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shawnareads24's review against another edition
4.0
Poetry and math riddles all in one! Perfect puzzles to start a math lesson!
shighley's review against another edition
3.0
This book struck me as too contrived. It's a very clever premise, but I don't think kids would appreciate the parodies of the poems. Sometimes I felt the problems were a bit confusing. You could have students do something similar; take a "famous" poem and rewrite to include a story problem, even illustrate it. I felt like the "Robert Frost's Boxer Shorts" was included just to acknowledge middle school humor. The illustrations are very good.
beecheralyson's review against another edition
5.0
Brilliant. I can't wait to share this with teachers. Math and poetry and a puzzle. Simply wonderful.
libraryrobin's review against another edition
3.0
Good cross-curricular bulletin board puzzlers here! Enough for a whole school year!
zephyrfgray's review against another edition
4.0
Once upon a midnight rotten
Cold, and rainy, I'd forgotten
All about the apple pie
Still cooling from the hour before.
I ignored the frightful stranger
Knocking, knocking... I, sleepwalking,
Pitter-pattered toward the pantry,
Took a knife from the kitchen drawer,
And screamed aloud, "How many cuts
Give me ten pieces?" through the door,
The stranger bellowed, "Never four!"
Answer: 5 cuts
Cute little math problems inspired by famous poems like the one above are incased in this book.
Very cute, but the humor of the allusions went right over my 9-year-old sister's head.
3.75 stars
Cold, and rainy, I'd forgotten
All about the apple pie
Still cooling from the hour before.
I ignored the frightful stranger
Knocking, knocking... I, sleepwalking,
Pitter-pattered toward the pantry,
Took a knife from the kitchen drawer,
And screamed aloud, "How many cuts
Give me ten pieces?" through the door,
The stranger bellowed, "Never four!"
Answer: 5 cuts
Cute little math problems inspired by famous poems like the one above are incased in this book.
Very cute, but the humor of the allusions went right over my 9-year-old sister's head.
3.75 stars
tcbueti's review against another edition
5.0
Great combo of silly poems, based on well-known classics… and math puzzles. Very entertaining. I could see math and/or language art teachers doing one a day with great success.
tami_provencher's review against another edition
4.0
Love this book! If you’ve read Arith-me-tickle this is the perfect next step by the same author. Delightful poems based on classic poetry which have wrapped themselves around math puzzles to be solved. (If you haven’t read Arith-me-tickle I highly recommend it!)
The featured poets include Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Ogden Nash, Langston Hughes, Shel Silverstein, William Carlos Williams and many others.
The math puzzles in this one involve slightly more complicated operations to solve.
They range from Ogden Nash’s Buggy Rugs inspired by Nash’s “The Termite”:
Some termite burrowed under rugs
And found three hundred thirteen bugs.
If eighty-two plus fifteen snore,
How many termites chew the floor?
to Walt Whitman’s Web-Covered Shoe,inspired by Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider” which begins:
A noiseless, patient spider–
I counted her filaments, first one, then two, then dozens,
Counted one hundred and forty, unreeling out of her until
A wind gust blew sixty percent of them off
To New Jersey. That left…oh, who can say how many
Trembling strands remained?
(This one continues on to add a bully spider and new arch bridges to increase the original arachnid’s creation.)
There are many more delights and, likeArith-me-tickle, the difficulty level of the puzzles vary so that they are accessible to all levels. Children (and adults) who enjoy numbers, math and math puzzles will giggle and stir those problem-solving, silly, poetry-loving juices!
This is a great way to help kids keep up their skills during the summer and a terrific resource to have in a classroom for students who would like a fun extra challenge that they can work on independently or in small groups. I would also use it as a read-aloud/solve-aloud together to introduce specific math concepts or operations in a classroom.
If you like math…check out this book!
The featured poets include Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Ogden Nash, Langston Hughes, Shel Silverstein, William Carlos Williams and many others.
The math puzzles in this one involve slightly more complicated operations to solve.
They range from Ogden Nash’s Buggy Rugs inspired by Nash’s “The Termite”:
Some termite burrowed under rugs
And found three hundred thirteen bugs.
If eighty-two plus fifteen snore,
How many termites chew the floor?
to Walt Whitman’s Web-Covered Shoe,inspired by Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider” which begins:
A noiseless, patient spider–
I counted her filaments, first one, then two, then dozens,
Counted one hundred and forty, unreeling out of her until
A wind gust blew sixty percent of them off
To New Jersey. That left…oh, who can say how many
Trembling strands remained?
(This one continues on to add a bully spider and new arch bridges to increase the original arachnid’s creation.)
There are many more delights and, likeArith-me-tickle, the difficulty level of the puzzles vary so that they are accessible to all levels. Children (and adults) who enjoy numbers, math and math puzzles will giggle and stir those problem-solving, silly, poetry-loving juices!
This is a great way to help kids keep up their skills during the summer and a terrific resource to have in a classroom for students who would like a fun extra challenge that they can work on independently or in small groups. I would also use it as a read-aloud/solve-aloud together to introduce specific math concepts or operations in a classroom.
If you like math…check out this book!
maidmarianlib's review against another edition
4.0
Lots of fun, I love the connection to classic poems (it made me want to go and read them myself), the inclusion of math problems in them just adds to the fun.
beecheralyson's review against another edition
5.0
Brilliant. I can't wait to share this with teachers. Math and poetry and a puzzle. Simply wonderful.
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