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Math Curse

by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 1995

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When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.

Subject
scienceeducation
Genre
humormysteryfantasyliterary fiction
Themes
childhoodimaginationteachers
Audience
childrenspicture books
Form
poetry

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