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Dazzling division

games and activities that make math easy and fun
2000
Teaches basic and more advanced division facts and skills, covering such topics as divisors, dividends, quotients, remainders, prime numbers, and long division, presenting practice games and activities.

What's a pair? what's a dozen?

2000
An introduction to number-related words.

Math for smarty pants

1982
Text, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.

The Brown paper school presents

the I hate mathematics! book
1975
Events, gags, magic tricks, and experiments to change one from a mathematical weakling into a mathematical heavyweight.

Sideways arithmetic from Wayside School

1989
Contains over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers.

Angles are easy as pie

1975
Discusses facts about angles and their relationship to triangles, quadrangles, polygons, and circles.

Edgar Allan Poe's pie

math puzzlers in classic poems
2012
Poet J. Patrick Lewis reimages Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," Langston Hughes's "April Rain Song," and other classic works, and offers parodies and puzzles that encourage critical thinking and math skills.

The unknowns

a mystery
2009
When people start vanishing from a godforsaken trailer park next to the Folsom Energy Plant, two eleven-year-olds investigate using mathematical clues that were hastily planted by their friend Mrs. Clarke before she disappeared.

The writing on the wall

2008
Math-loving eighth-grader Tess learns that sometimes life, like algebra, has no solutions and that she must take risks and find her own answers.

Math doesn't suck

how to survive middle school math without losing your mind or breaking a nail
2007
Actress and math theorem coauthor Danica McKellar teaches math concepts introduced in middle school, the period when many young girls lose interest in math, using entertaining examples.

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