will be a fun one to kick off the year! Children's Choice Award winner Bethany Barton applies her signature humor to the scariest subject of all: math!
Do multiplication tables give you hives Do you break out in a sweat when you see more than a few numbers hanging out together Then I'm Trying to Love Math is for you! In her signature hilarious style, Bethany Barton introduces readers to the things and people that use math in amazing ways like music, and spacecraft, and even baking cookies! This isn't a howto math book, it's a way to think differently about math as a necessary and cool part of our lives! Featured in a grandma reads session.
"Mathematics, in a sense, is logic let loose in the field of the imagination, "
Margaret Wertheim
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics, I can assure you mine are still greater, "
Albert Einstein
A fantastic book with everything from recipes, to Pythagoras, music, pizza, guitars, space ships and aeyed alien who is in an extremely earnest conversation with the reader.
Yep. He breaks the fourth wall completely and is assuming the reader is a totally reluctant mather, and the book moves forward from there.
It worked for us because in our group lurks a couple of very reluctant mathers, so I was more than happy to do this book, and even engaged my listeners to be the readers, The kids always listen a little more tightly when they themselves are the readersoutloud, And that's a bucket of fun for me, Love the "math is all around you" theme and the sentence that "math is a understood all over the earth, no matter what language people speak.
" which is how I understood calculus when I lived in South America before I learned to speak Spanish! I loved this book even though I really don't love math! : The story of my life.
Math and I don't always get along, However, maybe it is Arithmetic that I really don't love, With the patterns and everything, some of math really is kind of pretty, This friendly, illustrated guide to a scary subject shows that even though many people don't like studying math in school, we could not live orderly or fulfilling lives without it.
Math helps us bake! It's a universal language! We experience its beauty through music, and through nature! I have learned to love math after years of frustration, and I hope that this will help lots of kids see its beauty sooner than I did.
Love Bethany Barton's picture books they have great humor tied into the learning, and fun illustrations, I was not expecting math to be the next topic after spiders and bees, but it was an interesting twist to what I expect from her books.
Will definitely add to the library collection, I really enjoy this seriesThis one is cute and very much appreciated! As a more "rightbrained" person and in a more artistic family/community, I'm used to lots of "math is hard" and "I'm bad at math" mentalities.
But math is awesome, not awful at all, and you can do so much with it! Not sure what ages I would read this with, since some of the concepts pi, fractions, etc are more advanced than preschool level though dealt with in a playful way.
This book would be great for a classroom teacher to use as a fun way to prepare students for a difficult new math lesson! I think that picture books are great for all ages, so the possibilities here are endless.
For my own sake, I wish there was also a title called I'm Trying to Love Science! I truly adored this book.
As someone who grew up not caring for math, this book was a very fun and engaging read! The art humor of the book is delightful, and the conversation between the alien from Planet Homework! ewwwww and the books narrator who is convinced that math is the worst is fun and enlighting, especially as the narrator is exposed to the various ways that math makes up the world in small ways that prove to be useful and not as scary as one might think! recommended for kiddos between, though honestly, it's charming and can be enjoyed by adults who hate math Cute book.
. . but I still don't like anything more than basic math, LOL
Cute book! Title italicize: I'm Trying to Love Math
Author: Bethany Barton
Genre: Math
Themes: Learning
Opening line/sentence: If you ask me, math is not very lovable
Brief Book Summary: An alien expresses to a child that math is everywhere.
Math is the same throughout the world, that it is used in everyday life, This story expresses that math is important, it is more than just homework,
Response to Two Professional s : In the review of Kirkus s, it was expressed the approachable fun and it use of comic book method was a perfect fit.
Expressing that fun is not fun but it is everywhere, The scholastic book club expressed its funny approach to learn math and the importance of it,
Tell Me Frameworksentences in your own words:
Likes: very creative and cute idea to create a story.
Dislikes: could give a child the wrong method
Patternss: the alien throughout the story
Puzzles: Will it give children the wrong message
Consideration of Instructional Applicationsentences in your own words: Who knew a little purple ET could teach so much about math Not only does he float down in his saucer to help the narrator understand its importance, but explains its history and how math is all around us even in nature! The things we do, from baking, to traveling, to.
