Brain Quest Workbooks!
Introducing Brain Quest Workbooks! Packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises, and games in every subject. They're clear, they're interactive, colorful, and varied. Information is layered throughout the text. Kids will
write, draw, solve, connect, add hands to the clocks' faces, and color in the fractional shapes.
Six new titles comprise the series, Pre-K through Grade 4; each is a substantial 320-page, full-color book. In addition, each title comes with a pull-out poster, more than 200 stickers, and 100 all-new Brain Quest questions and answers. Even the posters are keyed into the curriculum. For example, in second grade, children study the U.S. states, so the Grade 2 poster will be of the U.S.A., with all capitals, state flags, and state facts.
The primary author for each workbook is an education writer with extensive experience in activity-based learning materials. Additionally, each title is written in consultation with an award-winning teacher from the Brain Quest Advisory Panel specializing in that grade level and its core curriculum.
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Brain Quest Math: Back to the Basics!
- 65% of American elementary school children are less than proficient in math.
- More than 20% of our students cannot do even the basic math at their grade level.
- Kids who are not performing at their grade level by the end of first grade face 8-1 odds against ever catching up.
- America’s elementary school students now rank 12 th in the world in math – and by the time they reach 8 th grade, their rank falls to 19 th in the world! But according to award-winning teachers, parents can help their kids with math in less than five minutes a day.
The award-winning teachers behind the bestselling Brain Quest series have just the right tool with the new, updated Brain Quest Math. Beginning with Grade 1, which is where the building blocks for future math skills are laid, through Grade 2 and Grade 3, Brain Quest Math covers all the essential skills while making learning math fun. It is exactly the supplementary foundation kids need before facing their first national standardized test, which is given in the 4 th grade.
You may ask, how can Brain Quest Math help raise the math IQ of the nation? First and foremost, these decks give children a fun, interactive game for learning the latest curriculum-based concepts. Secondly, the math problems presented serve up high math concepts in an engaging and developmentally appropriate manner. Equally as important, all of the decks meet current federal testing standards. In addition, Brain Quest Math, and its enclosed parent’s guide, will help parents understand the way math is being taught today and give them invaluable ideas on how to incorporate math concepts into daily home life. Brain Quest Math takes the guesswork out of what parents should do to help their kids, and all it takes is five minutes a day.
Brain Quest Math Really Works!
Five minutes a day. Just like reading to a child before bed improves literacy, spending only five minutes each day using Brain Quest Math greatly increases math proficiency.
Brain Quest ® Math spirals through the curriculum. The mix of subject matter keeps Brain QuestMath from becoming rote drill.
Emphasizes creative problem solving. A lot has changed since parents went to school. Now kids are taught that not only is there more than one way to arrive at the right answer, but sometimes there’s more than one right answer. Brain Quest Math emphasizes this critical shift in teaching and creative thinking.
Brain Quest Math gets kids to think. Brain Quest helps develop a child’s higher-level critical thinking skills because the questions rely heavily on visualization. Visualization builds the all-important skill of mental math.
Insight into today’s standards.Brain Quest Math gives parents a window onto what their children are expected to know by using material that dovetails with national testing requirements.
They’re not learning, they’re having fun. The interactive question-and-answer format of these decks makes learning an entertaining activity – one that kids can do independently, or with a sibling, friend, or parent. It’s fun, which is why teachers who are parents use Brain Quest at home as much as they do in the classroom.
Takes the guesswork out of preparing kids for school. Created with the involvement of award-winning teachers, the material covered in Brain Quest Math is the same as what’s covered at grade level.
A launching point for more learning. The nature of the decks and the way they’re used inspire questions to be explained and explored in more detail, opening up new thoughts and ideas.
Immediate feedback. For parents, Brain Quest Math is a great way to assess knowledge and capability because it gives immediate feedback.
Never needs batteries. The same parents who are concerned about their kids’ education are also concerned about their “screen time.” Well, turn it off, because Brain Quest is screen-free and travels anywhere and everywhere.
About Team Brain Quest Math
To ensure that each Brain Quest Math deck lives up to its promise, Workman has assembled a dazzling panel of educators—the best "A" Team of tutors any child could have. In America's army of teachers, this team is the Delta Force or the Navy Seals.
For Brain Quest Math: Grade 1, there's Nikki Salvatico, the Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, 2005. She’s a first grade teacher at General Wayne Elementary, in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Nikki was also recently named to USA Today's all-star team of the best teachers in America.
Tessie Adams Domangue is our guide for Brain Quest Math: Grade 2. Tessie is the 2005 Louisiana Teacher of the Year. She teaches second grade at the Acadian Elementary school in Houma, Louisiana, down in bayou country in Terrebonne Parish. As you might expect, she has performed heroically this year on behalf of her students and their families.
Steven Wyborney , the Teacher of the Year in the state of Oregon in 2005, is the instrumental force behind Brain Quest Math: Grade 3. Steve has taught all elementary school grades at the Nyssa Elementary School in Nyssa, Oregon--located in the poorest county in the state. Five years ago, just 60% of the school's 5 th graders passed the state's math assessment test. This year, 100% of the students passed the assessment test. The difference between then and now is Steve Wyborney.
Congratulations Brian!
Our Brain Quest Win Your College Tuition winner is Brian Truong, a three year old from Renton, WA.
In early Spring 2005, Workman Publishing announced their Win Your College Tuition Sweepstakes. The contest is linked to Brain Quest (the best selling educational question and answer series) by encouraging creative and fun learning.
We received over 60,000 entries and on October 14, 2005 we held our blind drawing--literally--our Children's Editor, David Allender was blindfolded and lead towards the huge piles of entries. He reached in and grabbed the envelope sent in by Kia Truong, mother of three year old Brian Truong.
Brian is the winner of a $150,000 college tuition scholarship to be used at any college of his choice once he turns 17 years old! He hasn't even finished pre-school yet, but he's going to college!
A good story got better once we sat down with Kia and learned a little bit about her life.
In 1975, when Kia was 4, she and her parents, two sisters and a brother, escaped Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. The family spent 17 years in Vietnam. The last two were spent in a refugee camp in order to meet the eligibility requirements to immigrate to the United States. In 1992, an uncle in Washington sponsored the entire family's immigration.
The news of Brian's scholarship was truly a family celebration.
Brian speaks both Chinese and English and like any three year old boy he loves cars and trucks--and the Brain Quest helium balloons he received from Workman.
Kia started a college fund for Brian when he was a baby and is overwhelmed and excited that the Brain Quest tuition sweepstakes have helped secure her college dreams for him. While he's still young, Brian already wants to be a policeman or a fireman when he grows up!
How did a good thing get even better?
Information goes out of date. Countries change their names or borders. Even idioms fall out of current use. Bringing out this 2005 edition of Brain Quest was not only my chance to update all the games, but also my opportunity to make a good thing better.
Just as the world changes, so does the school curriculum. Some subjects may be introduced sooner than they were several years ago; other may have moved up to a higher grade. This new edition of Brain Quest for 2005 mirrors recent changes in the way the three R’s are taught across the country, such as a return to the "basics" in English and math. This led, for instance, to an expanded English strand that now offers a broader spectrum of the language skills children need in the early grades to master reading, writing, and literate speech. In older grades, new standards in math and science led to expansion in those categories as well.
In short, this 2005 edition of Brain Quest is more than an update. The games are more age--and grade--appropriate, more effective as learning tools and a lot more fun for young people to play.
Chris Welles Feder
Brain Quest Author
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