In this updated edition of Its Alive!, the kind of gooey, slimy, weird, and disgusting science facts that kids love are turned into hilarious and engaging math problems! Possibly the funniest math book ever written, this new edition is a must-have for teachers and their students looking for an extra challenge!
Its Alive! The Funniest Math Book Ever! combines the best of Its Alive! with the best of Its Alive (and Kicking!), plus 40 all new problems, to produce what is without a doubt the funniest math book ever! Teachers will especially appreciate the new editions inclusion of a chart linking each problem with specific Common Core Standards, and another chart linking each standard to specific problems.
Marya took the kind of gooey, slimy, weird and disgusting science facts that kids love, and aided by her son and his best friendboth in middle school at the timeturned them into hilarious and engaging math problems. Simple in design but valuable in content, this book will thrill and excite your middle schooler by replacing typical, run-of-the-mill math problems with the stuff theyre really thinking about, like:
- How many unknown-to-science microbes live in your belly button?
- What percent of refrigerators contain n.l.r.m.i.t. (no longer recognizable moldy icky things)?
- How many times is gas passed in the average 60-minute math class?
- How many gigabytes does your brain hold?
Math is fun when we get to figure the cost of a meal at the AfterMath Restaurant, with foods like Macaroni and Sneeze, Deep Fried Lint and Hot Sludge Sundae. Even the comprehensive answer key, including step-bystep detail and problem-solving strategies, is hilarious! Math and science combine with laughter in Its Alive! The Funniest Math Book Ever! Math class will never be the same!
1. Please dont.
2. Slosh
3. Whats all that racket!
4. Ice pops
5. Ill
be with you in a jiffy.
6. Doggie menu
7. It wasnt me!
8. Crayfish smoothie
9. Popcorn gone bad
10. Crumbly
11. Shrimp, huh?
12. PFFFFT
13. Dandelion
doughnuts
14. Im coming as a beetle
15. Fly tracks
16. Close the door!
17.
Stop staring!
18. Bring in the SWAT team
19. Care to go for a swim?
20. Star
pupil
21. Cheese!
22. Lawn ornaments
23. Its normal
24. But it was good dirt
25. Stop the car!
26. Let me in!
27. Drowning in droplets
28. Eliminate waste
29. Pooky
30. Bats in the tent
31. Flapflapflapflap
32. Thank you, garbage
people
33. Did you remember to flush?
34. Slimy
35. Tern, tern, tern
36. Zit
city
37. Look closely
38. Worm digging
39. Panda poop
40. Ants Rule
41. Hot
dog
42. Snarly
43. Supersweeper
44. I dont get it
45. Where did my mailbox
go?
46. Skin scales 25 cents a pound
47. Smile!
48. I thought I smelled
49.
Coffee anyone?
50. A very hairy ordeal
51. Locker room
52. Nematode sea worms
53. Adventure awaits
54. Classical Kazoo Orchestra
55. Mirror, mirror
56.
After School Science
57. Human vs. pineapple
58. Youre next young man
59.
How many didnt bite?
60. Great grandmas knitting
61. Whole wheat tofu
surprise
62. Fungus among us
63. Fuzzy apple logic
64. Let us see your hair,
David
65. Shhhhh
66. N.L.R.M.I.T.
67. Sludge
68. No, were not buying a TV
69. Camp Torture
70. Heinz and Gunter
71. Gum on the seats
72. Chicken noodle
sloop
73. Candy jar
74. People shed too
75. Lumps
76. Taj Mahal
77. Longest
toe
78. An acre of pizza, please
79. Pair of socks
80. School janitor
81.
Overflow
82. Cans of Spam
83. Old, fuzzy grapes
84. Frog eggs
85. Eyelash
mites
86. Cow gas
87. Lucky Charms
88. Cereal boxes
89. Back yard fertilizer
90. Taste buds
91. Grocery store bulletin board
92. Leeches
93. Royal
Canadian Bagpipers
94. Do you smell something?
95. Tick eating habits
96.
What to do with $3,500?
97. ASA
98. Glub
99. Mucus moves
100. Cellmates
101.
Asas airplanes
102. Up, up, and away!
103. Floss em
104. Saliva mouth
105.
Whats in my water bottle?
106. Breathe in
107. Arteries
108. Live with Asa!
109. A rat can fall
110. Censorship!
111. Smork
112. Beetle in the soup
113.
Good to know
114. Sneeze
115. Giant squid eyeball
116. My birthday is July
31st
117. Belly Button Biodiversity
118. Heavy thinker
119. In the Aftermath
Restaurant
120. Care to Join Us?
Marya Washington Tyler, M.Ed., enjoyed teaching middle school students in Wisconsin, Idaho, Washington State and Alaska for 18 wonderful years. She continues to serve teachers by writing math books such as Real Life Math Mysteries, Its Alive!, Its Alive (and Kicking!) and On the Job Math Mysteries, all of which have been best sellers in the field of gifted education.
David Washington, now Partner Group Manager at Microsoft, with his best friend Asa, helped conceptualize the idea for the first edition and develop the problems while still in middle school.
Asa Kleiman, now a freelance illustrator, was the genius behind most of the humor youll find in Its Alive! The Funniest Math Book Ever!
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