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Review of the book The Adventures of Penrose The Mathematical Cat
Some of us are math enthusiastics: we love math, think it is full of beauty, logic, and patterns; we think it can be fun, exciting, amusing even. (I include myself in this category.)
And then some of us don't care for math, didn't like it in school, didn't do well in it, don't want anything to do with it anymore. And I'm sure there are people in between these extremes, too. As a teacher, you would like your students to belong to the first category, of course. Now, I sincerely think that the biggest factor in whether student ends up liking or hating math is what kind of math teacher and teaching he/she gets. Parents' attitudes play a role too, but teacher's attitude to math and the way math is taught are the weightiest factors, I feel. But books such as The Adventures of Penrose The Mathematical Cat The storyline includes Penrose the mathematical cat who seems pretty lazy but often gets interested in her mistress' math papers and thus ends up learning about this and that in math. But this isn't a book about adding or fractions or ratios or algebra or any of the normal topics in school math. It is about those various fascinating and fun mathematical ideas you seldom encounter in school curriculum. Via Penrose, they are presented in an easy way for kids to understand.
Each chapter spans about four pages, has a short storyline, and often a problem or challenge in the end. Answers are included in the end of the book. For its mathematical content, it would be suitable for grades 3-9 maybe, but even younger kids can enjoy some of it. I liked the layout a lot; it is very clear and spacey with generous amount of pictures to hold the little reader's interest. You could almost say this book is about "Math appreciation (Actually art and math are connected in may ways - you'll find even that in this book.) Math is so much more than your basic facts and fractions and algebra. Via The Adventures of Penrose
Review by Maria Miller, MSc, author of HomeschoolMath.net The Adventures of Penrose The Mathematical Cat |
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