nPosted on September 8, 2018
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nMath Curse is such a great book, in my opinion…
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It starts out with the words:
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nOn Monday in math class, Mrs. Finbonacci says, “You know, you can think of almost everything as a math problem.”
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nOn Tuesday I start having problems…
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nPretty soon the kid in this book starts thinking about almost everything in his life as a math problem! And of course that’s because math connects to almost everything.
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nAnything that can be counted or measured has to do with math. Anything that has a shape or a size pertains to math.
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nMath is…everywhere!
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nToday’s famous birthday, Jon Scieszka, shows us all of this with a lot of humor – and illustrator Lane Smith injects even more humor!
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nScieszka, who was born on this date in 1954, has written lots of other books, too, including a series called The Time Warp Trio. Scieszka also does good stuff to encourage kids to read. For example, he started a internet-based program that encourages boys, in particular, to read; it’s called Guys Read. This is because research shows that boys tend to read less than girls (and not just in the U.S.!).
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nBy the way, I checked out “Guys Read” on the web, and it is under reconstruction right now – with promises of bigger and better in the near future. Apparently the program had been going strong for 15 years before this update…
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nScieszka was the first United Nations Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, during the years 2008 and 2009. He got to travel all over, meeting kids at schools and libraries and meeting kids’ authors at conferences.
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nScieszka writes one series called Trucktown. There are board books for the littlest kids, picture books for toddlers, early reader books for kids learning to read, and even activity books. I’ll have to look into these books – I know a certain little kid who loves-loves-loves trucks!
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nAlso on this date:
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nChild hero (and current activist) Ruby Bridges
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nIndependence Day in Macedonia
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nPoet Jack Prelutsky’s birthday
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nInternational Literacy Day
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nAnniversary of the completion of the Statue of David
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nAnniversary of the use of math to stop an epidemic
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nPremiere Day
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nNational Day in Andorra
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nBirthdays of artists in the so-called “crafts”
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nPlan ahead:
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Check out my Pinterest boards for:
Check out my Pinterest boards for:
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nAnd here are my Pinterest boards for:
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