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** spoiler alert ** Summary: Math Curse by Lane Smith and Jon Scieszka was a hit! It’s most important lesson is that math is EVERYWHERE!! A powerful message introduced in a fun and entertaining way that Scieszka and Smith so easily do. The book tells of a student who is cursed by the way mathematics works in everyday life. The authors use algebra, probability, charts, statistics, fractions, time and money throughout the book. The character meets problem after problem, slowly turning into a math zombie as everything in her life is somehow a math problem. She finally escapes this unfortunate world, able to solve any math problem. Her curse is broken until the next day when her science teacher mentions something similar to her math dilemma leaving readers in a cliffhanger�
Teaching tool: The book is such a fun read and does one of my favorite things…teaches children without them knowing they are learning! The illustrations are unique and oddly entertaining. I think this book could be used for a variety of lessons…a break from the daily math instruction; it could be used a motivator at the beginning of the year to get students really interested in math; a teacher could have this be the math lesson for a substitute while he/she is out of the building; it could be read to get build community and get students talking and working together to solve problems; it also teaches there are multiple ways to solve one problem.