I'm Trying to Love Math
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Children's Choice Award winner Bethany Barton applies her signature humor to the scariest subject of all: math!
Do multiplication tables give you hives? Do you break out in a sweat when you see more than a few numbers hanging out together? Then I'm Trying to Love Math is for you! In her signature hilarious style, Bethany Barton introduces readers to the things (and people) that use math in amazing ways -- like music, and spacecraft, and even baking cookies! This isn't a how-to math book, it's a way to think differently about math as a necessary and cool part of our lives!
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Barton's droll follow-up to I'm Trying to Love Spiders begins with a clear-cut statement: "If you ask me, math is not very lovable." Moreover, the narrator indicates, "4 in 10 Americans hate math." At this, an adorable purple alien appears, asking a question "Did you just use math to explain how much you don't like it?" that introduces the book's conceit: wherever you go, there you math. And the alien is on to something in loose pen-and-ink art, it describes the subject's ability to bring people together, its contributions to music, navigation, and food. Math loathers may not be comforted as Barton shows the usefulness of both simple arithmetic and massive equations, but it becomes quite clear that the narrator and readers can't help but run into the stuff ("Wait. Baking is just a bunch of math, isn't it?"). A hilarious meta exploration of the ubiquity (like it or not) of mathematics. Ages 4 8.
