This book must not be written in, but it should be taken home regularly for students to work out of in order to keep up their math skills. Students who don't know them should practice them at home using flash cards, or practice from the math fact chart located at the back of their math journal. Completing all assigned homework helps. Playing math games with family and friends also helps to build math skills. Double-checking their work will enable students to be more successful at their math work.
Some students fail at multiplication problems because they add instead of multiply.
They need to pay close attention to the operations demanded of the problem. Sometimes students add instead of subtracting. Many students forget to borrow or carry. Some divide incorrectly because they try to divide the subtrehend instead of the dividend. These are just a few of the commom mistakes that are made when working in math.