Reddit reviews Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School

1. I know these people aren't graphic designers, but PowerPoint comes with default fucking slide templates that allow you to make information presentable. This is barely readable in parts strictly because of the haphazard way it's put together.
   
   
2. If you want to be taken seriously, don't type like a 13-year-old girl texting her friend about white privilege.
   
   
3. The "math" slide reminded me of this. "Math" is not "phrase + phrase = word". Don't call that math.

Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School might be up her alley.

More specifically: http://www.amazon.com/Sideways-Arithmetic-From-Wayside-School/dp/0590457268

This one?

When I was a kid I loved Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School as well as More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School. There are some tough logic puzzles in those books.

Given both like art, would a low-end drawing tablet be in the cards?

For Rylee, maybe an art kit composed of the following: Tachikawa nibs and holders and ink, or a finetipped pen set Deleter manga paper, and a grown up sketchbook a la trendy Moleskine or Pentalic or classic art student hardcovers like so. As she develops as an artist she'll learn more whether she likes different sizes, thicker or thinner paper, or toned paper. Maybe throw in a few making of books from her favorite series (like IDK this one for Avatar the Last Airbender or this one for Spirited Away.) Getting a good making of book for a movie or animated film can be life changing. For me, even though I read it years after Brother Bear came out, this was an enlightening read about the movie making process and has some seriously gorgeous art. I haven't read the one for Moana yet so I have no idea whether it leans more toward text (like the making of Hunchback of Notre Dame did...so very little art in that book) or pictures, but it's more recent than Brother Bear. And yes, most of us artists have these books on our shelves, albeit with different movies/series depending on taste. Some of the Marvel movies have excellent making of books too. ;)

I'd recommend some drawing books, but the ones I know all have nudity in them and I don't know how you'd feel about that. I'd caution against 'how to draw manga' books as a general rule, but I owned a few and some art very, very good at teaching how to direct the eye for storytelling.

For your younger, I'd suggest many of the same things, except maybe not the nibs and ink because sharp and messy. If you get either of them colored art supplies, I'd either make sure they get the exact same set of markers or colored pencils, or get one markers, the other colored pencils. It can be rough sharing an interest with a sibling. And maybe some Sideways Math from Wayside School (I'd also suggest all three Wayside School books, they're brain bendy in a good way). Another brain tickling book (for me it was, anyway) was the Phantom Tollbooth. Maybe a how to draw horses book. A making of book or two about movies she liked - Frozen, maybe? IDK. Maybe a Goldiblox set to get her engineer brain in gear. Oh! I forgot about Spirit, the animated horse movie no one remembers.

Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School?

I remember working out a puzzle like this as a kid from some old 1980s book. This one, maybe?

Another book of number puzzles I loved when I was a girl about her age were the Sideways Arithmetic books. They add and subtract words to get another word, and so you have to apply logic to figure out which number each letter represents for it to add up correctly. I learned algebra mostly from the book Algebra the Easy Way. It introduces principles of algebra by having characters in a fantasy story face problems that require them to develop the algebra techniques to solve, and it comes with exercises to practice. There are other books in the series, including one for trigonometry and one for calculus.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School!

This is a great introduction to the concept of variables and it's really fun, too!

Please get her the books, too. I bet she's also good at reading, and if it a little challenging you can certainly read it to/with her. They're broken into very short chapters.

https://www.amazon.com/Sideways-Arithmetic-Wayside-School-Sachar/dp/0590457268

That book was my intro to algebra before I had started doing algebra and I'm definitely sure I got it in 4th grade.

yeah but like it's not real math