How long does it take to read Math Curse?
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1995. 32 pages, about 8,800 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Mathematics, Schools, Math anxiety, Study and teaching
