Book Information

Book ID Asin: 1933339926
Book Title: Addition Facts that Stick: Help Your Child Master the Addition Facts for Good in Just Six Weeks
Book Author: Kate Snow,Debra Pearson,Corrin Brewer
Book Format and Price:
Book Format Name: Paperback
Book Format Price: $18.95
Book Price: $18.95
Book Category: Books, Education & Teaching, Schools & Teaching and unknown
Book Rating: 485 ratings

Book Product Detail

• Best Sellers Rank: #29,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #71 in Math Teaching Materials
  • #126 in Homeschooling (Books)
  • #233 in Children's Math Books (Books)

• Customer Reviews:
  4.6 out of 5 stars 485 ratings

Book Review

Name: Sassy
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Waste of money - Common Core beware - Stay away
Date: Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2019
Review: I homeschool my child to stay away from books like these. I was recommended this book for my child to get ready for first grade and after reading it and feeling LOST on first-grade math I was confused and looked up common core math and that's what this is. A simplified version of it. I loved how the author states in the beginning that she "realized kids these days needed to learn basic math problems like 4+7 because they didn't know them anymore as they used too." That is paraphrasing and not an exact quote but that was her reason for writing this book. The reason kids don't know math is because they have to read stuff like this. I taught college years ago and each year I taught the new students coming in were dumber than the last because they had less and less of real education and more of this kind of stuff. Parents if you are wondering what to do. Stay away. Colleges don't accept common core math and will not accommodate for it so what you are doing to your kids is making everything so much harder.

Name: agmom
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Solid math games
Date: Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2020
Review: After a weird 4th quarter of school this past year thanks to COVID we decided to transfer our kids to a different school in our area, one that works a year ahead in math. While my kids know their addition and subtraction facts for the most part, their speed is down and I didn’t think they were problem solving their faces well (like thinking of 5+6 as 1 more than 5+5 which they should know quickly is 10.

This book is designed to take 4 days per lesson; however, I’ve been doing 2 days per lesson so that we will have time this summer to also go through the subtraction book and maybe (if we are really diligent) also be able to do some multiplication.

My kids really like the games (like playing Go Fish to make pairs that make 10) and tolerate the worksheets for review. I’ve made the worksheets fun this summer as well by having them rollerblade to the door and back between each question, etc, just to make it more fun too.

I would recommend this for any student who has already had a small intro to addition, although you could likely introduce them as you go, and for any older elementary students who could use a boost with speed.

The only reason this book doesn’t get a full 5 stars from me is because the game boards would really be ideally printed on card stock, so I made copies of those pages on card stock. It might work for gentle students on regular paper but my kids are just rough.

Two more small notes:
1. This book is a consumable for one child, or you can make photocopies for other children. It’s fine, but I just wish I had known that before purchasing or I may have purchased two instead of making copies every lesson to make it work for us this summer.

2. Make sure you’ve got a deck of cards, two types of counters (like red and blue buttons or whatever), and a coin.

Name: adam w.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I thought it was hopeless...This works!!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016
Review: Guys, this works! Best $12 I've ever spent. I am still in disbelief.
We have tried everything, traditional flash cards, tri-corner flash cards, cuisenaire rods, computer games, dice and card games, wrap ups, 3 different math curricula over the past 3 years...and my second grader most of the time still struggled to recall 2+1 on a flash card. Blank stares. She couldn't finish a worksheet with 5 of the simplest problems on it without a LOT of coaxing, reminding, refocusing. Blanking out, freezing up.
I did this with at the same time with both a second grader and a kindergartener who had zero formal math training. They BOTH get the process and can finish a 24 problem worksheet in under 5 minutes with 100% accuracy with zero interference from me. I am blown away. The only thing I did differently was practicing "visualizations" daily. I'd set up a problem on the 10 frames, flash it to them for a few seconds, and they would write the problem and the answer on their worksheet. We did this for 10 problems daily, and by week 5 my math-hating child said, "Why do you mostly just give us easy problems now?" Because they're mostly all easy now!
It is fast, simple, FUN, requires very few resources, and it WORKS.
There is a subtraction program being released in December 2016. I will not hesitate to buy it.

Name: Babita
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Decent concept - not for everyone
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2018
Review: I was so excited to see this book. My son has some special needs and has especially been struggling with math. He is significantly behind and it's hard to move forward until he can master the basics of addition.

The ideas in the book are simple and tangible but not exactly groundbreaking. Common core uses many of the strategies. This book did simplify many of the common core strategies so I gave it a shot.

LIMITATION - I think this book and it's strategies would work wonderfully with someone who is a visual learner. Almost all of the strategies use visual representation to understand the equation and learn the answer. My son unfortunately have issues with visual learning and this book did absolutely nothing to help his addition skills.

Name: Erin C. Mabon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Shifted addition facts from a chore to simple memory quickly and easily
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2018
Review: we're homeschooling 1st grade but we wrapped up our Singapore Math curriculum in March and rather than plow through to 2nd grade, I decided on the recommendation of homeschooling friends, to pause and really cement the math facts in my son's mind before moving on. We're finishing up week 6 now and the difference is stunning! He used to get frustrated trying to remember his addition facts or just throw out haphazard guesses, but now they're really part of his memory! The games are easy and fun, the lessons completely simple to deliver, and the practice sheets just right! After this we're going to move on to the Subtraction Facts that stick. I absolutely recommend working this into your homeschool, or for my public school friends using it to shore up these basics this summer before moving onto 2nd grade. Older students could definitely benefit too!

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