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Visual Learning Bridge teaches math concepts step-by-step with purposeful, sequential illustrations while connecting learning activities and lesson exercises. Grades 3–6 hardbound edition expands visual learning with focus questions and pictures with a purpose, and students learn to express concepts in writing. Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley enVisionMATH (©2009) Grade 3 hardbound edition, organized by math Topics contains daily lessons that provide a Visual Learning Bridge, teaching math concepts step-by-step with purposeful, sequential illustrations while connecting Interactive Learning with Guided and Independent skill and problem solving practice. Lesson-level Benchmark and Strategic Intervention, combined with Topic-Level Intensive Intervention provides data-driven differentiated instruction. All components are available in print and digital and in English and Spanish, making math accessible to all students. Unique Topic organization of Teacher's Edition and Resource Master Pouch provides the flexibility necessary to personalize instruction. Daily Problem-Based Interactive Math Learning followed by Visual Learning strategies deepen conceptual understanding by making meaningful connections for students and delivering strong, sequential visual/verbal connections through the Visual Learning Bridge in every lesson. Ongoing Diagnosis & Intervention and daily Data-Driven Differentiation ensure that enVisionMATH gives every student the opportunity to succeed. Features and Benefits
Envision a math program that meets the varied needs of students and teachers without undermining the strength of its curriculum. enVisionMATH addresses the wide range of educational issues that teachers face and provides curriculum to meet these needs that is truly successful. Research and Validity Two national studies were conducted in the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years by PRES Associates, an external, independent educational research firm. These scientifically-based research studies were conducted to determine the effectiveness of the 2004 and 2005 editions of the Scott Foresman Addison Wesley (SFAW) Elementary Math programs in helping 2nd through 5th grade students attain critical math skills. Authors The authors of enVisionMATH are nationally recognized experts, practitioners, and researchers. Their research continues to help identify the critical components that are essential for teaching children mathematics. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Pearson Education | | Hardcover:
| 508 pages | | Publisher:
| Scott Foresman | | Publication Date:
| June 14, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0328272825 | | Package Length:
| 10.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
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20 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 Tell Your school district not to waste their money!Sep 03, 2009
By California Teacher
This "new math" is the one of the WORST systems I have ecountered as an educator. This company has "enticed" school districts all over the country to adopt this system when it hasn't been successfully piloted anywhere and has no corroborating data to support their math "theories". The textsbooks were dated "2009" LAST YEAR when we received them (in 2008). The textbooks are also full of spelling errors, mathematical errors, and the teacher texts and students texts differ not only in some content but even in the page numbers. It is confusing to students and kids I had that loved math before, were reduced to tears because of this curriculums confusing and ambiguous ways of "teaching".
If only we could turn back the clock and get our old math program back- FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST!
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Good content in presented in an illogical sequenceFeb 12, 2011
By Tina Melquist
I am largely borrowing from my review of the accompanying Grade 3 workbook, since the two books cover the same material. I have written a review specific to the third-grade textbook and not just copied and pasted the same negative review for every grade in the entire series, like one reviewer has done.
First off, I am a math tutor with nearly 25 years of experience, as well as an undergraduate and two graduate degrees in math. I have seen just about everything when it comes to math curricula in my tutoring experience, ranging from the "drill and kill" Saxon-style exercises to the "fluffy, new math" discovery-based series. Believe me, I have seen my fair share of awful math texts. However, enVision Math is not one of those. Rather, it is much more akin to an attempt to take the world-renowned Singaporean methods for teaching elementary mathematics and apply them to the US market. Maybe that throws some people for a loop, but I am generally a fan of the series.
That said, I am quite disappointed in the third grade curriculum. (See my other reviews, if you're interested.) My main complaint is that the content in this book is not presented in the correct order. Also, some content is included which really should not be included in third grade, in my opinion. Specifically, far too much time is spent on geometry, including perimeter, area, and volume. If these chapters were put at the end of the book, then I could reason that many, if not most, teachers might not get all the way to the final few chapters in a textbook during a given school year, which wouldn't be any great loss. (In my mind, these topics are generally fourth- or fifth-grade topics anyway.) However, placing them smack in the middle of the book breaks up the continuity of the third-grade curriculum, which ought to focus primarly on extensive computational arithmetic using both algorithms and mental computation. The poor sequencing of this book makes the entire year's curriculum choppy.
For you information, here are the chapter titles:
1. Numeration
2. Adding Whole Numbers
3. Subtraction Number Sense
4. Subtracting Whole Numbers to Solve Problems
5. Multiplication Meanings and Facts
6. Multiplication Fact Strategies: Use Known Facts
7. Division Meanings
8. Division Facts
9. Patterns and Relationships
10. Solids and Shapes
11. Congruence and Symmetry
12. Understanding Fractions
13. Decimals and Money
14. Customary Measurement
15. Metric Measurement
16. Perimeter and Area
17. Time and Temperature
18. Multiplying Greater Numbers
19. Dividing with 1-digit Numbers
20. Data, Graphs, and Probability
I my opinion, the chapters really ought to be ordered thusly:
1 - 4, 13, 5 - 9, 18 - 19, 12, 17, 14 - 15, 20, 10 - 11, 16
Chapters 1 - 9 and 18 - 19 are very important to cover first and allow for a lot of practice of the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. I would place Chapter 13 in there, right after addition & subtraction, b/c adding & subtracting decimals is a natural next step once a student already knows the operations. After the basic operations, it makes sense to cover fractions in chapter 12. Time & temperature (Chapter 17), followed by other units about measuring (14 - 15) could go next, leaving topics like data (Chapter 20, which gets way too much play in elementary schools these days, imho) and geometry (Chapters 10, 11, 16) for the end.
Putting multiplication and division of larger numbers at the end of the book (chapters 18 & 19) really is the downfall of this third-grade curriculum. As soon as a student really starts getting the hang of multiplication & division, the course completely switches gears away from those operations and delves into geometry. What terrible planning! It would be much better if the course just kept going with multiplication & division and led the student on to multiplying and dividing larger numbers without breaking up the flow of the material. Of the five years of enVision Math textbooks I have reviewed, this is by far my least favorite, if only because of the terrible ordering of the material presented.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Unhappy Parent!Jun 23, 2011
By Big Lou
The seller wrote that the condition was "Used - like new." However, the actual condition is poor and very used. This text book has a good outside appearance, but the inside is a mess -- full of copious notes, ball point ink portions of the text blackened out and doodles on every page by a busy & messy kid! The seller is not honest and the price should have been listed for $10.00 not $52.99. I've seen lots of used children's text books after a year of school. This one looks like it! Unacceptable!
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 GreatOct 04, 2011
By SanD
This is a wonderful book for students wanting to grown their deeper understanding. There are wonderful problem solving sections. This is the book for you!
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