A Day With No Math - Another Book that Links Math and Literature

Who wants to read about math? Who even likes it? Many, many times I have heard a parent of one of my students say, "I understand why my child cannot do math. I was never very good at math, either." Right! So you weren't good at reading; so, your child should be illiterate? So you don't like to play sports; so, PE should be optional? I don't think so.
 

My goal in life is to make people, students, adults, children, comfortable with math; to see its value; to learn to at least like it. After all, there isn't a day that goes by that you don't use math in some form. Did you read a clock today? Did you buy something with money? Did you go to the home improvement store to buy paint? Did you cook or keep score while you played a game? That is all math. Useful - right?


Ask yourself or your students, "What would happen if suddenly there were no numbers?" To find out, read A Day with No Math by Marilyn Kaye, published by Harcourt Brace Jaovanovich, Inc. in 1992. It is a great read aloud book. It's one I have used in workshops and in my own classroom with children, college students and adults. The book demonstrates how mathematics plays an important role in our daily lives and shows the reader how time, measurement, money and other mathematics are used everyday. The story helps kids to understand that math is a part of all aspects of our every day life and without it, our life would be such a mess. Try reading this if you hate math or even if you love it, and you will be surprised at how much math you really know. It will give you a different appreciation for math 

This is a book teachers will treasure to have in your classroom library. Currently, it's difficult to find, but Amazon seems to have a few copies