Math Curse

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Summary: A Hilarious Teaching Tool
Review: This is a wonderful book that will crack kids up every time they read it. They will read it again and again to capture all of the nuances in this story. Teachers and parents alike will enjoy reading this book to their students and having them solve the multitude of problems. Most kids will enjoy a project to think of as many math problems in their day as they can. I love this book!

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Summary: Excellent for Math Gurus and Scardy Cats Alike
Review: This is an excellent book both educationally and entertainmentally. This book is a great way to teach children (and parents) that math is not as scary as it may seem. This book is now also a feature book on the ever-loved show "Reading Rainbow." (One of the best RR episodes I have seen yet!) I love this book and am sure you will to. Also be sure to check out the Stinky Cheese Man (also by the same author).

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Summary: An extremely fun book for children and adults both..
Review: This is one of those children's books that adults will be reading to themselves and chuckling out loud. It was read to a classroom of 1st graders who loved it. Most of the children took it as a straightforward and funny story about a little girl who has had a "math curse" put on her by her math teacher. She perceives everything as a word problem in math. Some children (only one so far in my experience) might feel compelled to work each and every problem and experience distress if they can't come up with all the answers. Which is another important lesson of the book....some problems AREN't math problems. To try and solve these problems using math is just wacky. I think this lesson is every bit as important as the one that math is very pervasive in everyday life. The book ends when the little girl breaks the math curse and "life is just great until science class, when Mr. Newton says, YOU KNOW, you can think of almost everything as a science experiment..."