It's Alive!: Math Like You've Never Known It Before (Grades 4-8)

The authors, junior high students and best friends David and Asa, along with best-selling author Marya Washington Tyler, took the kind of gooey, slimy, disgusting science facts that students love and turned them into hilarious math problems. Problems in It's Alive! include:

• When's the last time you had your students calculate their chances of being eaten by a crocodile?
• The percent of seats at Yankee Stadium that do not have gum stuck to them?
• The number of skin scales they lost in the last...