- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (3 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747569126
- ISBN-13: 978-0747569121
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 563,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Louis Sachar: 'One of the few masters of American fiction' Independent on Sunday Praise for 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School': 'Thirty clever, fast-moving stories that describe the bizarre events at Wayside School ... each story is refreshingly different' Guardian Praise for 'Holes': 'An exceptionally good novel' Sunday Times
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Why does elf + elf = fool? How many meals will Miss Mush, the lunch teacher, have to cook for the food to taste as bad as it smells? These Sideways Arithmetic problems may look puzzling at first, but you can use real maths to solve them, and the answers are perfectly logical. There are lots of clues and hints; plus, all the answers are in the back of the book. Best of all, all the kids you read about in Sideways Stories from Wayside School are here to help you! Try solving these, and more than fifty other maths brainteasers, along with the kids from Mrs. Jewls' class. You'll learn alot about maths but you'll be laughing too much to notice!
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After writing Sideways Stories from Wayside School, I received over ten thousand letters from kids, all wanting to go to school here. Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
It was very challenging, and it had wonderful mind-boggling puzzles that kept me working for hours and hours!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The book contains 55 problems, of 4 different types.
The first type is addition problems, where the numbers have been replaced by letters and you have to work out what the letters are worth. All the problems can be solved logically, without having to resort to guesswork, but this type of problem is best when the words chosen are connected in some way, which is not the case here. Mom + mop = yoyo is just lazy puzzle setting.
The second type is the same idea, with multiplication problems. An issue here is that the questions require understanding of long multiplication, which is not the method taught at a lot of schools these days.
The third type is logic problems. You are given the answers of a group of students to a quiz, plus some clues, and you have to work out what the correct answers were. Again, the problems are well designed, requiring you to use slightly different methods each time to solve them, but none of them are especially interesting.
The fourth type is true / false worded logic problems which are frankly a bit dull.
Overall, there are a handful of good puzzles, but the rest are too samey, too old fashioned or too uninteresting.
The first type is addition problems, where the numbers have been replaced by letters and you have to work out what the letters are worth. All the problems can be solved logically, without having to resort to guesswork, but this type of problem is best when the words chosen are connected in some way, which is not the case here. Mom + mop = yoyo is just lazy puzzle setting.
The second type is the same idea, with multiplication problems. An issue here is that the questions require understanding of long multiplication, which is not the method taught at a lot of schools these days.
The third type is logic problems. You are given the answers of a group of students to a quiz, plus some clues, and you have to work out what the correct answers were. Again, the problems are well designed, requiring you to use slightly different methods each time to solve them, but none of them are especially interesting.
The fourth type is true / false worded logic problems which are frankly a bit dull.
Overall, there are a handful of good puzzles, but the rest are too samey, too old fashioned or too uninteresting.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I thought the book was entertaining, and kept my mind thinking for hours at a time. This book is a great boredom buster!
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