Super Specs

Math Matters®

by Laura Driscoll

When the family takes a car trip to Super Funland amusement park, Molly is trapped in the backseat with her little brother, Eddie. She's soon fed up with his teasing about her new glasses, but Molly devises a plan. Using her skills of pattern recognition and prediction, Molly convinces Eddie that the glasses give her X-ray vision and by the time the trip is over, he's begging for a pair of his own. The book ends with a page on looking at series of numbers, recognizing the rules governing their patterns, and predicting the next ones in the series. The digitally enhanced artwork clearly shows the patterns, while illustrating the story with bold colors in a cartoonlike style. A good supplement to math units, this brightly illustrated paperback also offers a bit of moral support to the many children who wear glasses.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Laura Driscoll is the author of numerous first chapter and beginning reader books, including We Are Twins and The Bravest Cat! She lives in central Connecticut with her husband and two children.

Reviews

[Maya Orama]

This book I about this girl and this boy named Eddie they were going in the car and he was making fun of his sister then Eddie was showing the picture of a solar man then they got out of the car to go get something to eat then they got back in the car and start driving agin then they were counting the cars then they were at fun land then they needed to find a parking then they fond a parking and went out side then the were wAkinG then they were at sweet tooth land then the saw the evils then they went on a ride that was could Ferris wheel then the were going on the boat ride then the plaid a gAme and they won a dinosaur then they went bake in the car and bout ice cream then they went back home and went to sleep the end