{"id":2227,"date":"2022-01-24T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2022-01-24T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:42:35","slug":"entertaining-math-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/2022\/01\/24\/entertaining-math-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertaining Math Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cMath\u201d &amp; \u201cEntertaining\u201d, &#8211; Do those words belong together???&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks to a grant, our library is able to purchase a number of books for children that promote STEM learning. Our newest purchase is the \u201cSir Cumference\u201d series. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each book is well illustrated and tells a fictional story about the adventures of Sir Cumference, his wife Lady Di of Ameter, and their son Radius. \u00a0A different math concept is introduced in each story, which helps children see how math can be useful and fun. This is a series of eleven books, and all but one is on Accelerated Reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I\u2019ll let you in on a secret: I\u2019m 59 years old, and I enjoyed reading some of the books. I may have even learned a few things. \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2022\/01\/IMG_0513c-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2022\/01\/IMG_0513c-1024x755.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Cumference Book series\" class=\"wp-image-2228\" width=\"512\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2022\/01\/IMG_0513c-1024x755.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2022\/01\/IMG_0513c-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2022\/01\/IMG_0513c-768x566.jpg 768w, http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2022\/01\/IMG_0513c-1536x1133.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2022\/01\/IMG_0513c-2048x1510.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This project is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Nebraska Library Commission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMath\u201d &amp; \u201cEntertaining\u201d, &#8211; Do those words belong together???&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks to a grant, our library is able to purchase a number of books for children that promote STEM learning. Our newest purchase is the \u201cSir Cumference\u201d series. &nbsp; Each book <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/2022\/01\/24\/entertaining-math-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Entertaining Math Books<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[26,28,27],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","category-local-interest","tag-math","tag-sir-cumference","tag-stem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5uT5W-zV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}