Riddle-Iculous Math - Hardcover

Joan Holub; Regan Dunnick; Heather Boyd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807549967 ISBN 13: 9780807549964

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2003

Synopsis

Lots of silly math questions can be found in this funny book of riddles and jokes. Children can learn basic math skills while reading about animal sleepover parties, cafeteria food fights, and a boy who made more than 5 million dollars in one month!

About this title

About the Authors

Joan Holub is the author and/or illustrator of over one hundred thirty books for children, including Apple Countdown and Wagons Ho! She lives in North Carolina with her husband, George.

Regan is an internationally known illustrator. He has won numerous awards and his works are in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. He has been selected to such major exhibitions as the United Nations Environmental Show, The New Pop Show- which toured Europe and chronicled innovators, American Illustration, and The Hiroshima Memorial Design Show (Hiroshima Japan). Regan lives in Osprey, Florida with his wife Debbie and his parrot, Stretch. He teaches at The Ringling School of Art.
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Reviews

Kindergarten-Grade 5--A collection of funny, corny, and sometimes challenging riddles and rhymes based on math. Some are adaptations of familiar rhymes or chants ("Miss Lucy had a student;/his name was Brainy Ben./She gave him some math problems/and told him to begin"). Others involve simple addition and subtraction functions to solve a riddle. Simple, colorful cartoons appear throughout. The riddles appear in black type, with the answers in red just below. These selections can be used as bonus test questions, quick brainteasers, or just for fun.--Nancy A. Gifford, Schenectady County Public Library, NY
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Gr. 2-5. "Where do math teachers eat? On multiplication tables." With verbal puns, rhymes, and wild watercolor-and-pencil cartoons, this book makes numbers a hilarious part of schoolyard play, from metric food fights to pizza fractions. The slapstick word-and-picture scenarios will appeal to young children, but some of the math, especially metric conversion and multiplication and division, is more advanced and best for sharing with older children at home and in the classroom. The best pages blend verbal and math fun: "You will discover treasure in an Egyptian (15 - 13) mb." Fortunately, the answers are always right there. Hazel Rochman
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Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807549967
• ISBN 13: 9780807549964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32