by Imogene Forte, Marjorie Frank
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At last, a comprehensive return to the basics in a fresh and imaginative format. Each of the 16 books in this series presents a carefully researched skills sequence as well as exercises based on age-appropriate, high-interest themes. A coordinated effort
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Basic AND Boring!, 2006-05-27
Since when does a silly cartoon and a few goofy nouns substituted into a VERY conventional problem makes something inventive? This is nothing but a rehash of the same old stuff, and not a very clever one at that. Very dissappointing when the title promises so much more. Don't bother!!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
 Never boring, but just a little too basic, 2002-07-24
Like all Basic Not Boring boots, this introduction to pre-algebra is designed around a theme that kids can relate to -- in this case trekking/camping. Its appeal should be sufficient to sustain the interest of a 6th grader through sections dealing with signed numbers, simplifying expressions, solving and graphing linear equations, ordered pairs, etc. Working at a leasurely pace of one pre-algebra lesson per week, we found the book provided enough material to keep our child busy for most of the school year, capped by a fairly thorough final review test. On the downside, there is too much emphasis on operations involving positive and negative integers, forcing kids to struggle with signed numbers and the mechanics of solving simple equations at the same time. In our opinion, it would have been better to introduce fractional and percentage coefficients to teach kids the magic of inverse operations in isolating variables. Moreover, beware of a number of mistakes in the main part of the book as well as wrong answers in the Answer Key. Nobody's perfect, but in a textbook that's downright embarrassing! To sum up, this book is fine provided you have a sixth grader who can't tell a variable from a valedictorian. It'll wet his or her appetite for algebra. Then, in the 7th grade, start all over again with one of those hardbound 500-page, $50 intros to pre-algebra that provide the real stuff math is made of. Your child will be ready for it.
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