Math, Reference 

"Everything You Need to Know About Math Homework," a volume in "The Scholastic Reference Series," provides fourth to sixth grade students and their parents with the information they need to complete math assignments. With the help of Dial-A-Teacher, which has operated a telephone helpline since 1979, the authors have compiled this math reference guide with easy-to-understand answers to students' most frequently asked questions. No other source offers such a full range of information directly related to the fourth through sixth grade math curriculum.

Need to know how to find the lowest common denominator of two or more fractions? Round off to the nearest ten or tenth? Change a base 10 numeral into base 2? Measure an angle? Make a line or bar graph and interpret it? Find a number when you know a percent? Divide 37 into 46,925?

"Everything You Need to Know About Math Homework" is the place to look for fast. clear, and accurate information on the math that students are learning in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, such as:

the decimal system Pi
addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division geometry
fractions graphs
rounding off and estimation statistics ad probability
averages calculators
percentages story problems
square roots and square numbers and much more
measurement