Title of Book:
Author:
Publisher/Year:
ISBN - 13:
Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin
Pam Calvert
Charlesbridge Publishing/2006
978-1-57091-890-2
Grade Levels for Recommended Use: 3rd & 4th
TEKS:
3.4 Number, operation, and quantitative reasoning. The student recognizes and solves
problems in multiplication and division situations. The student is expected to: (B) solve
and record multiplication problems (up to two digits times one digit);
3.15 Underlying processes and mathematical tools. The student communicates about
Grade 3 mathematics using informal language. The student is expected to: (B) relate
informal language to mathematical language and symbols.
4.4 Number, operation, and quantitative reasoning. The student multiplies and divides to
solve meaningful problems involving whole numbers. The student is expected to: (D) use
multiplication to solve problems (no more than two digits times two digits without
technology)
4.15 Underlying processes and mathematical tools. The student communicates about
Grade 4 mathematics using informal language. The student is expected to: (B) relate
informal language to mathematical language and symbols
Brief Summary:
Multiplying Menace is a continuation of the original Rumpelstiltskin story.
Rumpelstiltskin comes back 10 years later to collect on his deal with the Queen. He
causes chaos in the courtyard so the Queen’s son Peter will go with him. Once Peter
agrees to go with him bad things are supposed to stop happening. Peter figures out
Rumpelstiltskin’s walking stick has magic power when used with the correct words. Peter
gets control of the stick. He makes the bad things disappear with math problems using
fractions and increasing good things by multiplying.
Materials needed:
 Multiplying Menace Book
 Smartboard Responders
 Whiteboard or Smartboard
 Expo Marker
 Computer
 Paper and Pencil if you don’t have the use of Smartboard Responders
Suggested Activity:
1. Preread the book to find the math problems to be used with the Smartboard
Responders.
2. Type the problems into Smartboard under responder tab.
3. Before introducing the book make sure each student has a responder and has
gotten to the required activity.
4. Introduce Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin. Talk with
students about the first story Rumpelstiltskin that came out many years ago.
5. Let the students know their task is to listen to the story for any math problems in
the text they hear (focusing on multiplication problems).
6. Start reading the book, stopping when a student raises his or her hand to let them
tell you the math problem they heard and you write it down on the whiteboard.
7. Each student is to type in their answer to the problem on their responders.
8. You continue this process until you finish the book.
9. When the book is finished the students press finish on their responders and turn
them off.
10. Their grade from the responders will be on your computer.
Adapted by: Valerie Dykes (2011)