6/20/2023 0 Comments Zero book by kathryn otoshi![]() ![]() ![]() I had neither seen nor heard of this book, but I fell in love with it from the very first page. One of my students recently lent me her copy of Zero, by Kathryn Otoshi. But sometimes when the mathematics doesn’t jump out and hit you on the head there can be a lot more room for conversation. There are some fantastic, mathiest-of-math books that are engaging and fun and fantastic for children. It’s not that I think kids will only swallow the math if we sneak it into their literary diet. ![]() I’m much more partial to the subtler side of the continuum, where the author weaves math into the fabric of the story, rather than fitting a story onto the math. On one side of the continuum the books practically shout, “I am a MATH book! I will teach you something!” On the other side, the math is so subtle that you might not even notice it’s there. It seems to me that children’s math books fall somewhere along a continuum. ![]()
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