Testimonials
“I like the idea of parents doing math with their children. Excellent choice of topics.”
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Arizona
“This book is a great resource for parents. I don’t hesitate to recommend it to the parents of my students.”
Middle School Teacher of the Year
and Home School Teacher
“This looks to be an excellent tool for parents to be able to work together with their children to help them grasp the complexities of math. Both should benefit from this book. The practice problems are useful in everyday problems they could encounter.”
Global Head of Executive Development,
Unilever (retired)
“This book is a great tool for refreshing my memory about math facts and for letting me actually help my children with their homework.”
Parent
“This book is a fantastic resource for any parent or teacher. As a teacher of students with learning disabilities, I often have parents requesting resources to help their children. I’m excited to have a math resource that I can suggest that is so user friendly!”
Special Education Teacher
“I have been reading your math book and I think it is great. It covers all of the basics that parents need to know to help their children with math homework. What a great help to teachers. This could end some of those late night calls to our home from frustrated parents. Or those notes the next day saying the homework isn’t done, not because the dog ate the homework, but the parents just didn’t have the math background to help.”
Teacher, Eugene, Oregon
“Math for Puzzled Parents is a wonderful resource to help parents, or anyone who desires to support students in math. It has the best worked out examples of math problems that are incredibly helpful to the person who is working with the student. The tips sections that are located within each concept are very helpful too. I appreciate how clear and straight forward the lessons are, as well as the fact that each page is visually inviting. Some books have too much information on the pages and are confusing to understand. These lessons are clear, concise, and loaded with the right information that helps students and their support person easily grasp the math concepts. Great work on this curriculum! I will recommend it to many of the families that we serve.”
Education Coordinator
| 1 | Numbers | 5 |
| 1.1 | Numbers: The Basics | 6 |
| 1.2 | Reading and Writing Numbers | 9 |
| 1.3 | Prime and Composite Numbers | 11 |
| 1.4 | Powers and Roots | 13 |
| 1.5 | Multiples and Factors | 16 |
| 1.6 | Properties of Operations | 19 |
| 1.7 | Order of Operations | 22 |
| 1.8 | Using Estimation | 24 |
| 2 | Fractions | 27 |
| 2.1 | Fractions: The Basics | 28 |
| 2.2 | Equivalent Fractions and Comparing Fractions | 31 |
| 2.3 | Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers | 34 |
| 2.4 | Multiplying Fractions and Mixed Numbers | 39 |
| 2.5 | Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers | 42 |
| 2.6 | Estimating with Fractions | 45 |
| 3 | Decimals | 49 |
| 3.1 | Decimals: The Basics | 50 |
| 3.2 | Decimals and Fractions | 54 |
| 3.3 | Adding and Subtracting Decimals | 58 |
| 3.4 | Multiplying Decimals | 61 |
| 3.5 | Dividing Decimals | 64 |
| 3.6 | Estimating with Decimals | 66 |
| 4 | Ratio and Proportion | 69 |
| 4.1 | Ratios and Rates: The Basics | 70 |
| 4.2 | Understanding Proportions | 73 |
| 4.3 | Using Proportions to Solve Problems | 75 |
| 5 | Percents | 77 |
| 5.1 | Percents: The Basics | 78 |
| 5.2 | Percent of a Number | 81 |
| 5.3 | Percents and Mental Math | 83 |
| 5.4 | Finding What Percent One Number Is of Another | 85 |
| 5.5 | Finding the Whole Given the Percent and a Part | 87 |
| 5.6 | Discounts and Sales Tax | 89 |
| 6 | Problem-Solving Strategies | 91 |
| 6.1 | Guess and Test | 92 |
| 6.2 | Draw a Diagram | 94 |
| 6.3 | Make a List or Table | 97 |
| 6.4 | Look for a Pattern | 99 |
| 6.5 | Work Backward | 101 |
| 7 | Making the Best of Taking the Tests | 103 |
| 7.1 | Multiple-choice Tests | 104 |
| 7.2 | Beyond Multiple Choice | 109 |
| 7.3 | Interpreting Test Results | 117 |