It's Alive!: Math Like You've Never Known It Before, Paperback/Asa Kleiman

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Written by two junior high students with bestselling author Marya Washington Tyler, you can't find a more engaging, delightful, and revolting math book out there. These and other intriguing problems await your students in this book designed to teach children to translate statements and questions into mathematical equations. All the problems are based on known scientific facts. This is math. This is real. This is alive Included is a comprehensive answer key, reproducible blackline masters, and hilarious illustrations. This is math the way it ought to be-tough, fun, and...a little weird. For even more exciting and strange math problems, see the follow-up It's Alive And Kicking Grades 4-8About the Author: Marya Washington Tyler has a master's degree in gifted and talented education from the University of Wisconsin and has taught gifted and talented students for 11 years. Tyler is the author of several Prufrock bestsellers, including "Real Life Math Mysteries," "It's Alive!," and "Extreme Math," which she cowrote with her husband Kip. They have four wonderful, spontaneous, gifted children scattered across the country. The Tylers live in Ketchikan, AK, where they kayak, mountain climb, snowshoe, beach comb, and otherwise explore, photographing and videotaping the wonders of the Alexander Archipelago and Tongass rainforest around them. Tyler presently is working on a sequel to "Real Life Math Mysteries," which will feature the mathematics faced by real Alaskans: dog mushers, float plane pilots, Native carvers, sea kayak guides, and more.