All the essentials kids need to succeed in grade school and score well on standardized tests in one small, easy-to-use packagePocket Basics for Math and English breaks subject matter down into bite-size, five-minute learning segments pitched to the average grade-schooler's attention span.Kids learn the parts of speech, spelling, punctuation, literary terms, and how to distinguish between easily confused words. In math, they learn multiplication tables; units of time; months and seasons; the meanings of key math terms and symbols; geometric forms; how to calculate volume, area, simple interest, and discounts; and more.