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you said you thought the LoF books were a hoot, but my eyes glazed over and my brain went slack when I browsed it! We are dealing with a rock-bottom math person trying to guide a mathy kid here!! I thought I wasn't mathy either until I signed up for the Living Math forum and over the years have been relearning math through the math literature books listed on the forum owner's website. Math stories are a great way to learn/relearn math. I now find that I do have some math ability and because I'm learning it from stress-free stories vs. textbooks, my interest in math has soared and I'm able to keep up somewhat with my very mathy son's interests. I strongly recommend the Living Math forum and website for those who haven't heard of them: http://www.livingmath.net/ (go to reader lists tab for booklists organized by math topic) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LivingMathForum/I also strongly recommend the Murderous Maths series. My son, who loves Life of Fred, finds MM even more of a hoot.  Visit the official site for more cool stuff: http://www.murderousmaths.co.uk/I've found that the Book Depository offers more competitive prices for buying them new (shipping is free worldwide): http://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=murderous+mathsThis is only personal opinion. I don't profit by recommending these books. Good luck!
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you said you thought the LoF books were a hoot, but my eyes glazed over and my brain went slack when I browsed it! We are dealing with a rock-bottom math person trying to guide a mathy kid here!! It is never too late to become mathy! I get graduate students who totally do 180s on the subject of math person-hood after taking our classes (mostly women who think they aren't good at math). It always makes me sad when people (again, mostly women) shut themselves off from such a beautiful and useful subject, generally because they had a crappy teacher in the past or someone told them they couldn't do math, or they were never taught fractions and that made algebra impossible etc. One of my goals in class is to remove math phobia and return self-confidence, and the results are stunning. Yes, you can do math. Yes, you can learn to love math. Even as a mom. My students do it all the time.
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For US customers, Horrible Ray is THE way to go for Murderous Maths, Horrible Histories, and Horrible Science books, magazines, and you've not experienced history until you've seen the Monty Pythonest HH TV show. http://www.horriblebooks.com/Not related to Ray, just a Horrible repeat customer. JB
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Kate, you might also try a couple of books by Johnny Ball, called "Go Figure" and "Why Pi" -- DS8 has been so addicted to them for years that we had to buy them because we were wearing out the library's copies. We haven't tried LoF yet but we do intend to, this summer, so thanks for the extra recommendation!
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I second Horrible Ray for LOF and Horrible books - fabulous service with a smirk.  He even gave me a fanciful title when he sent me my first LOF book (for DS7), which just arrived last week.
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That's funny. I seem to have ordered the first two LOF books from Horrible Ray completely by accident, through Amazon. I hope that the books are all they're cracked up to be.
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can't say enough good things about the LOF books we love them over here...and Kate the dds have corrected me when I'm wrong or miss something, I'm not very mathy either...
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Those look to be just what my niece (9) would enjoy. Thanks.
My son (4) is into fractions, but doesn't understand multiplication, so it might be something I will get him for later, too.
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you said you thought the LoF books were a hoot, but my eyes glazed over and my brain went slack when I browsed it! We are dealing with a rock-bottom math person trying to guide a mathy kid here!! It is never too late to become mathy! I get graduate students who totally do 180s on the subject of math person-hood after taking our classes (mostly women who think they aren't good at math). It always makes me sad when people (again, mostly women) shut themselves off from such a beautiful and useful subject, generally because they had a crappy teacher in the past or someone told them they couldn't do math, or they were never taught fractions and that made algebra impossible etc. One of my goals in class is to remove math phobia and return self-confidence, and the results are stunning. Yes, you can do math. Yes, you can learn to love math. Even as a mom. My students do it all the time. This recommendation alone makes me want to buy these for "my son". LOL I'm an artist who has a dad who told her that she could never become an architect because "You're not good in math."
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Thanks so much for the great recommendations, but I have to say, you guys are killing me! You expect ME to get enthusiastic about math, too?! Seriously, thanks for the pep talks
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