Comic Books That Teach Mathematics

Illustrations by WKU undergraduate student Anne Erskine and the author. During the 2008–2009 academic year, the author embarked on an extremely non-standard curriculum path: devel-oping comic books with embedded mathematics appropriate for 3rd through 6th grade students. With the help of an education professor to measure impact, an elementary-school principal, and talented undergraduate illustrators, this project came to fruition and the comics were implemented in elementary classrooms at Cumberland Trace Elemen-tary in the Warren County School System in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This manuscript gives the history of this idea, the difficulties of developing the content of the comics and getting them illustrated, and the implementation plan in the school. 1