Fun, but challenging

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	• Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School Louis Sachar Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004 - 112 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It's great

Although this book looks like a kid's book, it is really for teenagers and older. It is full of math puzzles, so if you have a bent for figuring out puzzles, don't let the cover and title put you off. It's not really arithmetic -- it's more logic puzzles. I loved this book, and so did my high school aged kids.

Fun, but challenging

As someone who has always been a math person, I loved this book when I was in 4th grade. I was able to do the problems in it and thought it was a fun different approach to learning about math and using logic. I think that this book can be still a fun brain teaser even for adults, as I am one now :). I would say that for many younger Sachar readers this book has a high chance of being over their heads unless they have an adult help them through it, as it has almost an algebraic approach to it. Personally, I think this book is fantastic, but I would not recommend it for anyone looking for just an entertaining story. This is a book of math riddles.

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This is not a story

My 10 year-old loves Louis Sachar in general and the Wayside books in particular. After devouring the 3 in the boxed set, he begged for more Wayside School stories. I searched amazon and found this and ordered it and he was so excited when it arrived that he dropped what he was playing and tore upstairs to read it.

He came down in 5 minutes - SO disappointed. He claimed the book 'is not the same'. I took a look and sure enough - it's a book of puzzles. There is no narrative, no story.

Maybe the puzzles are fun - but we were looking for a story. Personally I don't think that the description here made it clear that this is not in fact a story. I wouldn't have ordered this book if I'd realized what it was.

If you're looking for puzzles - go for it. If you're hoping (as we were) for another installment in the Wayside School stories - this is NOT it.

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Mind twisting fun

Louis Sachar is at his best. This book is packed with Mathmatical mind benders. And yes EARS + EARS = SWEAR does add up, just do the math Wayside Style. We gave this book to our Mother as a Mother's Day Gift. She is a highschool Math teacher and she loves it.

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"Everyone take out your spelling books," said Mrs. Jewls. "It's time for arithmetic."
Sue is so excited for her first day at Wayside School. But things at Wayside are far from normal-and Sue's teacher, Mrs. Jewls, is completely wacky. She expects the students to add and subtract words! Sue has never heard of anything so ridiculous. She knows adding apples plus oranges is impossible...or is it? Anything can happen at Wayside School.

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