Some good ideas for patterns, tricks, fun and learning I can use for that Eureka class this Fall.

A great book about math. So many fun problems, mathematical ideas are well explained, and the characters in the book are fantastic. I especially like the exclamation explanation for factorials.

There is so much that's been written about education, but a pet theory of mine is that education can snowball. If you can teach a child to read in a way that doesn't make reading terrible, they are likely to read themselves for fun. There is something similar for math, if you can make it fun, there is so much mathematical intuition that can build up just from playing around with concepts. As a child, this book hit that sweet spot. It was never "assigned" to me as a homeschool lesson, it was on the bookshelf and I would open it up in my free time and play around with the various math games and tricks. And it accidentally gave me confidence and experience with concepts that are helpful to this day.

This book is a great addition to any classroom library and can also be used as "filler" for when kids finish activities early. In fact, because the problems are so fun and engaging, I bet many students will try to finish their work early to get to this. A lot of the problems throughout this book can also be used on a math homework menu--to give students a choice in what they want to work on.

I loved this book as a kid! Upon re-reading I found it really dry and the 'tricks' not very entertaining. But as a kid I thought it was the best, so to each their own!

I only vaguely remember this book from my childhood days, but I think I really liked it!

Loved this book as a kid

Good activities for my math-inclined but workbook averse kid. :)

This is a fun read. I enjoyed it, although most of it is above my students' ability levels. There's a few neat things in here. I used this to develop a couple things for my puzzle curricula.