to your drinking straws.
to your broken printer.
to your last box of toothpicks.
to the Lego bricks in your house. Make magazine not only shows the reader how to make certain items - it inspires them to creative new items of their own. It's been great fun to watch our son imagine the possibilities. What would your young creative genius build?
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 This recent find makes a cool gift for a second or third grade child. Package Calculator Riddles by David Adler with a simple calculator and you have a perfect mix of humor and math! Here's a sample:
My boys have the math curse. - When I tell my 6 year old asks what time Dad will be home-- he translates the time to the number of minutes until arrival. - When shopping with my 8 year old -- he races to tally the total cost before the cash register. It’s a bit like living inside a math story-problem 24/7 -- which is exactly what happens in Jon Scieszka's MathCurse.  The main character, in this imaginative picture book, is sucked into a world where everything he looks at, or thinks about, becomes a math problem.
Stopping to by a chocolate bar on the way from home, I reach into his pocket and find a $5, 1 $1 bill, a quarter and a penny. George Washington is on both the quarter and the $1. Abraham Lincoln is on the penny and the $5 bill. So which is true: a) 1 Washington equals 25 Lincolns b) 5 Washington equals 1 Lincoln. c) Washington equals 100 Lincoln. d) 1 Lincoln equals 20 Washington's. Entertaining, mind teasing, and humorous -- your math lover is sure to enjoy this book x 2. Here’s a perfect book for coin lovers!  Young coin collectors at our house love this reference book. Santa Claus brought this gem at Christmas time and it’s been a hit ever since. Full of color pictures and complicated value charts, my seven year-old loves to use this book to find out more about the coins in his collection. With each new addition to the coin collection comes a hurried search and detailed reading of the corresponding text.
That’s good wholesome fun for pennies on the dollar!  I don’t know what I love more about this book:
1) The fabulous illustrations 2) The great rhyme and word choice 3) Using it to teach the telling of time 4) The picture at the end of book showing the exhausted Momma bunny at the end of her day --- and how I so understand her plight! |
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