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Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School (Wayside School)
by
Louis Sachar
From the Newbery-award winning author of Holes"Everyone take out your spelling books," said Mrs. Jewls. "It's time for arithmetic."Sue is so excited for her first day at Wayside School. But things at Wayside are far from normal-and Sue's teacher, Mrs. Jewls, is completely wacky. She expects the students to add and subtract words! Sue has never heard...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
September 1st 1994
by Scholastic Inc.
(first published 1989)
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Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School goes with Louis Sachar’s Sideways Stories from Wayside School, using a similar story type and the same characters. This book can be used as an upward extension for students who have a good understanding of algebra. The later chapters are more appropriate for middle school math, but students in grades 4-5 can try to solve the arithmetic in the early chapters. Because the arithmetic uses “sideways” logic, students who rely on the algorithms to solve math wi...more
Oh my god! I loved this book! I used to spend hours doing the puzzles. I swear one of Mr. Buhler's extra credits came staight out of this book.
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I was so excited to be doing the homework the kids from Wayside School were doing. My mom was always doing logic puzzles herself, and as a kid I would sit with her and help her with them. So with a little bit of explanation from my mom that these were like that, I could get into it. I must've done the problems over and over again many times.
Its mainly about sue not understanding + and - words. So for example apples + oranges and sue said fruit but Im not going to tell you the answer because you need to read the story to figure it out! In the mean time they have all these questions they need to answer. The class wants to now the answers but the teacher forgot all the answers. At the end of the story the teacher finds the answers and tells the class.
Want to help a young kid get on the right track with higher-level math? After they've fallen for the original Sideways Stories from Wayside School, they should give this book a shot. In short, the "reader" finds himself in Wayside School's bizarre math class, where equations all go like this:
elf
+ elf
fool
Words + words = words... the thing is, your job is to figure out what the numbers are. For starters, the "f" in the answer has to equal ...more
elf
+ elf
fool
Words + words = words... the thing is, your job is to figure out what the numbers are. For starters, the "f" in the answer has to equal ...more
What? I had no idea that this book had actual PUZZLES in it! As a kid I thought it was some sort of dada-ist experiment with absurdity and language. I wasn't that amused either. But, as a superfan of the Wayside School series, I still gave it three stars.
The wacky arithmetic doesn't make much sense, but it's absurd in the best way. Not quite as good as the narrative Wayside School books, but still plenty of fun. I gave a copy to a math teacher at the end of a school year.
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I really didn't do much of the mind puzzles in the book strictly because I want to do them with my son when he gets older. It was a fun book and I think I could handle going to school at the Wayside school.
I remember reading this when I was way way younger; Probably 3rd or 4th grade and I absolutely loved it. I used to read it ALL the time, and I've probably read it like 20 times as a kid!
Maybe this book deserves a better rating but I can distinctly remember being *so* frustrated at this book because I didn't understand any of the puzzles when I was little.
This was strange as would be expected from Louis Sachar. Some laughs. This reminded me why I loved the Wayside School books. I may just have pull them off my shelf and reread some chapters. I feel some nostalgia for gross lunches, dead rats infiltrating the classroom, teachers with cowbells, and the missing floor (was it the 19th floor?- I can't remember).
If you + me = we,
u=? m=? e=? w=?
It's an interesting book to read for Maths genius.
I'm sure that it's a book that I can never finish.
u=? m=? e=? w=?
It's an interesting book to read for Maths genius.
I'm sure that it's a book that I can never finish.
I really brought this home for my mathematician husband. And I was right. He was greatly amused. These are very clever books.
The Wayside School stories are my absolute favorites--after Holes-- that Sachar wrote
Algebra style math puzzles and problems, in the Wayside School style.
Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School by Louis Sachar (2004)
cool and makes you think differently!
LOVED IT!
LOVED IT!
This book made my daughter start to love Math.
I like the book because it is very funny
Problem solving puzzle fun.
lots of fun.
It was a fine book
love it also
I found this book in a box from when I was younger. I LOVE this book. It is a bunch of fun math problems such as "ewe + dell = woods", where you try to figure out the numbers that are represented by each letter, as well as some good word problems. It makes it especially fun because he uses the characters from his "Wayside School" series, so for any out there that are fans of the Wayside School and fun logic problems, you can't beat this.
I learned I'm *not* "as smart as a 5th grader!" I do well on the game show with its facts, but these puzzles are hard! Good brainteasers for clever kids and patient adults who can think 'laterally' as well as logically. I especially liked how the answer section is organized, first with a section of further clues, then with more text to encourage the reader to really really try, and finally the answers.
I think this book is really cool.
My 4th grade math teacher was especially fond of using this book in her class. Every week or so, we'd start off class with a problem or two from it to see who could solve it the fastest.
I was severely not-fond of them after that.
I was severely not-fond of them after that.
I've just bought myself another copy of this book, after not having done these problems in ~15 years. They're hard!! I was much smarter as a little kid than I am an adult...
So much fun.
So much fun.
Ugh...math. Even Louis Sachar's wonderful Wayside School can't make math more entertaining or enjoyable. I do not recommend this book to fans of the series.
This was a total let down from the other Wayside School books, you had to do crazy math and puzzles, it wasn't just a fun relaxing read.
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Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books.
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