How Do You Measure a Slice of Pizza?: A Book about Geometry

This book was an August 2022 Hoopla Bonus Borrows recommendation.

First of all, I wanted to love this. A book using pizza to demonstrate how to do geometry? FINALLY! Something I could understand.

Unfortunately, after reading this I still barely understand geometry. Instead, I'm hungry for pizza.

So what went wrong? Simply put, this book is chaotic. There are so many things to look at that it is hard to focus and concentrate on what is actually being displayed. My eye was jumping all over the place while trying to absorb the cute illustrations, the helpful hints and how to actually do geometry. At the end of the day there was just too much and I finished it feeling helpless, lost and overwhelmed.


Ways this book could have been improved:
- Have a universal background for the text explaining how to do geometry. This way the brain can say “Ok everything in the blue box on each page is what will help me understand the subject matter.”
- Add more spacing around the text and the imagery. It is so clumped together that it is chaotic. Many times I would try to read a sentence but a drawing was so close that my eye would start to follow the drawing. Thus I'd never finish the sentence I was reading.