Math Potatoes: Mind-stretching Brain Food
by Greg Tang
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Author: Greg TangIllustrator: Harry Briggs
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-01
ISBN: 0439443903
Number of pages: 40
Publisher: Scholastic Press
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- ISBN13: 9780439443906
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Hearty Brain Food!
Summary: 5 Stars
The book entitled Math Potatoes contains 16 poems of "mind-stretching brain food." Through cleverly written rhymes, Tang offers kids a way to understand what is being asked and find the answer using problem solving techniques that make arithmetic smarter, easier, and a lot more fun!
Many of the students that I tutor say they don't like math. They resort to counting on their fingers instead of grouping numbers the way Tang suggests in his book. For example, the riddle entitled "Smart Cookies" challenges kids to count each chocolate chip by grouping them into a square and adding the rest. The colorful illustrations and the solutions provided in the back of the book help the students to understand the concepts.
The entire Scholastic math series by Tang is a great educational tool. Highly recommended!
Summary of Math Potatoes: Mind-stretching Brain Food
Readers who have graduated from THE GRAPES OF MATH will find new, more advanced math challenges.
Greg Tang is back with his bestselling approach to addition and subtraction: problem solving. By solving challenges that encourage kids to "group" numbers rather than memorize formulas, even the most reluctant math learners are inspired to see math in a whole new way! Math Potatoes is full of Tang and Briggs' trademark humor, wit, and extraordinary creativity. Tang has proven over and over that math can be fun, and this new addition to his acclaimed series of mind-stretching math riddles is sure to be another hit.
Greg Tang is back with his bestselling approach to addition and subtraction: problem solving. By solving challenges that encourage kids to "group" numbers rather than memorize formulas, even the most reluctant math learners are inspired to see math in a whole new way! Math Potatoes is full of Tang and Briggs' trademark humor, wit, and extraordinary creativity. Tang has proven over and over that math can be fun, and this new addition to his acclaimed series of mind-stretching math riddles is sure to be another hit.
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