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A review by zephyrfgray
Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems by J. Patrick Lewis
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