Math Is Hard News Today

I stared at the last question on my daughter’s first-grade math homework as if doing so until my eyes grew callouses would cause an understanding of what it was asking

Its Pi Day (3.14)! Because were always in the market for a good book about...pie (yum!), last year we recommended Matt Jamess Nice Try, Charlie! (Groundwood) (and before thatPie in the Sky, Pie Is for Sharing andPies from Nowhere), and this year were serving up three recent books featuring pie: Andy Harknesss Wolfboy (Bloomsbury), Shing Yin Khors The Legend of Auntie Po (Kokila/Penguin), and Gillian McDunns Honestly Elliott (Bloomsbury).