Math Curse

The book arrived in remarkable condition. Outstanding story to teach growth mindset and that math is everywhere. My fifth graders enjoyed the humor of it and solving the math problems. They wrote their own Math Curse stories and word problems. Using this book was a great narrative writing unit to start out the year.

There is so much you can do with this book and people of all ages. It is funny and applicable and fantastic.

I honestly don’t know how many times I’ve read this to my kids at this point. It’s a book we’ve enjoyed many times over. And I guess that’s all you can really ask for, right?

This is a great story to show kids how we use math skills so often in our everyday lives. The humor and logic, or lack thereof, does a great job of illustrating problem solving...sometimes the answer is just go to bed and sleep on it. My grandson enjoyed actually working through the math problems illustrated in the book on his second time through the story. This is a fun book. Fun for those who like math as well as for those who don't. Besides addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, there are problems dealing with volume, time, ordering, fractions, distance and measurement, money, and a variety of numbering systems such as binary. Not too much of any one thing, just enough to whet your appetite. A twist of logic and a play on words provides the solution to the main character's math curse. There's more than one way to solve a problem.

My son loves this book! For all the math brainstorming curious George’s this book is all so fun and exciting lol my son love the numbers and exploring these pages well written and informative.

This is such a wonderful book that I will continue to use every year in my classroom! We do something called "math happenings" where we have students think of times in their everyday life that involves using math. When we go grocery shopping we are using money and adding/subtracting, when we cook we measure and make arrays with our cookies as we place them on the baking sheet, etc. this book explains how the main character sees math everywhere she goes and has a math curse! After reading I put a "math curse" on the class and encourage them to find the math at home and it really works! (3rd grade)

I love that this book offers great ways GG or children to see math in their daily lives, rather than isolated sheets of computations in public schools.

So I bought this to maybe give to a 5th grader I’m tutoring as summer reading. The thing is, the text toggles between word problems and nonsense/dream logic, which I get is the point. But: if you stop to do the word problems, you lose the flow of the story; if you don’t stop to do the word problems, you’ve missed the learning opportunities and emphasized the idea that math is gobbledygook. It would be really good to read with a 4th or 5th grade class at the beginning of the year and then return to the word problems for impromptu group work when there’s a spare 15 minutes in a class or when one of the problems would make a good kickoff conversation. Or maybe put the problems in a jar in a math center or something…. I can even see kids wanting to do them as rewards for finishing early. You could maybe read the book to kick off a word problems unit from 3rd to maybe 6th. I can’t send the book home with my math averse student, but I might try to figure out how to use it in sessions next year.