Math Appeal: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles | 
 enlarge | Author: Greg Tang
Creator: Harry Briggs
Publisher: Scholastic
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 375815
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 1
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0439210453
Dewey Decimal Number: 510
EAN: 9780439210454
Publication Date: April 2004
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In this book you'll learn to seeHow very clever you can be.We'll teach you tricks to help you add,Some day in math class you'll be glad! In this follow-up to MATH FOR ALL SEASONS, Greg Tang underscores the importance of four basic rules in problem-solving. Keeping an open mind, looking for unusual number combinations, using multiple skills (like subtracting to add) and looking for patterns will guarantee any child success in math. In MATH APPEAL, Tang continues to challenge kids with his innovative approach to math.
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 "Math Appeal" Appeals To Kids! February 12, 2003
J. Tam (Ontario)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
One of my favourite books to read to my students is The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang. And now along with it, is Math Appeal, the sequel. Once again, what I love best about Tang's books is that it provides strategies for students and it shows them that thinking does not need to be linear -- that thinking outside the box shows creativity. Tang shows that there are different methods to an answer and that the thought process is just as important. As a teacher, I'm looking for higher level of thought from my students, for creativity and for them to be able to explain their thinking. Each page in Math Appeal becomes a daily challenge for the students, who in turn eagerly attempt these challenges. We're looking forward to the next book!
Fabulous Mental Math Challenge August 18, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Greg Tang gives us one more fantastic book. You will want to share this book with your "thinkers." I use this book with my fifth graders to help foster mental math skills. Tang teaches us how to look at groups of objects in an organized kind of way, and to add the objects quickly and efficiently. My son who is in kindergarten loves to look at the pictures, and challenges himself to add the objects. We have lots of fun!
A fun way to do math May 21, 2008
Stanley Cup (Holly Springs, NC)
Like all of Greg Tang's other math books, he takes math problems, sets them to rhyme, and gets your kids solving math problems. He gives a clue in the rhyme to help kids organize their counting patterns, and then the counting begins. The art work in his books is vibrant, bold, and fun. For example, he has children counting chili peppers in red and green hues while the opposite page has a cactus mariachi band playing at sunset. He's got partying peapods and a singing clam to help you count star fish. He also throws in some facts about the items you are counting (example--"with little suction cups for feet..." used for the starfish or "they somehow know to make a V, instead of flying randomly..." for the geese) which add a nice touch to his book. This is a fun way to teach kids about math and groupings without doing rote math facts.
Great Math book September 29, 2008
Deidra Froebel
This is a fun book for math. I teach 4th grade and my students love it. Great pictures!
 Goodness how sad. February 23, 2005
Colin Pritchard
1 out of 46 found this review helpful
This is the first experience I have had of the Amazon "Search Inside" marketing ploy. What a pity the publishers (I am assuming that they were the ones who selected the extracts) were so concerned about not divulging the contents of the book, that they completely failed to further my initial interest which was bordering on excitemnt.
Publishers, please make sure that whoever selects the 'Search Inside' extracts of a book you are promoting is knowledgeable enough to attract potential buyers.
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