Math Refresher for Adults: The Perfect Solution (Mastering Essential Math Skills)

I highly recommend this book for any adults returning to school. I am preparing for nursing school after working for several years in a different profession. I have not studied math in about 30 years and used these books before I took the Accuplacer exam. I did VERY well on the Accuplacer Next – Generation Arithmetic (300/300!) after finishing the book and videos. I am now using it to study for the Math section of the HESI exam. The book is an amazing value. Each section comes with very helpful videos online that you can watch and then use the book to practice what you are taught in the video. The videos are broken down into small sections, so you will not be overwhelmed by the material – it is PERFECT for someone trying to fit in studying math between work and family obligations. After a few videos, you will start to hear Mr. Fisher’s calm voice explaining math to you as you work on the practice problems. I am NOT a natural “math-lete”, but these books actually made me enjoy learning math!

The author does a fantastic review from the ground up with repeated reinforcement of prior learning objectives. Drops you off at the doorstep of the next book which covers algebra in great detail.

Perfect work book. THIS IS NOT A TEXT BOOK. The book provides instructions and resources on where to find the instructions and teaching for the book.This book is great. It is well designed, and easy to read. If you actually go through the book and do all of the problems, it definitely teaches you and helps solidify the math in your brain.I just wanted a book that has math problems in one place. If I don't know how to do the math, I look it up. There is no excuse for anyone to complain the book doesn't tell you how to do it. I know almost anyone buying this has access to the internet. So use your resources, or suck it up.Don't let the bad reviews stop you from learning with this awesome book. You're smart, figure it out.

I waited to review this book until after I finished it so I could see how everything went. I purchased this book because I'm going to be starting school again and I was really concerned about doing College Algebra. It's been so long since I've been in school and math is one of my harder subjects as I mix up numbers and can't remember how to do more complex equations.I loved that this book is very thorough by starting with basic math and progressing to the algebra and geometry portions. This was great as it helped to rebuild my math skills so that by the end of the book I was solving problems with more ease than before I started the book.I didn't really use the videos they said we have access to. First, because I didn't find a video to every lesson, second, if I couldn't understand the concept being taught I looked up videos on YouTube and found excellent help from there.Helpful tip: I also found a fractions calculator online that helped me work through a problem if I couldn't understand where I went wrong.Each page has review exercises that has problems taught earlier in the book. I liked this as it kept things fresh in my mind for how to solve a problem. Then the page had "Helpful Hints." This is where it shows the concept you will be working on for that page and how to solve the problem. It's not super informative, but gives enough that I understood 98% of what was being taught from that section. I only needed outside help from videos a few times. Other than that it was easy to figure out how to complete the problems.Lastly, there are 10 problems you will solve related to the concept shown in the Helpful Hints section. There is a review after each section in the book that goes over all the previous pages for that particular subject- such as fractions- the review page will have 20 questions related to fractions.Finally, after the lessons on page 197-224 are addition practice problems you can do for the algebra portion of the book. Each page has 20 problems you can work out to fine tune your skills.The book ends with a 100 question final that goes over all concepts taught in the book.I gave 4 stars because there were about 4 pages I ended up not being able to do as I didn't understand the concept or it wasn't taught in the book.Overall, this book was a great resource and I feel it gave me confidence to take the next step in my education. I was so impressed I purchased it for my sister as well.

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I'm going back to school (in my 40s) and am preparing to take the ACCUPLACER. I got this book based on its stellar reviews. The workbook, along with the accompanying videos, is not only refreshing my memory of arithmetic, but I'm starting to look forward to completing my exercises each night. At my big age, go figure!

Great questions and amount of them. It covers most of what will be on college placement test. This is also nice for a simple review for SAT lower math segments. However, my complaint is that there are no instructions on how to complete the math questions. So, we use mathhelp and khan for videos, but it would've been nice if they were included.

What ever you do. Don't struggle with not knowing how you are going to pay your tests for your diploma. Use this workbook. For practice work. And, before you know it you will be done.