This first book in the series is focused on mental math. In it, your child will learn to think about abstracting and grouping items in order to make calculations of cost, price, age, and amount.

The concept of the unknown, or typically x, is introduced at the end of this book and will be the first topic in the next book in the series.

• Solving word problems in your head (mental math)
• Understanding the concept of ‘X’
• Solving word problems to divide items into groups
• Using ‘X’ as a placeholder
• Converting from a word problem into an algebra equation
• Solving equations for ‘X‘

This student workbook is designed as the first step to learning Algebra. The key to teaching Algebra successfully is to have a curriculum that is as flexible as possible. A child’s learning capabilities grow and develop constantly so a text that fits perfectly at the start of the school year might not work after a few months.

This curriculum is designed to accommodate the growing and changing maturity of a child throughout the year. In order to teach a child with this curriculum, a parent needs one copy of the Teacher Edition and one copy of the Student Workbook for each child.