I got the title of the book wrong. It is:
Title: Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
Author: Hans Enzensberger
Illustrator: Rotraut Berner
Reading Level: 4
Interest Level: From 5 to 9
Publisher: ST MARTINS
Copyright: 2000
Dewey: FIC
At 8:31 AM -0800 1/4/03, Barbara Currier wrote:
>At 4:36 PM -0500 1/3/03, Madden wrote:
>>Hi all!-
>>Back from the holidays- hope you all enjoyed your time! Once again I am
>>looking for lesson plans for fifth grade. I am trying to
>>tie my library lessons into the curriculum and so I asked the fifth grade
>>teachers what they will be covering for the month of January.
>>Electricity, Measurement and Geometry for Math, Building a New Country
>>for S.S. , Interpretive Comprehension of the Writing Process and they are
>>reading the Phantom Tollbooth. Please if you have any suggestions on what
>>I could do with theses topics it would be more then helpful.
>>Thanks in advance!!!
>>
>>Kathleen Quigley
>>Library Media Specialist
>>Parliament Place Elementary
>>North Babylon, NY
>>maddenk@suffolk.lib.ny.us
>
>Beware integrating math with the Phantom Tollbooth (if it is the book
>I am remembering). There is a long math problem in it which is done
>incorrectly, as it totally ignores order of operations.
>
>There is, however, a very nice little book I read to my 7th and 8th
>grade math classes during the time they were taking standardized
>tests last year, as a break and a review all at once. The math is
>sound, the explanations clear and the writing engaging, especially if
>you have a white board or chalk board handy while you are reading. A
>math devil invades a boy's dreams and challenges him to think and
>understand math, each chapter a different night, a different dream
>and a different math concept: _The Math Devil: a Mathematical
>Adventure_. I don't have any other information on the book, but thank
>you for reminding me about it. Now, I'll have to find it to order for
>my libraries.
>--
>Barbara Adams Currier
>K-6 Library Media Teacher
>(Former math teacher)
>Kirschen/Shackelford Schools
>Modesto City Schools
>
>bacurrier@charter.net
>
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