By Marya Washington Tyler
I am an author of math books, which to some may sound like a dry job, but that’s exactly why I do it. It’s my goal to show kids that math does not need to be sterile, colorless, and without feeling. I’ve written seven books so far, each of them focused on bringing the subject of math to life in funny and interesting ways.
It all began when I was teaching advanced grade 4–6 students in Marshfield, WI, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics advised that we should be teaching real-world math. Okay.
Marya Washington Tyler, MEd, thoroughly enjoyed teaching math to elementary and middle-school students in Wisconsin, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska, and continues to bring math to life for students around the world. She and her husband, Kip, grow much of their own food on a little patch of land near Lake Superior.
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