Math Help
Homeschool Math Help - Adding Decimals October 2, 2012 Xander was struggling in her math book this year. She had been using Spectrum and Evan Moor. This year, we switched to Bob Jones University Press. I saw that the “appropriate” grade level 5 was going to be challenging, but I offered her the choice of 4th and 5th. She chose the challenge. Whew! We started out with some intense place value…including high value (billions, etc.) and DECIMALS!!!!! Fortunately, I found some math help aids online at http://www.math-aids.com/ . I added about 5 pages to the two in her book on place value. She still struggled with certain aspects of the concept, which was evident in her final test, but after a few weeks of pounding the same topic, she needed to move on. AND…we moved on right into the hands of addition with random place values! So, she needs to be able to recognize place value to organize the numbers by their place value in order to ad