How Well Does Your Child Do Math?: A Step-By-Step Assessment of Your Child's Math Skills and Techniques to Develop Them

by Ann Cook

As a parent of a grammar school student, you want to do everything in your power to help your child succeed and gain an edge. But first, you need to know just how well your child is doing in school. How Well Does Your Child Do Math? shows you how to determine the math levels of your child. With this knowledge, you will be able to force on areas that need strengthening, and will know what to expect from your child's teachers and school. In addition, it covers the many key areas of math and helps you help your child master them. How Well Does Your Child Do Math? provides a comprehensive math test for children in kindergarten through 5th grade, offering assessments as well as grade level guidelines to tell at what level a child is in math. Like the other books in Ann Cook's series, How Well Does Your Child Read? and How Well Does Your Child Write?, it is written for all parents who have questions about their children's skills and want to help their children succeed.

191 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1997

About the author

Ann Cook is the author of the best-selling American Accent Training text, published by Barron's in 1991, 2000 and 2012. (Also published in China, Japan, Korea and India.) Her speciality is tailoring and expanding materials for specific situations, as in her three books for parents of elementary-age students, How Well Does Your Child Read? How Well Does Your Child Write? How Well Does Your Child Do Math?

Cook studied Spanish Literature at the California State University at Los Angeles, spent a year at the Institut d'Études Françaises in Aix-en-Provence, a month studying Spanish with the Peace Corps language program in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, and five years in Japan at the Japanese Culture and Language Institute in Tokyo.

In addition to her regular teacher training, Cook has trained a dozen Americans to teach in Korea, and hundreds of Korean high school students who came to the US for her program. Her company, American Accent Training, Inc., has provided training for numerous heads of corporations, post-graduate students, engineers and IT personnel. American Accent Training is used around the world at public and private schools, universities and corporate training programs.

Cook also developed an online learning program for the American accent and culture for blended learning in the overseas call center market, including assessments, industry-specific modules, sales modules, and general cultural information, delivered via a Moodle platform.

American Accent Training, Inc., founded in 1986 and incorporated in 1997, is a virtual language training company with instructors across the United States. All AAT instructors have a masters degree or PhD and are intensively trained in-house, specifically for second accent acquisition.

The phrase "American Accent Training" is trademarked.