It's Alive!

Marya Washington Tyler, M.Ed., enjoyed teaching middle school students in Wisconsin, Idaho, Washington State and Alaska for 18 wonderful years. She continues to serve teachers by writing math books such as Real Life Math Mysteries, It’s Alive!, It’s Alive (and Kicking!) and On the Job Math Mysteries, all of which have been best sellers in the field of gifted education. David Washington, now Partner Group Manager at Microsoft, with his best friend Asa, helped conceptualize the idea for the first edition and develop the problems while still in middle school. Asa Kleiman, now a freelance illustrator, was the genius behind most of the humor you’ll find in It’s Alive! The Funniest Math Book Ever!

1. Please don’t. 2. Slosh 3. What’s all that racket! 4. Ice pops 5. I’ll be with you in a jiffy. 6. Doggie menu 7. It wasn’t me! 8. Crayfish smoothie 9. Popcorn gone bad 10. Crumbly 11. Shrimp, huh? 12. PFFFFT 13. Dandelion doughnuts 14. I’m coming as a beetle 15. Fly tracks 16. Close the door! 17. Stop staring! 18. Bring in the SWAT team 19. Care to go for a swim? 20. Star pupil 21. Cheese! 22. Lawn ornaments 23. It’s normal 24. But it was good dirt 25. Stop the car! 26. Let me in! 27. Drowning in droplets 28. Eliminate waste 29. Pooky 30. Bats in the tent 31. Flapflapflapflap 32. Thank you, garbage people 33. Did you remember to flush? 34. Slimy 35. Tern, tern, tern 36. Zit city 37. Look closely 38. Worm digging 39. Panda poop 40. Ants Rule 41. Hot dog 42. Snarly 43. Supersweeper 44. I don’t get it 45. Where did my mailbox go? 46. Skin scales 25 cents a pound 47. Smile! 48. I thought I smelled 49. Coffee anyone? 50. A very hairy ordeal 51. Locker room 52. Nematode sea worms 53. Adventure awaits 54. Classical Kazoo Orchestra 55. Mirror, mirror 56. After School Science 57. Human vs. pineapple 58. You’re next young man 59. How many didn’t bite? 60. Great grandma’s knitting 61. Whole wheat tofu surprise 62. Fungus among us 63. Fuzzy apple logic 64. Let us see your hair, David 65. Shhhhh 66. N.L.R.M.I.T. 67. Sludge 68. No, we’re not buying a TV 69. Camp Torture 70. Heinz and Gunter 71. Gum on the seats 72. Chicken noodle sloop 73. Candy jar 74. People shed too 75. Lumps 76. Taj Mahal 77. Longest toe 78. An acre of pizza, please 79. Pair of socks 80. School janitor 81. Overflow 82. Cans of Spam™ 83. Old, fuzzy grapes 84. Frog eggs 85. Eyelash mites 86. Cow gas 87. Lucky Charms™ 88. Cereal boxes 89. Back yard fertilizer 90. Taste buds 91. Grocery store bulletin board 92. Leeches 93. Royal Canadian Bagpipers 94. Do you smell something? 95. Tick eating habits 96. What to do with $3,500? 97. ASA 98. Glub 99. Mucus moves 100. Cellmates 101. Asa’s airplanes 102. Up, up, and away! 103. Floss ’em 104. Saliva mouth 105. What’s in my water bottle? 106. Breathe in 107. Arteries 108. Live with Asa! 109. A rat can fall 110. Censorship! 111. Smork 112. Beetle in the soup 113. Good to know 114. Sneeze 115. Giant squid eyeball 116. My birthday is July 31st 117. Belly Button Biodiversity 118. Heavy thinker 119. In the Aftermath Restaurant 120. Care to Join Us?