Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. In this enchanted story full of butterflies and magic, children learn all the ways to group numbers to make 10 — an essential building block of math!
Buy Now Ages Double Puppy Trouble Learn the power of doubling in this sweet, zany tale of 2 puppies… then 4, then 8, then 16…! Mouse teach children the essentials of addition and subtraction! Buy Now. Learn multiplication and division, like, yesterday! This book covers fractions, decimals, percents and more — perfect for a struggling middle schooler! ISBN Author Danica McKellar. Release 02 August Subjects Education Mathematics Nonfiction.
Search for a digital library with this title Search by city, ZIP code, or library name Learn more about precise location detection. Sep 24, iloveromance rated it it was ok. I'm in my almost-mid fifties and I checked out this book just out of curiosity. I have always been absolutely horrible at math. It gives me terrible anxiety and I stupidly thought that by reading this book, I would suddenly be a math genius. And then I woke up. Seriously though, I've been curious about these books ever since I first heard about them years ago so I'm glad that the mystery of them has finally been resolved.
Truth be told, I wasn't as impressed as I had hoped I would be. Admittedly I'm in my almost-mid fifties and I checked out this book just out of curiosity. Admittedly a lot of the material went over my head like I said, math is Unfortunately it's a very popular book at the library so I don't have a lot of time to do that. But I did read a little of it.
It's a cute book and I really wish books like these had been around when I was in school which would have meant that Danica would have been much too young to be writing math books! Things are explained pretty clearly provided that you have a basic understanding of the stuff , and the illustrations are really cute.
I could have done without the references to boys and the references to cute girl things. I have a feeling that boys could get a lot of benefit from this series as well, but they seem completely geared toward girls. That being said, because I'm on a time crunch when it comes to reading this, I may pick it up again in the future.
It does have some interesting information that would definitely come in handy. Nov 22, Eddie rated it it was amazing Shelves: non-fiction , instructional , educational. This book didn't suck. Actually it was VERY good. The author does a great job of presenting a multitude of ways to work fractions and decimals in this book.
She gives lots of mnemonics that help to solidify the information for future use. I think that this would be a GREAT help to anyone having difficulty with these principles and even be helpful of they are doing well. Now if I could only get my kids to read it I highly recommend it, it was a very interesting and worthwhile read. I look for This book didn't suck. I look forward to reading others in the series.
Jan 27, Mary rated it it was amazing. I wish I had found this book when I was still teaching math to fifth-graders. Though most of the stuff is pretty basic for teachers , McKeller did give me a couple of new ways of explaining concepts to kids that I would have used in my teaching.
This book seems like it would also be good for struggling math students, though I would expect they would resist reading it because of their difficulties. Jul 20, Marcyjo Chachakis rated it it was amazing. Loved this approach to helping parents understand math, especially in a remote school environment.
EVen if it didn't quite match what the teacher was teaching, it gave enough of a foundation that it was easy to follow the teacher's examples. Jul 30, Kitten rated it it was amazing. I made a report on why she was my hero when I was in 6th grade. Mar 22, Jennifer M. My son has dyscalulia and he found the book helpful. Easy to read and very informative. I purchase this for every young person I know who is struggling with MS math.
Who knew that Winnie from Wonder Years had grown up to be an amazing mathematician and scientist. She really does make learning math fun but it is a little condescending. Which is surprising because her success and her intelligence isn't reflected in the book. It is geared towards young girls who think they can't learn math and she makes it fun and relatable especially for girls who are really into things like fashion and lipstick and fingernail polish and friends And she succeeds for the aud Who knew that Winnie from Wonder Years had grown up to be an amazing mathematician and scientist.
And she succeeds for the audience to which she is writing. Oct 17, Lp is currently reading it. I actually had to pony up Real Cash to get this, as my library doesn't have it yet. I've heard raves about this, but it seems too girly even for me Horoscopes? Really necessary? But I have kids learning math right now--not middle school yet, but I didn't do so well in math actually did well, but didn't go beyond basic high school math , so I need to get prepared for that. It really says something about my desperation to ha I actually had to pony up Real Cash to get this, as my library doesn't have it yet.
It really says something about my desperation to have kids who don't hate math that I even considered getting this book, much less paying Cash!
I heard the author on Terri Gross [Correction: Science Friday], and personally found her annoying--she was on with these older more established female mathematicians and kept interrupting them! But they seemed to like her. Also, she kept saying the reason we don't do as well in math is because of our love of pop culture. Funny, the only reason this book has gotten any press is because of your place in pop culture as Winnie on "the Wonder Years. Personally, I always thought I didn't do well in math because my teachers thought math was for geniuses--if you don't get it, it's because you're not meant to get it aka too dumb.
But even with all this, I am thinking the book might be worth a look. From what I hear, it explains math in non-math terms, and the narrative format might be appealing to a right left? Feb 01, Genevieve rated it really liked it. This is a book attempting to make middle school math interesting, relevant and understandable for middle-school girls. I think the way she explains math is great and I found the book very interesting and fun. Her examples are usually of the more vapid "how to get a great deal on boots" variety, but hell, that's life, and math is relevant to life.
I want to say that she should expect girls to be interested in math for its own sake, or not play in to stereotypes about girls being only interested i This is a book attempting to make middle school math interesting, relevant and understandable for middle-school girls.
I want to say that she should expect girls to be interested in math for its own sake, or not play in to stereotypes about girls being only interested in things like makeup, drama club, etc, but I think this book is specifically targeted at the girls who feel intimidated by math and do have interests like that.
And in that regard, I think it's a success. If a girl is interested in math for its own sake, she might not need this book! However, I am, and I liked the book. She constantly refers to appearances, but at least she also talks all the time about intelligence and being helpful to friends.
And hey, she's an actress! Aug 21, Kate rated it liked it Shelves: desperate-attempts-at-self-improvem , you-are-woman-hear-you-roar , oh-so-amusing. This is, like, TOE-tally written for junior high girls who just, like, don't get math. Since junior high was my mathematics trainwreck, I decided to pick this up and see if it would help me finally understand what I, like, SOOOOOOoooo didn't get back then. The cover looks like a teen magazine.
There's a lot in there about how it's okay to be a smart girl. Boys will still like you. And then there's the math stuff. I finally understand functions and other math concepts that never made ANY This is, like, TOE-tally written for junior high girls who just, like, don't get math. I finally understand functions and other math concepts that never made ANY sense to me.
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