It's Alive!: It's Math Like You've Never Known It Before...and May Never Know It Again | 
 enlarge | Authors: Asa Kleiman, David Washington, Marya Washington Tyler
Publisher: Prufrock Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 194034
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 60
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 1882664272
Dewey Decimal Number: 510.76
EAN: 9781882664276
Publication Date: June 1, 1996
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Product Description
The authors, junior high students and best friends David and Asa, along with best-selling author Marya Washington Tyler, took the kind of gooey, slimy, disgusting science facts that students love and turned them into hilarious math problems.
When’s the last time you had your students calculate their chances of being eaten by a crocodile?
The percent of seats at Yankee Stadium that do not have gum stuck to them?
The number of skin scales they lost in the last 20 minutes?
The number of flushes it would take to overflow their city’s wastewater treatment tank?
Or, how many gigabytes their brain can hold?
These and other intriguing problems await your students in this book designed to teach children to translate statements and questions into mathematical equations. All of the problems are based on known scientific facts.
This is math. This is real. This is alive! Included is a comprehensive answer key, reproducible handouts, and hilarious illustrations. This is math the way it ought to be?tough, fun, and . . . a little weird.
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 Exceptional treatment of mathematics with humor! March 25, 1999
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Kleiman and Washington combine the best of three worlds: titillatiing humor, farout science, and solid core mathematics in this useful book. You get your money's worth with this one, including an error-free answer key with clear explanations of the steps involved in answering each problem. Mathematics problems delve into the depths of basic math, with no algebra or beyond needed. Great for gifted and talented younger in need of a challenge or basic older students in need of a jumpstart. This will do it.
YOU WON'T FIND A FUNNIER MATH BOOK November 19, 2004
Dr. Lewis Mondale
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
You won't find a funnier math book, except maybe the sequel: IT'S ALIVE AND KICKING!! The math is solid, and useful for anyone who needs a little motivation to practice their basic skills (multiplication, division, fractions, percentages, etc.) The book is full of amazing true science facts, like the number of saliva droplets expelled in the average lecture. Not for the squeamish.
Teachers: Make it into a CONTEST! July 1, 2007
Mary L. Oreilly (Chatham, NJ USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I used this book and it's sister, It's Alive and Kicking, as the basis for a 3 day contest for my sixth graders in math. Each day, I paired the students randomly. Three points were given for a correct answer and label on the first try, 2 points for a second try, and 1 point for getting the correct answer after a hint from me.The pair that received the most points, won a blue excellence ribbon which they wore for the rest of the day. The competetion was fierce. My students never worked this hard for a grade. They loved the disgusting math facts about germs, tape worms, sneezes, etc. I worked with 2 other teachers so that 13 math classes a day were involved in the contest. This means 26 ribbons a day for 3 days. There were very few duplicate students from day to day so everyone felt they still had a chance to win a ribbon. Some questions were quite easy and some very, very difficult and tricky. I can't wait to use these 2 books again next year.
A real hit! November 5, 2006
J. Owens
I teach a gifted math class and my students love these challenging problems.
 Interesting but not a whole lot to it February 11, 2008
K. Nuako (Jackson, TN, USA)
I bought this book to engage my daughter who is doing prealgebra. The ideas are interesting but the questions tend to deal more with division and multiplication than requiring any degree of difficulty or intrigue to resolve. The book is rather short and the problems could be finished in a couple of days if the child has any degree of interest.
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