* Whydoes elf + elf = fool?
* How many meals will Miss Mush, the lunch teacher, have to cook for the food to taste as bad as it smells?

These Sideways Arithmatic problems may look puzzling at first, but you can use real math to solve them, and the answers are perfectly logical. There are lots of clues and hints; plus, all the answers are in the back of the book. Best of all, all the kids you read about in Sideways Stories from Wayside School are here to help you!

Try solving these, and more than fifty other math brainteasers, along with the kids from Mrs. Jewls's class. You'll learn a lot about math- but you'll be laughing too hard to notice.