Math Curse

Scieszka, Jon (1995). Math Curse. New York, NY: Penguin Books USA Inc.

One day after the teacher announces, "You know, you can think of almost everything as a math problem," the narrator is hit with the MATH CURSE. Completely consumed by this statement, he cannot think of anything else except math from the time he wakes up and it continues on through the day. A great book for students who love addition, subtraction, measurement and probability. This a definitely a book to keep your brain going non-stop!! Every page is filled with boxes of numbered problems that the narrator would like to figure out. Some are simple and some are strange (like "if an M&M is about one centimeter long and the Mississippi River is about 4000 kilometers long, how many M&Ms would it take to measure the length of the river?)

Illustrations by Lane Smith are very interesting and fun. The book is well illustrated and filled with color and images to catch your attention. Smith uses collage like pictures on most of the pages and even brings in some familiar pictures and characters from books previously illustrated by him.