More Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School facts for kids
First edition
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| Author | Louis Sachar |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Sideways Stories From Wayside School |
| Subject | Cryptarithms, Logic puzzles |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Scholastic Press |
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Publication date
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1994 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 94 pp |
| ISBN | 0-590-47762-5 |
| OCLC | 31090790 |
| Preceded by | Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School |
| Followed by | Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger |
More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School is the fifth book in the popular Wayside School series by Louis Sachar. Unlike the other books, this one is not a regular story. It is more like a fun puzzle book with characters and situations from Wayside School.
This book was created because readers really liked the puzzles in the earlier book, Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School. Students and teachers asked for more, so Louis Sachar made this special book just for puzzles!
Contents
About the Book
More Sideways Arithmetic has 15 chapters, just like its earlier version. Inside, you will find 58 different math and logic puzzles. These puzzles are designed to make you think and have fun.
To help you solve them, the book gives you "hints" and "answers." It also includes "clues," which were not in the first puzzle book. These clues give you extra help to figure out the tricky logic puzzles.
Wayside School Puzzles
The puzzles in the book are often part of funny situations involving the students and teachers at Wayside School. Here are some examples of the types of puzzles you will find:
Birthday Party Logic
In one chapter, Allison invites her classmates to her birthday party. She says that when more than two boys are together, they start acting very silly. This is shown when Joe and John arrive and start being silly. Mrs. Jewls, their teacher, turns this into a math problem: boys + boys = silly. The girls think this is funny, until they learn the same rule applies to them!
Fangs the Dog
Later, a student named Sue gets a new dog named Fangs. Another student, Calvin, thinks the dog sounds mean because of its name. But Mrs. Jewls uses arithmetic to prove that Fangs is actually a nice dog. She shows it with a puzzle: good + dog = fangs. This puzzle helps show that Fangs is friendly.
The Pop Quiz Mystery
Mrs. Jewls tells her class there will be a pop quiz next week. She says she won't tell them the exact day, but they will know when she tells them to take out their pencils. Todd, a student, figures out that if she doesn't announce it by Thursday, then the quiz must be on Friday. The other students try to use this logic for other days too. It becomes a funny puzzle about trying to predict the unpredictable, until Mrs. Jewls decides to forget the whole quiz idea!
The Flagpole Vote
The school flagpole gets hit by lightning, so Mrs. Jewls's class needs to vote on a new size. The students keep wanting more votes, often choosing the size that got the second most votes. It turns into a complicated voting puzzle. In the end, Kathy always seems to be on the winning side, so her chosen size becomes the size for the new flagpole.
