Pigs In The Corner: Fun with Math and Dance

by Amy Axelrod, Sharon McGinley-Nally (Illustrator)

The Pigs are ready to do-si-do at the Lefooters Club, when they find out their dancing teacher is sick and can't attend. But the show must go on, so Mr. Pig offers to take his place calling the steps to the dance. There's just one problem -- Mr. Pig has never called a square dance before!

Genres: Mathematics, Childrens

40 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Amy Axelrod is the author of many picture books, including The Pigs Will Be Pigs Math Series (Simon & Schuster).
Her debut novel, Your Friend in Fashion, Abby Shapiro (Holiday House 2011) was based on her childhood growing up in the 60's.
"Funny, lively, sensitive- a real winner! (Kirkus)
Amy's latest novel was co-authored with her son, David, who works in publishing.
The Bullet Catch:Murder by Misadventure (Holiday House 2015) is a Junior Library Guild selection.
Amy lives with her husband in New York's Hudson Valley in a house built in 1729. When she isn't writing, she's reading, baking, biking, bird-watching, or dreaming about all the places on her bucket list.

Reviews

[Kimberly Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pigs I. The Corner is a nice book that teaches about the concepts of spatial sense and direction through learning how to square dancing. I enjoyed this because I could see how some may not think that teaching direction would be a math concept, but I see it as very important. I would incorporate this into a group activity that could use dancing after reading.