Math Potatoes: Mind-stretching Brain Food

I really enjoyed how this book turns math into poetry. The problems in this book are great because they can easily be related to real life. The back provides the solutions and the steps into finding them. This is a must have for your Math library.

This book is sort of a clever introduction to some different math concepts. It goes over groups of things, subtraction, addition, and a little multiplication. It's set up in a fun rythmic way, and the illustrations are bright so as to get kids attention.

Tang uses rhyming couplets to help students learn problem solving strategies for making math easier, such as looking for patterns and symmetry and groups of equal size. My students always had aha moments as I read this aloud and explained how to use the strategies suggested by Tang. See his other books: The Grapes of Math, Math Appeal, Math For All Seasons and The Best of Times. Colorful illustrations and fun clues through poetry assist children to solve the problems. Clever!

Not just any regular math children's book, but one that combines rhyming poetry, patterned illustrations, and challenges! This is a great book to introduce with a math concept. It combines poetry, and fun patterns in order to create organizational counting methods. This is a flexible book as well, because you can create some of the materials in a real life situation for class, and turn it into a fun activity that way. Also, the poems can be turned into song as well. The patterned illustrations help the young readers to count in a formulated manner, rather than getting overwhelmed and lost while attempting to count a high number of objects.

Greg Tang has mixed poetry and math in a fun yet challenging way. Kids will love the illustrations as much as the poems. The math puzzles that the pages contain include concepts such as symmetry, multiplication, addition, estimation, subtraction, quadratic equations.

This is an example of poetry because the author uses it to make us laugh and to give us a message about solving math problems and easier ways to do that. This is a great book of poetry because it's fun and has a simple rhyming scheme that makes it easy to read and listen to. Each poem is a math problem and each poem has a picture to accompany it. They deal with addition, subtraction, grouping, estimating, and multiplication.

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This book is filled with math riddles, and uses a creative way to help children solve math problems. It includes rhyming, with illustrations that match with each of the riddles.