Charlotte Morgan and the Great Big Math Problem--Chapter 23 Two Days to go by mctiller

writing · @mctiller · Feb 7 '18

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Charlotte Morgan and the Great Big Math Problem--Chapter 23 Two Days to go

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<p>&nbsp;This is my next book.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>It is currently being copy edited, (so there will be the occasional typo in this version) and I am having a few illustrations done.</p>
<p>I am including the tag <a href="https://steemit.com/trending/steemiteducation">#steemiteducation</a> because I wrote this thinking like a teacher. &nbsp;The characters use math and describe their math thinking as they work through problems. &nbsp;I am a former 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade teacher, so I used my experience and background from those years as I wrote this.</p>
<p><strong>Update: The book is now available for preorder on Amazon. &nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0796LGNGY"><strong>Click here to get it on Kindle.</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-1-friday">Click here for chapter 1,</a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-2-sally-hemingway-and-the-number-investigators"> Chapter 2, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-3-the-investigators-group">Chapter 3, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-4-the-treehouse">Chapter 4, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-number-investigators-chapter-5-dinner">Chapter 5, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-6-missing-items">Chapter 6, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-7-gavin-eggleston">Chapter 7, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-8-the-bully-and-the-book-is-now-available-for-preorder-on-amazon">Chapter 8, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-9-the-investigation">Chapter 9, Chapter 10, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-11-maybe-we-can-ask-calvin">Chapter 11</a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-9-the-investigation">, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-12-meeting-in-the-treehouse">Chapter 12,</a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-9-the-investigation"> </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-13-partners-and-it-s-my-2-000-post-here-on-steemit-whoo-hoo">Chapter 13,</a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-9-the-investigation"> </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-14-change-my-partner">Chapter 14</a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-9-the-investigation">, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-15-first-encounter">Chapter 15</a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-9-the-investigation">, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-16-the-monkey-bars">Chapter 16</a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-9-the-investigation">, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-17-we-have-something-to-tell-you">Chapter 17, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-18-good-job-gavin">Chapter 18, Chapter 19, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-20-the-emergency-meeting">Chapter 20, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-21-how-many-buses-does-it-take">Chapter 21, </a><a href="https://steemit.com/writing/@mctiller/charlotte-morgan-and-the-great-big-math-problem-chapter-22-the-class-math-bee">Chapter 22</a></p>
<p><em>Summary: Time for the Math Bee is getting close.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Chapter 23 &nbsp;Two Days to go</strong></em></p>
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<p>I banged on the floor of the tree house with my gavel. &nbsp;“Here Ye! &nbsp;Here Ye! &nbsp;This meeting of the Number Investigators is now called to order!” &nbsp;The four of us sat on &nbsp;the floor surrounding several large pieces of poster paper and several different color markers.</p>
<p>“Here Ye? &nbsp;Here Ye?” asked Marcus.</p>
<p>“We discussed town criers today in Social Studies, they used to shout ‘Here ye! Here ye!’ to spread news,” explained Sally.</p>
<p>“Yes, that is true. &nbsp;And I like it,” I replied. &nbsp;“But we have less than 48 hours until the math bee.”</p>
<p>“Actually we have less than 40 hours,” said Marcus, and then he looked at his watch, “It is 6:30 now, so we have…”</p>
<p>“39 hours,” the rest of us shouted.</p>
<p>“Thank you Mr. Sunshine,” Sally said making a face at him.</p>
<p>I took a deep breath, “okay, less than 40, the point is it is now crunch time. &nbsp;I pulled off some word problems off the Internet that we can work through. &nbsp;It was my dad that got us the extra poster paper from school for use to work big on.” &nbsp;Working big was when we could draw big solutions to our problems and we liked using big paper.</p>
<p>I put a word problem down in the middle us. &nbsp;“The first problem I pulled up was one about shopping.”</p>
<p>“Cool,” replied Sally. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Marcus picked the paper and read the problem aloud, “Devon went to the electronics store with $50. &nbsp;He wanted to get two video games that cost $19.95 each.”</p>
<p>“They must be on sale,” interjected Aaron.</p>
<p>Marcus continued reading the problem, “He also wants a new controller for $29.95. &nbsp;Can he purchase these items with the money he has? &nbsp;If he can, how much change does he get back? &nbsp;If he can’t but them with money he has, how much more does he need?” &nbsp;Marcus put the problem in the middle.</p>
<p>“I think we all know that he will clearly need more money,” said Aaron. &nbsp;“$19.95 might as well be $20. &nbsp;And $29.95 might as well be $30, so one controller and one game is right at $50, but he also wants the second game, so he’ll need about $20.”</p>
<p>“But we need the exact amount,” said Sally. &nbsp;“There’s nothing in that question about rounding, or being in the ball park. We would need it down to the final penny.”</p>
<p>Marcus grabbed a marker and began writing down the numbers on the large poster paper: $19.95, $19.95, $29.95.</p>
<p>“$19.95 plus $19.95 gets us $39.90. &nbsp;Add that number to $29.95 and we get $69.85,” said Marcus as he finished working his numbers.</p>
<p>“So then we need to find out how much more does Devon need?” I said.</p>
<p>“We have to subtract $50 from $69.85,” replied Sally and she took the marker from Marcus. &nbsp;She quickly worked the problem on the paper, “It gives us $19.85. &nbsp;So the answer would be, No, her does not have enough to get the stuff, and he needs $19.85 more in order to do them.”</p>
<p>“I wonder why these problems never ask for sales tax?” Aaron asked.</p>
<p>“I don’t know. &nbsp;Let’s just be thankful they don’t,” I replied.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Okay, we finished one, let’s work on another,” said Aaron.</p>
<p>We worked on two more word problems that night. &nbsp;I know that most people would consider it weird to work on word problems for fun, but we also wanted to do well in the math bee. &nbsp;Sally and I would be representing Mrs. King’s class, Marcus and Aaron would representing Mrs. Seal’s class. &nbsp;We had earned our reputation as Number Investigators and we wanted to keep our reputation.</p>
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