Do you hate math? Me too. That's why I drew this book. Unfortunately, I'm a teacher and it's my job to teach math. And even worse, all my students love math. They love it so much they're always trying to make me teach it to them. Isn't that just awful?
He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View from Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Later the Same Day, Talking Books, and Sunday Morning.
He has also worked as a business writer at Maclean's and the Financial Post, a feature reporter for The Globe and Mail, and a freelance journalist for other magazines including Saturday Night. Brown is also the editor of What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men a 2006 collection of twenty-nine essays by prominent Canadian writers, including Greg Hollingshead, David MacFarlane, Don Gillmor, Bert Archer, and Brown himself, who asked his contributors to write on subjects that they'd like to discuss with women but had never been able to.
Brown has also published three books, Freewheeling (1989) about the Billes family, owners of Canadian Tire, and Man Overboard. He is an occasional contributor to the American public radio program This American Life. The Boy in the Moon, a book-length version of Brown's series of Globe and Mail features dealing with his son Walker's rare genetic disorder, Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome (CFC), was published in the fall of 2009.
In January 2010, Ian Brown won British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for his book The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son. The award is Canada's richest non-fiction prize and offers the winner a $40,000 prize. In February, 2010, the book won the Charles Taylor Prize, a $25,000 prize which recognizes excellence in literary non-fiction.
Brown is married to Globe and Mail film critic Johanna Schneller.
This book was so funny and clever, all while teaching math concepts in a very straightforward, approachable way. Students will love goofy Mr. Brown and find students they can identify with in each chapter devoted to a different type of math. The illustrations are bright and fun and make the jokes land all the better. This book is perfect for math haters or math lovers!
This book has a charming sense of humor that adds a fun twist to doing math. As I read, I found myself eager to see how the kids would discover math around them and alongside Mr. Brown. Definitely a book I will recommend to 3rd graders I know.