Me + Math = Headache

by Lee Wardlaw, Deborah Stouffer (Illustrator)

Third grader Jeffrey hates math and is sure an assignment to find three uses for math outside of school is ridiculous.

45 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1986

About the author

Lee Wardlaw swears that her first spoken word was 'kitty'. Since then, she's shared her life with 31 cats (not all at the same time!) and published 31 award-winning books for young readers, selling more than one million copies world wide. Her newest title is My Book of Firsts: Poems Celebrating a Baby's Milestones, illus. by Bruno Brogna and published by Red Comet Press/Abrams.

Lee's other books include Won Ton - A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Children's Poetry Award and the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award (among others); Won Ton and Chopstick, an NCTE Notable Poetry Book; and 101 Ways to Bug Your Friends and Enemies, recipient of the Forward National Literature Award for Humor.

Lee has a B.A. in Education, an AMI-Primary Diploma from the Montessori Institute of San Diego, and is finishing her M.Ed.

A former teacher, Lee continues to keep up-to-date with children, tweens, and teens by presenting frequently at schools, libraries, bookstores, and conferences. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA, with two dog-disdaining cats.

Reviews

[Chadi Raheb]

از سری کتاب های عزیز از دست رفته‌م :(
خیلی ظالمانه و بی انصافانه‌ست که بسته کتابای محبوبت که به دقت از بقیه که نمیخواستی شون جدا کردی, به خاطر یه اشتباه احمقانه, قاطی بقیه از دست برن :(
چقددددر این کتابو دوستش داشتم. چقدر هربار بعد از ناامیدی ناشی از اخلاق گند معلما و درسای گندترشون بهش پناه میبردم و حالم خوب میشد. چه تصویرسازی‌های خوبی داشت. هنوز به وضوح بعضیاشونو توی ذهنم میبینم.
بعد از این همه سال, هنوز به پیروی از اون دختره که دوست شخصیت اصلی بود, تا هرجا که ذهن پردغدغه‌ی همیشه مشغولم اجازه بده, یادم می مونه که طعم آدامسم در هر روز هفته فرق کنه. که هفته‌هایی داشته باشم با ۷ طعم آدامس و اگه یادم رفت امروز چه روزیه, طعم آدامسم بهم کمک کنه به یاد بیارم. گاهی هم البته تقلب میکنم.
و چه معلم ریاضی خوبی داشت.
همینا دیگه
امروز آدامس توت‌فرنگی بخورین

[CynnieRose]

Rereading the autographed to my son copy this morning made me remember reading it with him. I met the author at the Chinook Bookstore in 1993. I cannot wait to read it to my grandson.