Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School

Louis Sachar has written some pretty great children's books and I read many of them back in elementary school. This was one of them, and is part of the weird Wayside School series, where nothing makes sense if you try to understand it. However, if you don't try, and just sit back and enjoy this book for its weird storytelling, it become a fun experience. In this installment, you're introduced to some pretty weird math, like 'elf + elf = fool'. Wait, what? Well, read this book and find out!

I learned I'm *not* as smart as a 5th grader!" I do well on the game show with its facts, but these puzzles are hard! Good brainteasers for clever kids and patient adults who can think 'laterally' as well as logically. I especially liked how the answer section is organized, first with a section of further clues, then with more text to encourage the reader to really really try, and finally the answers."

Louis Sacher’ Wayside School books are popular among school kids since they are so wacky and fun, but this book really challenges the minds of the reader. See at Wayside School they don’t add and subtract with numbers, but with letters, so you need to use logic and code-breaking skills to figure out how to solve the equations. This would be an excellent book to keep in the classroom to use as supplemental logic problems for scaffolding or a bonus challenge problem of the week scenario. Highly entertaining and fun read!

This book doesn't have much of a story line, but it has brain teasing math. So, pull out your Math Book, no, wait, pull out your Spelling Book. The wacky teacher expects her students, and you, to add and subtract words. This hands on book will tie your brain in knots!

for older kids, definitely a fun way to incorporate math into reading. I found myself having a great time figuring out the puzzles!

Old Children's Book. Liked it as a kid, but haven't read it in years.

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