Mystery Math Squad: Ghost of Cuthbert Castle

By Ms Marie

A call on the hotline takes the Mystery Math Squad to a construction site. According to Paul Parker, their project is at a standstill because the area is haunted. Addie, Linus, Trixie and Devon have their hands full multiplying and dividing steps, window panes and wall carvings to solve riddles. The gang gets a real adventure for their history project; complete with an old structure, a ghost and a disappearing Trixie! Will the mystery math Squad's math skills help figure out what's going on in the middle of the woods?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ms Marie
• Release date: Oct 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370195480

Ms Marie

Ms. Marie runs an after-school program in the San Francisco Peninsula area. With the goal of building strong number and reading skills in her students, she keeps in mind that everyone is different. Where some learn by memorization, others learn by listening or by doing – among other ways. Reading stories is definitely one way of learning!Armed with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, a teaching license and a certification in TESOL, Ms. Marie hopes to create ways for students to understand math problems through an enjoyable reading experience.

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MYSTERY MATH SQUAD

Ghost of Cuthbert Castle

By: Ms. Marie

Copyright 2016 Ms. Marie

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 – History Homework

Chapter 2 – Alone in the Forest

Chapter 3 – The Hidden Doorway

Chapter 4 – Cuthbert Castle

Chapter 5 – The Library

Chapter 6 – The Stepping Stones

Chapter 7 – Pricked and Squished… Almost!

Chapter 8 - Trapped

About the Author

CHAPTER 1 – HISTORY HOMEWORK

My legs were trembling. My palms were sweaty. The Mystery Math Squad had never faced anything quite so frightening or terrifying.

No, we weren’t on some top secret assignment… we had History homework.

Now, most kids in our class get in a tizz when they’re faced with mathematics challenges. But not us. You could fire a hundred math questions at us and we’d answer them with our eyes closed. But History homework was a whole other thing. We were math geniuses, not historians!

The other problem was that all the other kids in class had their weekends to do their assignments. But not us four. We were different. We had responsibilities. As soon as our weekend started, Trixie, Linus, Devon and I slipped into our secret identities. We became the Mystery Math Squad. And we had far more important things to do than homework!

Trixie was the only one of us who was as good at every subject as we were at math, but even she was daunted by the amount of History homework we had to do. Our teacher had set us a project to research castles and create a scrapbook. We didn’t even know where to begin.

We sat in our tree house, our MMS-HQ, in my back garden. On the floor of our headquarters, the empty scrap book lay open in the middle. Surrounding it was a pile of library books, printed pages from the internet, and glossy pictures cut out from magazines. But the whole thing was a huge disorganized pile.

Right, Trixie said turning to me. Addie, you start by making a collage for the front cover. Use these pictures. She handed me a pile of photos and some glue. Find the best way to make them fit.

I counted the pictures. There were 10. Trying to layout a few pictures, I worked out that I could fit 2 across and 3 down. A quick multiplication - 2 times 3 - told me that only 6 pictures would fit on the front. I got to work selecting the best 6.

Now, Devon, Trixie said, looking up to where Devon and