In The Sticky Problem of Parallelogram Pancakes fourth and fifth graders solve a variety of developmentally appropriate problems involving number sense, geometry, measurement, algebra, data, and probability. Each problem links directly to state and national standards and increases students’ capabilities with foundational and computational principles. The Math with a Laugh series reinforces basic skills and improves retention in class, over the summer, or at home. Ruopp’s teaching notes provide answers and help you reinforce the concepts behind the problems, then extend them into other mathematical learning.

Math with a Laugh brings together math practice and comedy-some would say for the first time-offering students and teachers funny and functional skills-development experiences. Longtime math teacher Faye Nisonoff Ruopp provides problems carefully crafted to help children strengthen their mathematical thinking. Faye’s former student, star comedian Paula Poundstone, sets the problems within funny stories so entertaining to read and solve that students will become immersed in the mathematics.

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You Can't Keep Slope Down: And Other Skill-Building Math Activities, Grades 8-9 (The Math With a Laugh Series)