Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School

Tired of boring math problems that make no sense? What if you could solve puzzles so weird, they're actually fun? Get ready to turn arithmetic on its head and discover a hilarious new way to look at numbers, where the wrong answers might be the right ones. You'll join the wacky students of Wayside School and learn their sideways logic. Through a series of brain-bending stories and puzzles, you'll master upside-down thinking, solve ridiculous riddles, and start seeing math not as a chore, but as a delightful game of creative problem-solving.

Louis Sachar is the Newbery Medal-winning and National Book Award-winning author of Holes, celebrated for making complex ideas accessible and fun for young readers. He first invented the quirky world of Wayside School while working as a teacher's aide at a California elementary school. The silly stories and logical puzzles he created for his students, inspired by their own classroom antics, eventually became the beloved Sideways Stories and the uniquely challenging Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School.