How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit on a Plane?: Answers to Your Most Clever Math Questions Hardcover – June 6, 2017

Very fun math, critical thinking and clever fun facts to work out math problems. My students have enjoyed it.

My kids LOVED this book. The arithmetic itself is relatively simple, maybe a 3rd grade level, but it was great for teaching kids problem solving and how to approach math in general.

A collection of curious questions gathered from children and answered with math.This kind of reminds me of a kid version of WHAT IF?. Entertaining tidbits for the curious. (And some solid math too.) The questions in this are both silly and serious, helpful and just fun to know. I like that the author breaks down the steps of how to answer the questions using math (and often shares tricks how to make the math a little easier...more shortcuts are included in the back of the book). The math in here usually involves multiplication and division, sometimes geometry, often unit conversions. It may make some kids' eyes go crossed but if the math overwhelms you, you can still see the answer and marvel at things like the insane number of guinea pigs it would take to fill an airplane or how many people would need to hold hands to encircle the Earth. The layout is quite attractive, and should draw in more readers.

Wonderful fun book! It is full of fun facts! The kids are waiting for the next one! Warning, you will be hearing the fun facts over and over again!

Might be a little over my granddaughter's head but I found it interesting. She's getting it for Christmas so we'll see how she likes it. She's only 9.

I have a full collection of Laura's books. They are well written. I enjoy reading them with my grandchildren.

Clever concept, clever questions, adequate answers, but the writing style of the answers does not sparkle like the concept and the questions. So the book did not inspire me to continue reading it..

Bought this as a gift for my grandson and he loves it. He does not realize that he is actually doing math problems.