Illustrated by Lane Smith. This kid goes to school and her teacher comments that everything in life can be looked at as a math problem. Such as: if you have twenty minutes before the bus arrives and it takes five minutes to walk to the bus but first you have to spend five minutes to get dressed, eight minutes to eat breakfast, one minute to brush your teeth, seven minutes to pack your backpack, two minutes to put on your shoes- will you make it in time? (I made that one up). Suddenly she can’t help seeing everything as a math problem, and they quickly become overwhelming (and a lot more complex than what I wrote). I thought it kind of amusing the subject line on the publication page noted this as being about ‘math anxiety’. I didn’t know that’s a thing? (though it makes sense). Anyway, she’s so tired of all the numerical logic struggles solving in her head finally relieved to go to bed at the end of the day. But has an even worse dream about math. And the solution was to turn it into another kind of thing, mentally. Which I thought was so clever. Great illustrations, fun concept and wow I bet a lot of kids can relate.
Completed on 7/20/24. Borrowed from my sister.
