I got a lovely surprise this past summer—a large envelope full of thank you cards from kids! My friend Louise gave a copy of the print version of Times Tables Make Sense to a teacher at the school where she volunteers. The kids enjoyed reading it with their teacher, and wrote to tell me what they thought.

It seems they liked exactly the things I had hoped they would like! They liked the jokes, they liked the dog, and they liked the “cool” math strategies. Some of them pointed out that the jokes were especially good because they were all about math. I was happy to see that because I spent a lot of time finding jokes that matched the math topics Spot was talking about. Here’s one of my favourites: