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TRACY BONHAM -- Blink and you will Languages professor Vladimir Tumanov miss him hopes his fantasy novel will turn children Thursday Ticket on to math. LEVELLERS -- Prof's children's book adds up Trying to level out It doesn't add up. How does a professor of modern languages used to writing for by Sandra Coulson JAMES BLUNT -- academics suddenly turn to writing fantasy The London Free Press He's a lover fiction that is winning over children to mathematics? ROCK SCHOOL SOUNDTRACK Vladimir Tumanov solved that puzzle with (various artists) -- his book Jayden's Rescue (Scholastic, $5.99). Teach us In the process, the University of Western Ontario professor has given his young readers WEEVIL -- more puzzles to solve. Effective Jayden's Rescue is structured so that the 10- MOTION CITY year-old heroes, Alex, Vanessa and Sam, must RESCUE JOB: Vladimir SOUNDTRACK -- answer a series of mathematical riddles to Tumanov, a professor at Memorize this move along the plot of a magic book they have the University of Western found. Ontario, wrote Jayden's THE TREWS -- Rescue to help children learn math. He named Trews need more Each solution helps Jayden, the scholarly young queen of Idyllia, get one step closer to escaping characters after his time daughter, Vanessa, and from Rechner, the evil king of neighbouring son, Alex. — Geoff Robins file:///Users/vladimir/Documents/Tumanov%20Files/Vlad's%20Document…d%20Misc/London%20Free%20Press/London-Free-Press-Review.webarchive Page 1 of 4 London Free Press: Books, CDs and Media 10-10-28 9:23 AM

son, Alex. — Geoff Robins Lugubria. RIDLEY BENT -- Great songs, ok "Until this book, I had written only academic singer books and articles," Tumanov says. " But being a parent changes you. You THE NEW "But being a parent changes you. You start start responding to PORNOGRAPHERS responding to an entirely different world." an entirely different world." Prof. -- Like a fresh His motivation was to help his nine-year-old Vladimir Tumanov breeze son Alex.

STAINED -- Not "I saw Alex was not particularly inspired about again math, but he liked fantasy fiction, particularly Harry Potter. DAY AT THE FAIR "I thought, 'What if I piggybacked math on top -- Fair punk of fantasy fiction so that fantasy fiction becomes a vehicle for turning math into an SLEEPER SET adventure?'" SAIL -- Other emo It's not co-incidental his main character is TOMMY LEE -- named Alex. As well, Tumanov's five-year-old Tommy grows daughter, Vanessa, gives her name to another major character, who is a few years older than JOSHUA REDMAN she is. ELASTIC BAND -- The real Alex says it's fun to have a character Cooool! named after himself.

Music "I get to read about myself. You think you're the person, so you think you're having that Walpole has 'no adventure in your head." regrets' about Idol He adds he's much more interested in math since reading dad's book. LATE LAST NIGHT: Walpole Vanessa shyly agrees she likes having a express hits sudden character of her own, too. stop But her father says when she first saw Aaron hits Idol high illustrator David Bordeleau's drawing of note Rechner, she ran and hid under her bed. Rechner, by the way, is German for calculator. Walpole hits Idol's top three But Tumanov won't go so far as to say there's anything evil about calculators. Walpole survives another Idol cut Tumanov took no formal training to adjust to the style of children's literature. But he was avid about reading aloud to Alex. Walpole stays, Fleury departs, seven "I didn't realize this was my education because remain I was learning intuitively about children's books by reading a lot of them and discussing them London singer with him," Tumanov says. Sumeet finds her place in N.Y. Tumanov found a welcoming publisher in Scholastic.

Walpole hangs in for "This is topical today," he says. next Idol round "There is a math crisis." Kids don't find the Canadian Idol local subject interesting and fewer are enrolling in entry still in race upper-level courses.

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Using his son's textbook, Tumanov tracked the Idol entry awaits math problems children in Grades 4 to 6 study tonight's verdict -- patterns, exponents, pre-algebra.

Book Reviews The transition to children's writing worked so well that Tumanov has been asked by Western NEIL to teach a course on international children's BISSOONDATH -- literature. The Unyielding Clamour of the Tumanov, who came to Canada from the Soviet Union when he was 12, teaches Russian, Night German and French.

DAVID STOUCK -- Teachers find Jayden's Rescue an imaginative As for Sinclair Ross tool.

J.P. WEARING -- Susana Soler read aloud a chapter a day last Bernard Shaw and spring to her Grade 5 class at John P. Robarts Nancy Astor public school. She then set them to work solving the riddle.

WILLIAM "It was the end of the year and I thought it was JOHNSON -- perfect to fill in the time and get them to think Stephen Harper and about math without realizing they were doing the Future of Canada math," she says.

JAMES They thought the riddles, written in the form of BARTLEMAN -- poems, were clever and found the characters Rollercoaster: My realistic. Hectic Years as Jean Each puzzle builds on knowledge learned Chretien's earlier. Students often came up with different Diplomatic Advisor ways of solving questions than the ones Tumanov used in the book. CARL BERNSTEIN -- All The Soler says the book was a good summary of President's Men lessons the class learned during the year. She says a Grade 6 teacher could use it to start the IRENE GAMMEL - year. - The Intimate Life Tumanov wants to continue the series with of L.M. Montgomery Alex, Vanessa and Sam.

KELLEY He has sent a manuscript for a geography book ARMSTRONG -- to his publisher and would like to do a history Haunted book next.

CHARLOTTE GILL I am the father of nine sons, -- Ladykiller all one-eyed monster boys. NELOFER PAZIRZA -- A Bed I keep an eye on all my lads, of Red Flowers as they play with their toys.

Book Features A three-eyed monster once dropped in

Storytellers set to and brought his sons along. spin yarns in St. Three bulging eyes were on each guest; Marys oh, what a blinking throng! For kids, the plot thickens Together all the monsters had exactly forty eyes. Life & Luck file:///Users/vladimir/Documents/Tumanov%20Files/Vlad's%20Document…d%20Misc/London%20Free%20Press/London-Free-Press-Review.webarchive Page 3 of 4 London Free Press: Books, CDs and Media 10-10-28 9:23 AM Life & Luck How many three-eyed kids were there? Project seeks memories of Fox The numbers tell no lies. From Jayden's Rescue Young readers make a fast start

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