The Great Number Rumble is a fictional story about math. When the Director of Education in some non-specific town where a kid named Jeremy lives (the whole book is told from Jeremy's perspective) removes Math from the School Curriculum, the kids held a “yay-saying marathon”. Even the teachers happily ditched their math textbooks, expecting not to see them ever again. But Jeremy's friend Sam, a self-proclaimed mathnic, hated the math ban that the director of education, who's name, by the way is Mr. Lake, set up, so he sets out to prove to Mr. Lake that Math is fun, and also proves that math is everywhere in the doing of it. He covers all of the math in sports, art, music, nature, and more. Sam finally convinces Mr. Lake that math is fun, and then he lifts the ban. Cool, huh? My favorite thing about this book was how many tricks Sam had up his sleeve. He seemed to have a way to get around everything Mr. Lake threw at him. Plus, I thought that math was integrated into almost everything, but I didn't know how.
There's also some history of famous mathematicians in this book. My favorite one was probably Pythagoras and the order of Pythagoras. They tried to prove a mathematical universe, and got extremely close, but disaster struck when one of them discovered the square root of two, which is impossible to write in whole numbers (decimals weren't part of math then).
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