Greg Tang

Clear and simple riddles force you to reconsider how you approach a visual counting conundrum. Everything is already arranged into precise columns during math drills in public schools, but this book will show you, groups of objects, in a more haphazard arrangement, just like in real life. Even though I excelled in math, I always had trouble, and the book's lesson or teaching component is its last set of answers. I picked up some pretty useful math application tactics, but more significantly, show more I discovered that there are other perspectives and methods for solving issues that we "don't have time" to learn in school. show less

Tang created this book to help children who dislike math overcome this fear. The book has cute rhymes and riddles to help create a fun math atmosphere. It helps children to think, but without them knowing they are actually solving math problems.

The Best of Times, written by Greg Tang and illustrated by Harry Briggs, is an informational picture book that explains multiplication strategies to young readers. The multiplication strategies explained throughout this book include: multiplicative property of zero, the multiplicative identity property, and other strategies for multiplying numbers up to 10.
The author does a wonderful job of explaining each mathematical concept to the reader. Each page is themed according to an animal, and show more the text is presented through rhyming phrases. The illustrations are vibrant and full of detail, while also providing a visual representation for each mathematical concept being presented. show less

Simple riddles prompt you to look at a visual counting conundrum in a different way. On your public school math drills, you'll see everything grouped into perfect columns already, but this book will show you groups of things in more random formation, like real life. I was stumped EVERY time (and I was an excellent student in math); the answers at the end comprise the lesson/teaching aspect of the book. I learned some really good strategies for practical math applications, but more show more importantly, I learned that there are different ways of seeing and approaching problems that we "don't have time" to learn in school. I hope my son gets as much out of it as me, and exposing this to him at the right age could be the most important thing I can do for his math education! show less