Title: Not just for kids
Product review: This is a great book for a certain time in a kid's mathematical development, probably somewhere between first and fourth grade. It might be challenging on first read, but could then become a friend to return to again and again as the child matures.Although the book's content is extremely elementary, it illustrates some fundamental ways of thinking about math that can be important at any level, and it presents them in a humorous, friendly way. In particular, the habit of immediately looking for a clever solution to a problem is invaluable. Finding ways to count sets without actually listing their members is also an important skill in more advanced math. To see the value of developing general methods, think of trying to count how many bridge hands there are by listing them one by one.This book gives the reader a taste of how real mathematicians think. And it's fun.
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