7/7/2023 0 Comments Math curseHere's a morsel: ""Does tunafish + tunafish = fournafish?"" Kids will want seconds-count on it. I multiply times 2 socks and divide by 3 pillows to get 5 sheep, remainder 1, which is all I need to count before I fall asleep."" Like the text, Smith's wonderfully wacky collage-like art will give readers ample food for thought-even if it's part junk food. A minimum of the questions she asks herself are entirely logical (""How many quarts are in a gallon?'') some are far-fetched extrapolations (if an M&M is about one centimeter long and the Mississippi River is about 4000 kilometers long, how many M&Ms would it take to measure the length of this river?) and a happily hefty number are sheer nonsense: ""I undo 8 buttons plus 2 shoelaces. Read by Riko.Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem You have 10 thin. The day after her teacher announces, ""You know, you can think of almost everything as a math problem,"" the narrator is afflicted with a ``math curse'' that affects how she views every facet of her day (``Everything seems to be a problem''). Math Curse by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith. Whew! This latest whimsical work from Scieszka and Smith (The True Story of the Three Little Pigs The Stinky Cheese Man) is bound to stretch out the old thinking cap.
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