Books for Young Mathgeeks
goodmath | March 7, 2007 As promised, another review of a childrens math book. Tonight, my daughter and I read "Rabbits, Rabbits, Everywhere: a Fibonacci Tale" by Ann McCallum.
This time, I have absolutely no complaints. "Rabbits" is a beautifully told story, with delightful artwork, which makes the basic idea of the Fibonacci series understandable to a first grader. It's a wonderful book, which I recommend absolutely without reservation. If you have a child around 1st grade age, buy this book.
The book tells the story of the town of Chee, where the Pied Piper settled after he got the rats out of Hamelin. The…
goodmath | March 5, 2007 I recently had the opportunity to get hold of a collection of children's picture books with math stories. A fellow scienceblogger had been contacted by a publisher, who offered to send review copies of their books to interested SBers.
The publisher turned out to be the folks who publish the "Sir Cumference" books. My wife bought me a copy of the first of that series as a joke, and my daughter immediately appropriated it, and absolutely loved it. So I requested copies of a large bunch of their math adventures, and I'll be posting reviews as my daughter and I finish them.
The first one that…