

  Great way to review middle and high school math concepts. Fun and simple illustrations with quizzes at the end of each chapter. I loved it and now want to check out others in this series.
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  Monique Abbett

  Fun way to review basic math concepts!
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  Katrina Wallin

  I suggest all of these books if you are homeschooling or you just want to add extra study time.
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  Yuna Lee

  I personally don’t have any math issues, but I have found this book is a great way to stay in practice with math, I have also found that I can help my sister with math using this book!
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  Woody Chandler

  Well written, but I clearly need to take a course in Geometry.
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  Jana O'Dell

  Absolutely loved this. We are using this book as a base for our homeschool kids and just get extra supplemental things to add with it.
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  Mark Taylor

  Good tool for kids. It.helped me tremendously with the chest math.
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  Aprilleigh

  Given the way math learning usually takes place, I see this volume being useful in one of two ways. First, it could be handy as a review before testing on the specific topic. The student is unlikely to learn the math just from reading through this notebook, but it may serve as a useful review along with their own textbook and notes. Second, it would make a decent reference to some basic math concepts that a student may have forgotten by the time they encounter them again in a higher math course. A solid math student probably won’t benefit from it, but a struggling math student would find the gentle reminder very helpful.
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  Carson Ho

  This is a little weird book for me to review, but I want to say this actually helped a lot with school and is one of my favourites out of the EYNTA books. I loved math already, but this just fueled it with even more love for math, and the back of the book definitely wasn't lying with the back. Learning from this book was genuinely so fun and I sometimes reread this even though I'm not in sixth grade anymore and I am now in Grade 8. I loved learning from this book, and actually got my brain to work on things that we didn't even learn or things that we already did learn! TL;DR, an awesome book if you want to learn some math.
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  Graham Bates

  The Everything You Need to Ace ... series books are great visual helps for students and adults. If you're struggling through high school math, take a look at this one (you should be able to get one from the library) and it will help. It's written with a whimsical bent, so the illustrations are funny but accurate.
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  Lia P

  The smart kid gives you their notebook, I love it
  This book is advertised for middle schoolers, I would suggest to not listen to that advertisement. I been able to use this book for college and work as well if needed be. It’s helpful that you can work out different assignments. You just got to make sure to know the name of the topics you are doing.
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  Son Tung

  Even though I already have a very high score on my math tests, I have little memory of any mathematical terminology in my mind. I felt it lame when someone is approaching and asking for help on their math homework. With this (note)book, I am confident in teaching other people if they are in need.