Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers In Classic Poems (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
I personally found this book to be very interesting as it involves math. I like how this book found the fun way of utilizing poems to represent math problems. Another characteristic that I liked were the pictures and how they really brought the poem to life. I personally found the poems to be very funny and full of fun. Many of the poems are interesting and colorful. This book however is not meant to teach math but to maybe be a segway for when you teach a section in math. Maybe as a teacher you can find a poem that goes along with addition. These poems would be a lot of fun and can possibly make math class a lot more interesting. The poems vary in length and topics. I would like to use these poems with children who are like in the 3rd grade. Overall this book is a great example of a subject book that can help teach a class in math class. Summary: In the book “Edgar Allan Poe’s Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems”, by J. Patrick Lewis we are given many poems and are given a math problem to figure out! Not only do we get fun pictures we get interesting and expressive words to help us solve our problem!Audience: This book is intended for Elementary Students in any math class struggling with a concept. Appeal: This book is a good fit for students who love math or for students who dislike math. Through the fun pictures and goofy expressions of stating math situations we get more than the traditional problem and answer. Implementation: This is a book I would use before my class started math. I would probably do this once or twice a week. I would put a certain poem under the ELMO, the class and I would then discuss what the answer could be and how we reach that answer. Bibliography: Lewis, J. P., & Slack, M. H. (2012). Edgar Allan Poe's pie: math puzzlers in classic poems. Boston: Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt.
What do You think about Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers In Classic Poems (2012)?
Good cross-curricular bulletin board puzzlers here! Enough for a whole school year!
—babykillz
I read this with my grandson and we worked out all the math problems. Fun!
—Gshaw1470
