Pam Calvert

This is a fun book that involves multiplication and division in “real-world” examples. It is a low reading level so it should be simple for students to understand. This book is useful in the classroom when students are struggling with multiplication/division because it shows funky examples of multiplication/division. There is also a sequel that follows this boook

Uses fairy tale characters to create a story on multiplying fractions by whole numbers. This would be good especially for kids having trouble grasping the concept of multiplying with fractions; dealing with fractions in general is stressful for most. Would be great to be included in a lesson in the classroom as well.

Ten years after the Queen defeated him, Rumpelstiltskin is back to collect a debt or he will continue to cause chaos. It is up to the Prince to take care of Rumpelstiltskin by taking the magic multiplication stick or the problems will multiply. This book takes an easy-to-understand approach so that readers can learn how to multiply.

Multiplying Menace is a great spin off of the popular fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin. I think this would be a great book in the classroom because it brings math into a story that the kids might be familiar with. By having this familiar story in the classroom it could make students more inclined to listen because of the fairy tale aspect of the topic.