. . well, anything, all has math involved
somehow! Even if you aren't the best with numbers, you will be charmed by this informative book.
I'm pretty sure this book didn't make me love math, but it sure was fun to read about it! And as always, Barton will make you laugh as you read along! Clever and fun.
I think this could be part of a mathphobic storytime, along with the beloved classic sitelinkMath Curse,
Thanks to Penguin Young Readers for the review copy, Math is all around us, In the cookies we bake, to the cars we travel in, to the launching of a spacecraft, to the circumference of a pizza.
Math is part of life, In a humorous manner, Barton introduces the many ways we use math every day, The illustrations are busy, filled with speech bubbles and numbers, This is a nice method to strike up curiosity about a subject onlyof people like, I recommend this book for elementary students, My daughterhates math. It's been a real struggle for her, probably because much of the rote learning in elementary school clashes with her free spirited nature.
However, she wants to be either an ecologist or a zoologist, so I keep telling her she needs to learn math to do it.
Then I found this book, It's got cute pictures, silly but clever dialogue, and it points out the benefits of math and how we use it everyday life apparently way better than I did.
Now, while she still doesn't love math, she does her homework with greater gusto, and she's read this book a couple of times.
My sonloves math and loves this book so much he keeps it by his bed and often reads it at night before going to sleep.
Part of thehere. Okay, hate is a strong word let's go with a very strong feeling, I try to encourage Madam, and she is very good at Math, Whenever she talks down about Math, I try to build her up and compare it to another language, though secretly it's a VERY difficult language for me and I feel very vexed sometimes when it comes to certain Maths.
sigh
Did this book help Not really, Did it make me want cookies and pizza and pie Yep, Was it cute and funny Yep, While I have a distaste for people saying they are "not a math person," this book does come with good humor.
I like the idea of imagining Barton's authentic use of bamboo purchased in Singapore to do the lettering, I do think that I like Scieszka's Math Curse more, although maybe because I used that in the classroom several times, and had my students write their own Science Curse before Scieszka came out with his own! Textto self connection
I came across this book and the first thing I thought was ''Dang I needed to read this when I was younger''.
Math is not may strong suit, it's always been an area that I struggled deeply within, So taking a look at the book, it helped provided same amazing examples of math, They shared that math is like something we work on daily, We can memorize it by making songs out of it, Learning and understanding that we use math every day, My goal as a teacher is to help students learn and enjoy learning in every area, It may be hard but choose your hard and keep going anyway, Im Trying to Love Math by Bethany Barton, PICTURE BOOK. Viking Penguin Random House,
BUYING ADVISORY: EL KESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
The narrator of this book is sure that he does not love math.
An alien responds to the narrator explaining all the great ways math shows up in the world, It shows up in music and baking and nature, The narrator decides that since math is a part of so many things he already loves, he probably loves math too.
This book is at a slight disadvantage because Im Trying to Love Spiders was such a good book and this one follows the same style and aesthetic, but just isnt quite as fun.
It is interesting in its own right and would be a fun addition to a math classroom,
Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
sitelink blogspot. com/ Some great context here, but not as convincing on the reasons we should love math other than we use it all the time.
Love this one! Age:strd grade
STEM: Math
Nip that arithmophobia in the bud with this nervesoothing primer on our mathfilled world.
Spoiler alert: it's everywhereeven in your cookies!
I love that Barton has created a series of books that seek to "decriminalize" things that our culture may collectively dislike, include sitelinkspiders, sitelinkbees, and, now, math.
I love Bethany Barton. Her books are funny, entertaining, and engaging, And, as an adult, if you ask the right questions after read aloud, her books can also prompt wonderful discussions.
This one isn't quite as great as I'm Trying To Love Spiders, but it's well worth a read.
Super cute picture book showing all of the important roles math plays in our every day life, For grades K amp up, artist/author/illustrator. superpowers include freckles a loud laugh, .
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