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Beast Academy 3A Math Guide
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000517
ISBN
9781934124406
Grade 4-5
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Medium Teacher Involvement
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Description
Beast Academy 3A is the first set in the four-set series for Grade 3. Guide 3A delivers complete lessons to the students of Beast Academy in an engaging comic-book style.
Beast Academy 3A covers the following topics:
- Shapes: Angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, other polygons, puzzles with polyominoes.
- Skip-Counting: Patterns with repeated addition, arithmetic sequences, foundations for understanding multiplication, distribution, and factoring.
- Perimeter and Area: Perimeter and area of rectangles, polygons, and rectilinear shapes.
Publisher's Description of Beast Academy 3A Math Guide
Beast Academy provides a fun, rigorous, challenging, complete curriculum for aspiring math beasts. Unit 3A includes chapters on shapes, skip-counting, and perimeter & area.
The Guide book is written in an engaging comic book style.
Category Description for Beast Academy Level 3
Grade 3 chapters are:
- Book 3A: shapes, skip-counting, perimeter, and area.
- Book 3B: multiplication, perfect squares, and the distributive property.
- Book 3C: variables, division, and measurement.
- Book 3D: fractions, estimation, and area.
The Beast Academy Puzzles 3 was developed to use with the Level 3 program but can also be used independently for ages 9 and up. There are 12 different puzzle types and hundreds of math puzzles. Each section increases in difficulty. Each section has a difficulty rating, a solved example of a puzzle, strategy notes, and solutions in the back.
Details
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 4-5 |
| Brand: | Art of Problem Solving |
| Author: | Jason Batterson & Erich Owen |
| ISBN: | 9781934124406 |
| Length in Inches: | 10.875 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.375 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.1875 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.65 |
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Reviews
14 Ratings
1-10 of 14 Reviews
Rated 5 out of 5
Oct 5, 2023
Fun and Challenging
My son loves Beast Academy! It's challenging, so it's been a good fit for us.
Rated 5 out of 5
Jan 11, 2021
Beast Academy is great!
My kids love Beast Academy! These guides book are well written. My kids love the characters. The pages are super colorful and a nice weight. Would recommend for kids who like a math challenge.
Rated 5 out of 5
Aug 19, 2020
Holds their interest
My sons will sit and read/reread this on their own! Gotta be some learning soaking in. :)
Rated 5 out of 5
Oct 23, 2018
Kids sit and read this in their free time!
We love this series. My children will actually sit on the couch and read the guide books in their spare time. We love the challenge, the variety of problems, and the joy of the mathematics as it's presented. I am a former math teacher and math major, so this is rigorous and delightful. I am using grade "3" for my third and fifth grader...it is much harder than normal curriculum. Some of the problems are even a little challenge for me and my engineer husband...they really teach you to think.
Rated 5 out of 5
May 17, 2018
Wonderful Fun
We are very pleased with this math book. The comics are fun and informative, quite engaging for my son! He will bring the guide book just about everywhere with him, including reading it before bed.
Rated 5 out of 5
Mar 9, 2018
Fun and interesting
I bought this as a supplement for my gifted third grader who wants extra challenges at home. He really enjoys it, and I like the creative thinking involved in the problems. Even his older brother, who is in 9th grade, has found it interesting and has done some of the problems with him.
Rated 5 out of 5
Jan 15, 2018
Glad we made the switch
I'm so glad we took the placement test first and ordered the level "below" his current grade level. Switched from Teaching Textbooks 6 and this requires so much more actual thinking, and it's fairly entertaining. A month in and no arguing about math-
that's really saying something around here.
that's really saying something around here.
Rated 5 out of 5
Apr 17, 2017
Such a fun way to learn math
My daughter carries this book around the house, to the car, inside stores, etc... She LOVES doing it, and spends at least an hour most days reading, re-reading, erasing answers so she can re-work the problems, printing additional sheets from the website (games!), and loves working on this with adults as well. (Most of whom are most impressed with this curriculum!) I'm so glad we've finally landed on an engaging, exciting, fun, and challenging maths curriculum. After a week of working in 3A, we ordered the rest of the third grade set!
Rated 5 out of 5
Jan 6, 2017
Great for math problem solving & reading tie in. My son finds it very fun and enjoys doing it.
Rated 4 out of 5
Oct 28, 2016
Good fit for my daughter
My daughter hates math but loves the comic book format and the characters. Beast Academy does require a little supplementation since we have not studied any type of geometry. The material is given in small doses so she is usually not overwhelmed. The accompanying math practice book is a good match.
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Why did you choose this?
Had good reviews and seemed like a fun way to learn math.
Math enrichment/ Challenging
It teaches math in a different way. The way mathy people probably think.
Hoping this will engage my reluctant math student. He loves graphic novels!