The IXL Ultimate Grade 5 Math Workbook

We used this book over the summer to help get my daughter ready for 5th grade math. I thought the explanations before the workbook pages were a very good. She still needed someone to check her work but there was a answer key which was nice sometimes. I liked that this book covers a lot of topics and doesn't focus on any of them for too long

Excellent workbook

We love IXL books for our homeschool because they don't have all the extra language and a ton of riff raff which my kids find boring and long. This is to the point with short explanations. There is not a lot of lesson, which I don't mind because I can easily teach it to them in a way they best learn and understand. They prefer these streamlined books over typical math curriculum as it feels less overwhelming. So if you have a child that hates math because it takes too long and is confusing, give this a try if you feel confident in your ability to explain it too them when they have questions

We homeschool so I was looking for a workbook that is open and go and would teach everything my son should learn this year. I bought a couple different workbooks so see which would meet our needs. I bought this company's books in grades k - 5 too see if the higher grades might work for my older daughters. Conclusion I came to is this probably goes well combined with IXL's online program. It has more practice pages than the other k workbook I bought but not enough to completely teach the material. Seems like it would be a good supplement for someone using the online program but wanting some offline learning as well. I ended up going with school zone's big math k-1 for my K son and their 1-2 for my 1st grader. Sticking with our math mammoth curriculum for my older kids and may decide to keep some of these for more interesting practice pages for them after they learn the material in their other book first.

This is awesome. Everything you need to run groups of kids that need a little more love in mathematics. Great stuff

I like this clear, straightforward exposition of how to do the problems and how using multiple methods of doing the same operation can expand a child's understanding of math beyond getting the answers. I know that many of us who learned math generations ago might be frustrated by what may seem redundant methodologies for the same problem that can be worked by methods using essentially rote learning. Yet from what I could see in this book, the various problems presented started in many cases with the old methods, for long division as an example, and then presented other ways to do long division. These new methods go deeper into how one math problem might relate to another and what lies behind the methods we learned--which were basically designed to reduce the problem solving process to a mechanical procedure. So when older generations take one look at the new methods and find they can't do the problems themselves without a little effort, the pronounce them ridiculous and pointless. I like this book because it enhanced my own approach to the operations and expanded my knowledge of what lies behind these and all methods of this level of math.And with a little patience and attention it was presented clearly enough to allow me to review grade five math in a couple of hours. Not a bad investment for learning how to help the kids three generations younger than me enjoy math more and be more successful in school.

This was a hit with my 10yo son. He was given a workbook to work on over the Summer and I normally would have him do 2 pages at a time, so as to not overwhelm him. We ended up finishing it almost a whole month before school restarted, but his main complaint wasn’t necessarily how many pages it lacked, yet how little math sections it had and kept telling me he wished it consisted of only math.. 😳 (leave it to a 10yo who actually enjoys math lol) So I found this workbook to keep him busy in the meantime, and just two pages in he was already anxiously asking to do more 😅 The colors on both the cover and work pages were really intriguing to him, and its actually really satisfying to see how interested this has kept him. So far, he says his favorite activities are the long division exercises. Crazy, right? (I love math, but long division was my least favorite) I’m especially looking forward to the upcoming topics for him on Order of Operations, mixed fractions, solving equations, and even the intro to Geometry. He’s already hooked so I don’t doubt he will like those sections too. Overall, highly recommend this workbook, A+++

My girlfriend's son has been struggling with math for the past few years despite being a bright child. Part of the blame for this is due to the ineffective remote instruction he received during Covid. Another part of the blame is due to the ridiculous methods of problem-solving pushed by Common Core. The final fault lay with him not taking things seriously. After deciding to take matters into my own hands, I looked online for good review materials. I settled on "The Ultimate Math Workbook" series and ordered Grades 4-8 in anticipation of his enrollment in 8th Grade in August. I couldn't be happier with that decision. The problem-solving methods used are simple and straightforward with at least some effort devoted to helping the student develop an intuitive feel for the material. As of this writing, we have plowed through Grades 4-6 in 2 weeks in a Math Boot Camp style. In this way, he is seeing much more of the big picture than by studying only 1 hour per day. He's not thanking me yet, but next year in school, his math class will be like a review for him. Long story short, if your child is struggling with math, these workbooks are the tool you need to turn things around.

Very practical

Its a good book, for review. There's no instruction for each lesson. Your child should know it beforehand

Although I like the exercises in the book, I wish there were more exercises for each topic. Each skill has a corresponding ID that you should be able to find if you have an IXL membership, which we do. All the ID's in this book are wrong or do not exist.