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FROM: Jane Jorgenson <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/7/05, 4:43 PM

Hoping someone here will recognize this kids book.

Adult patron read it when she was a kid (so probably
came out in the 70's). The book is a chapter book and
the kids in the book all have difficulty with math.
They get/have/find a computer (much different kind
then what we'd have today <g>) that they hope will do
their math work for them. Their teacher is or becomes
aware that they have the computer but lets them think
she doesn't know.

The moral is that by the time they enter all the
algorithms and formulae into the machine they realize
they've learned math.

Sound familiar? The patron would like her daughter to
read the book, if we can find it.

Thanks,

Jane Jorgenson
Alicia Ashman Branch - MPL
Madison, WI


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FROM: "Carol Burton" <[removed]@oplin.org>
REC'D: 2/7/05, 5:34 PM

Sounds similar to Danny Dunn & the Homework Machine, by Jay Williams, except
that I read it in the '60s, & I don't believe the computer was strictly for
math. When his parents & teacher realized he had to know the material in
order to enter it into the computer, they let him do it, and gave him extra
assignments as well. He finally caught on that he was doing more work rather
than less!

Carol Burton, Adult Services
Logan County District Library
Bellefontaine OH 43311-2288

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Subject: kids book - use computer to learn math

Hoping someone here will recognize this kids book.

Adult patron read it when she was a kid (so probably came out in the 70's).
The book is a chapter book and the kids in the book all have difficulty with
math.
They get/have/find a computer (much different kind then what we'd have today
<g>) that they hope will do their math work for them. Their teacher is or
becomes aware that they have the computer but lets them think she doesn't
know.

The moral is that by the time they enter all the algorithms and formulae
into the machine they realize they've learned math.

Sound familiar? The patron would like her daughter to read the book, if we
can find it.

Thanks,

Jane Jorgenson
Alicia Ashman Branch - MPL
Madison, WI


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