Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin (Charlesbridge Math Adventures)

It is wonderful book that helps a child that has not yet been introduced to the concept of multiplication. The book is well written, very simple to understand and well worth the price. What you do with it it is really up to you. The book can be used as one and done or as a go to reference that a child can use as a mental hook to ground their mind as far as the concept is concerned. GREAT BOOK!

This is a wonderful story with beautiful, engaging, interesting and highly detailed illustrations. The story help kids visualize, actually "see" the dry, sometimes seemingly uninteresting properties of multiplication in ways that they can definitely relate to. Properties such as multiplying by zero, multiplying by a fraction, multiplication as addition of groups of equal size are illustrated beautifully and creatively through the story line. It is great and the book should be in all elementary and middle school libraries.

Calvert has created an interesting vehicle for teaching children the differences between multiplying with whole numbers and with fractions. Geehan's expressive paintings provide a perfect backdrop for this fairytale, complete with a wholly menacing Rumpelstiltskin. This book provides multiple opportunities for children to reason about the effect of Rumpelstiltskin's multiplication stick. The idea that multiplication as scaling is an important one for children to learn (alongside the idea of multiplication as repeated addition). This important mathematical idea of multiplication as scaling is seamlessly woven within this timeless story.

My daughter and I enjoyed this book for math, however, the reason for 4 stars was the illustrations. The illustrations are weird. I also wish the last page explaining multiplication of fractions (making the number smaller), what to pay attention to in the book, and basic info on why we use multiplication, be placed at the beginning of the book. This is a fun story to use to make math lessons engaging for struggling math learner's or kids who love to include stories in math like me daughter does. The story is about a boy that outsmarts Rumpelstiltskin. Overall, a good book that I'm glad I bought for my daughter.

My students love this book. It is a great way to bring math and literature together. While reading it to my students, I would stop to allow them the opportunity to figure out the mathematical equations.

Great book

I read this book to my 4th grade students before teaching a lesson on multiplying fractions by whole numbers. They loved this book and it paired well with the lesson! Would recommend!

This book is a delight. It carries on a beloved fairy-tale, mixing in the math in a fun way. I am using it for a drama lesson. Unfortunately, it mixes third grade and fifth grade standards.

both my kids loved it

Fun educational book. Expensive though.

Maths tutorials are sometimes rather tedious but this book is great. A fun twist on an old story with clever maths intermingled throughout. My 6 year old loved it

This book has a good story but not sure what age group is it meant for. Maybe too childish for 10+ old children? Found the book print to be not so good

Engaging story, my 4 and 8 year old both liked it.The added bonus is the mathematical theme.