Thursday, March 9, 2017

Mystery Math: A First Book of Algebra


By: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Edward Miller
Genre: Children’s, educational
Pages: 32
Published: 2011


In a nutshell:
This book uses a haunted Halloween theme to teach basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Compare to:
Math Curse, Jon Scieszka
Eat Your Science Homework, Ann McCallum
How Full is Your Bucket? Tom Rath

What you may enjoy:
This is very simplified math that is illustrated and charted. It also gives examples of both word problems and equations. There is even a suggested object lesson at the end of the book.

What you may NOT enjoy:
The problems and answers are on the same page, which doesn’t give children a chance to solve it for themselves. The questions are too simple for children with any bit of algebraic knowledge.

Warnings:
Violence and Disturbing Images:
Comic illustrations of skeletons

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