A lovely book that goes old school and it gets your brain working!
Erma's gran sets little maths questions - starting small at first but then they get quite complicated!
Lovely little illustrations too.

Erma Does the Math is one of those picture book filled with hidden golden nuggets. Readers hear about Aunt Erma's job as a female aeronautic mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the 50s.. Topics like segregation and women rights are subtly touched up, and throughout the story Aunt Erma challenges Tameka by having her solve a variety of everyday math problems. This book will spark a love of math in readers.

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4 stars! I am a math teacher and so a sucker for a math book! Celebrating her grandmother's birthday Erma does math throughout the book with beautiful illustrations.

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This was an incredibly creative storybook relating the way a girl learns math through her grandmothers clever questions. This maybe a bit advanced for toddlers but still entertaining.

Erma Does the Math is a sweet, little picture book!

Why do I like this book?
1. The illustrations are cartoon-y and adorable and totally give emotions to this book! Our little lead looks so happy in the first picture, you can feel it!
2. This book makes math fun! Seriously, that's rare and awesome.
3. It's all around fun and educational, which makes me a very happy reader.
4. Discussion questions at the baaaaack!

Ann Strawn has made such a wonderful book, I truly hope more readers find it. A book that teaches math and is colourful and wonderful? I love it!

Four out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

I loved this book!

The book tells the story (in brief) of Erma who was one of the mathematicians who helped get man to the moon.

It was well written and I liked the little bit of maths that was added too.

It is 4 stars from me for this one - highly recommended!

I enjoyed reading about Erma and her legacy in the space world. Its definitely time that the women of space are highlighted. I liked how there were math problems to keep kids engaged with the story. The discussion questions at the end were also great. I enjoyed the illustrations and the text colored by who was talking.

What a cute little book about Tameka who visits her elderly aunt where she learns maths and finds out a bit more about her aunt Erma, who was a mathematician that worked on many missions including the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions.

The book was written in a creative way to engage young minds, and it was great to see an African American woman who made such an important contribution to history, represented positively in children's literature.

Thanks to NetGalley for a review copy in exchange for an honest review.