Math Attack!
This is a funny and imaginative story about a young girl and her anxieties about math. Her brain goes into overload with its circuits breaking that her brain ends up exploding. The young girl's brain starts to spout numbers all over the place. Teachers and students are running for cover, police are stung by numbers, dogs are barking, and worst of all the main character can't seem to make it all stop. However, at one point, the her brain seems to start working again and she figures out the answer to the math question that started all this mayhem. Unfortunately, the moment that the problem seemed to have been resolved,the teacher asks another math question. This story seems to be a funny way of depicting how young children might feel learning the multiplication tables for the first time. It is a comedic way to show the journey that everyone faces when given a math problem that just seems too hard.
Watch this video to hear a children's librarian discuss Math Attack! by Joan Horton. In this children's picture book, each time the teacher asks, What's seven times ten? a young girl experiences a severe case of arithmetic strain. ""Numbers flew out of my head by the score. They stuck to the ceiling; they bounced off the floor!"" Soon, exploding numbers are taking over her classroom, her school then the entire town!
Watch this video to hear a children's librarian discuss Math Attack! by Joan Horton. In this children's picture book, each time the teacher asks, What's seven times ten? a young girl experiences a severe case of arithmetic strain. ""Numbers flew out of my head by the score. They stuck to the ceiling; they bounced off the floor!"" Soon, exploding numbers are taking over her classroom, her school then the entire town!
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