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

Strengths

1. Children can do all the written work in the textbook.
2. There is always plenty of practice for each new topic.
3. The check and share parts at the bottom of the page give children the chance to review and talk about what they have just went through.
4. I think that the parts where the textbook gives you a choice on how to solve a problem; "calculator", "mental math", "counters", or "paper pencil" are very useful.
5. I like the many different ways that the chapters end; "practice", "home practice", "math around the world", and "extensions".
6. I like that the book uses a lot of different ways to present each topic, it gives the children a chance to learn and do things their own way.

Weaknesses

1. Some of the activities at the end of the chapter, like music link may not be possible for most teachers to do with their student, maybe they should use activities that are more realistic.
2. The textbook would be more useful if the chapters were arranged in a different order.
3. I don’t like how the addition chapter has subtraction problems in it as well as addition.  I also don’t like how the subtraction chapter does the same thing with multiplication.
4. I think all of the place value items should be put into one chapter.
5. Some pages have too many objects on them the child could get distracted.
6. I do not like how the notion of "greater than" and "less than" is presented, it should be presented with "equal too" and with more explanation than one page and then practice.

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