Mastering Essential Math Skills: Book 1, Grades 4-5.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Video recording review)

Mastering Essential Math Skills: Book 1, Grades 4-5. DVD. 6 hrs. Prod. by Math Essentials. Dist. by Victory Multimedia. 2009. $29.95.

Gr 4-5--Richard Fisher, self-proclaimed "America's Math Teacher," has created a series of workbooks that teach foundational math skills, and this DVD is designed to accompany its companion book. The book provides essential practice and review, including a clever speed drill section and helpful hints. Drill and practice, as well as word problems, provide plenty of opportunity to use the skills learned. The DVD's ten chapters cover whole numbers; fractions; decimals; ratios, proportions, and percents; geometry; number theory and algebra; integers; …