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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life Of Paul Erdos (2013)

by Deborah Heiligman(Favorite Author)
4.21 of 5 Votes: 4
ISBN
1596433078 (ISBN13: 9781596433076)
languge
English
publisher
Roaring Brook Press
review 1: I loved this book! I thought it was great and I enjoyed the illustrations. I would definitely have this in my classroom and would recommend every math teacher have this book in their classroom. I think that this book gave math a new point of view and that numbers can be fun. I love the main character how he was comfortable being himself. No matter where he was or what he did, numbers were involved. I think students would enjoy this book because its very interesting and the character is easy to love.
review 2: the boy who loved math is about a boy who lived in Budapest Hungary with his mom and when Paul was 3 his mom had to go back to work so she left him with a babysitter and that babysitter had a lot of rules for Paul he had to stay still when told he had to e
... moreat all of his food well as the story goes on i learned that Numbers to him where like rules and that no matter how much things changed in his life numbers well never change they will always be there for him at his time of need but Paul has so mane questions about prime numbers so he tried to understand him you see the thing abut Paul is that what he did not know he made sure that he knew it but as big as his world was that was and big numbers can be is a world of infant numbers and the cool part is that all the plots are of his world and how he sees it to me doing what you love is grate less
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Caity
I enjoyed reading it, and I'd recommend it as a read-aloud for math teachers.
Gabby
Good story for the budding mathematician!
Drew
Loved this! 2014 Cook Prize Winner
liss
This book was lovely.
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