Textbook Review, Grade One
Silver Burdett Ginn
Mathematics: Exploring Your World

Strengths

1. Children can do all the written work in the textbook.
2.  I like how the skills that children learned in the first textbook are reviewed and expanded on in this book.
3. Children get to explore addition and subtraction in both horizontal and vertical format.
4. At the bottom of almost every page, there is a share or check portion, this gives children the chance to review what they were taught on the page.
5. The students start to work with story problems, which help them to think critically about what they are learning.
6. I like how each chapter uses many different learning styles and activities, so that any child should be able to learn the information.

Weaknesses

1. I think it is a bad idea for children to use a calculator at this age and some of the activities in this textbook require for one to be used.  At this age, children still need to become more familiar basic mathematical facts.
2. The order of how items are presented could be arranged differently, for example all of the addition chapters should be together.
3. Some of the information may be too advanced for a first grader to understand.
4. Directions at times are unclear, or at least may be to a first grader.
5. There are times when money pictures are used, which may make children get confused on what operations they should be doing, for example, they use money in the geometry/fractions/probability chapter.
6. Some pages have too many pictures that your eyes sometimes get distracted.

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