I'm Trying to Love Math

This was a gift to my math-hater daughter. She loved it and change her view for math a little. Made us all smile

I teach 2nd grade and when I was in elementary school I hated math, therefore I try really hard to make math fun and engaging. This book is so fun! I love it, there are so many awesome and interesting connections between math and 'real' life. I will say 2nd grade is a little young, it's probably better for 4th-6th grade because some of the connections are little more advanced.

Such a fantastic book! Perfect for a read aloud, as it fosters lots of conversation ! I read this one to a group of 3rd graders and they couldn’t stop talking... They were able to draw parallels between themselves and the 2 voices of this story. This book helps children to see that Math is a bigger part of their lives than they may have realized: cooking, music, nature. Awesome read!

Review: I removed a star as there was so much information that it wasn’t as fun of a read for me (and I personally enjoy math). This might be a good storytime read for older kids, unless they’d likely get overloaded by information. It was kind of funny and could be more fun with an energetic reader. It was cool to see how many different basic things that everyone knows/knows about use math though! Summary: What's so great about math? Let's show this alien that there are much better things on earth than that...

This was a cute book. I read it to my 12 year old who hates math. It’s kinda cheesy but it got her thinking about all of the different ways we use math. I really like the quiz question on the inside cover.

I read everything book to be surge my Kids will like it. I’m an adult that struggled with Math as a child and I will go beyond to help my little ones to enjoy and to understand why it is important. This book was so nice, I felt it spoke to my inner girl and she was so pleased. I can’t wait to share it with my kids.

Excellent book! I am sure some of my students thought that they are a bit "too old" for a picture book, but they were enraptured, especially because the subject matter so accurately captures their feelings about mathematics! They've been given hope through humor. You will not regret this purchase!

I fell in love with this story. Great to get kids talking about math and their frustrations with math.

Quick and fun read, without realising, you learn many things that makes you love math! As a math teacher, I just liked it!

A funny book that really does a good job of describing math in the everyday world.

This book illustrates what is wrong with math education. It uses badly executed pictures (that look like drawn by a 7 years old) silly texts (that look like composed by a 9 years old) to try to - supposedly - describe what math is about. I purchased it to use with my middle school students (ages 11-13) - but it insults their intelligence. I was then thinking to use it with my 7 years old granddaughter - but it is too silly even for her. Thanks Heavens, Amazon has a pretty flexible return policy and the Purolator drop off box is close by. PS: To make my day even more disappointing, when I tried to find an envelope where I could fit this book to return it, I found out the format of the book to be quite tricky to be fitted inside normal large size envelopes.