Sir Cumference and the Viking's Map

Kids will love math.

I love to use living books for homeschooling my kids, and was excited to try out the Sir Cumference series with our unit study on the Vikings. What a dud! There are so many fantastic, well-written books for kids that engage and teach. This one left us all underwhelmed. The characters and "adventure" are dull, the dialogue is below even Jack and Annie level... even my 7 year old was unimpressed. We'll keep looking.

Both of my sons have enjoyed the Sir Cumference books. The stories are entertaining and they introduce various topics in math: shapes, angles, geometry, measurement, multiplication, patterning and place value. The Viking's Map follows the adventures of Per and Radius as they try to decode Xaxon Yellowbearyd's map to find the treasure. Chased by bandits, they struggle to understand the grid locations on their map. A fun introduction to graphing, the story makes learning fun.

The Sir Cumference books are great for kids interested in math. My 8yo son, who loves math, devours these, though my 8yo daughter who is not interested in math, finds these uninteresting as well. But they teach concepts in a really great, fun way.

My 5 year old grandson loves these books. Creative use of words for math terms even makes them fun to read to him for this 'math phobic' grandma. The stories are cute and he doesn't realize it yet but he'll be hearing those math terms later in school. The author had a very good idea here.

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All of the Sir Cumference books are a huge hit with our 6 year old. She trades her baby teeth (when they fall out) to her father for these books, rather than having a tooth fairy come to collect!

Good, clear explanation of math in a fun story. Recommended for elementary school aged children. I'm a former elementary and preschool teacher and principal.

The children enjoyed it but not sure how fixed circumference is fixed as a concept just yet!

This book came with most of the pages stuck together. When I tried to pull them apart gently it ripped the pages.Very disappointed in this.

Great book to add to my picture books with a math theme.