Contains twenty-one activities centered around homes, elements of construction and design, and the financial aspects of homeownership designed to help students understand how mathematics fits into the real world.
Presents twenty-five poems for grades K-2 that incorporate math concepts, accompanied by several suggestions for further activities in the classroom and at home.
When Aphrodite Wigglesmith, a thirteen-year-old, Harvard-educated mathematics genius, returns home to teach remedial math to middle school students, both she and her students end up getting unexpected lessons.