Synopsis
In Missing Math, the numbers all over town suddenly disappear. The animals can’t count, use the phone, or even find out what time it is. Rulers, money, and computers have all become completely useless. . . . Can the town’s detective solve this numerical mystery? Will he ever bring the numbers back home again? Loreen Leedy’s clever rhyming text PLUS her amusing digitally painted illustrations EQUALS proof that we need math each and every day.
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About the Author
Loreen Leedy writes and illustrates books in her studio in central Florida. When not writing, drawing, or painting on her computer, she's exercising, eating out, or going to the movies with her husband Andrew Schuerger. Her other books include the following:
- Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story
- Missing Math: A Number Mystery
- The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day
- Fraction Action
- There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me
From the Back Cover
Loreen Leedy has written a number of entertaining books about math, Including Fraction Action, The Great Graph Contest, Mission Addition, Subtraction Action, and Measuring Penny.
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In Missing Math, the numbers all over town suddenly vanish. The animals can't count, use the phone, or even find out what time it is. Rulers, money, and computers have all become completely useless...
Can the town's detective solve this numerical mystery? Will he ever bring the numbers back again?
Loreen Leedy's clever rhyming text PLUS her amusing artwork EQUALS the fact we need math each and every day.
Reviews
Kindergarten-Grade 2—Imagine a world without numbers. Madly trying to replace them, but to no avail, two-dimensional, wide-eyed, nattily dressed animals cavort on brightly colored pages, conversing in rhyme about how pervasive and needed numbers are. Adding, subtracting, scoring games-neither winners nor losers can be chosen in sporting matches and elections. Money has no value, and the questions and confusions about postage, addresses, calendars, time, age, library-book due dates, telephone numbers, computers, calculators, heights, and weights grow. The story concludes with the culprit revealing himself—a numbers thief, armed with a vacuum, sucking up all of the numerals in his attempt to make the longest number to reach infinity. The animals celebrate once the numbers have been returned. Yet, the library books are overdue, and the judge offers a punishment that will seem illogical to readers. Still, children will enjoy locating the hidden numbers and brainstorming the countless ways numbers are important in their world.—Marian Creamer, Children's Literature Alive, Portland, OR
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When a town’s numbers suddenly disappear, the residents discover how much they depend on numerals in their everyday lives. A detective investigates the mystery, hoping to restore numbers to their proper places on chalkboards, scoreboards, rulers, TV remotes, speed-limit signs, clocks, calendars, cookbooks, calculators, and computers, to name a few. After the detective solves the case, the dials on the thief’s patent-pending number vacuum reverse the machine’s flow and the numbers return to the rightful places. Teeming with action and details, the large-scale, digitally painted illustrations feature zany, dressed-animal characters. While the scenes are busy with action and detail, they offers bits of comic byplay that will keep children engaged in the story, which is told in rhymed couplets. From the author/illustrator of Subtraction Action (2000) and It’s Probably Penny (2007), here’s another colorful picture book with ties to the math curriculum. Grades K-2. --Carolyn Phelan
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