It's Alive!

The authors, junior high students and best friends David and Asa, along with best-selling author Marya Washington Tyler, took the kind of gooey, slimy, disgusting science facts that students love and turned them into hilarious math problems. Problems in It''s Alive! include:

• When''s the last time you had your students calculate their chances of being eaten by a crocodile?
• The percent of seats at Y...