Charlotte Morgan and the Great Big Math Problem--Chapter 11--Maybe we can ask Calvin

 This is my next book.  

It is currently being copy edited, (so there will be the occasional typo in this version) and I am having a few illustrations done.

I am including the tag #steemiteducation because I wrote this thinking like a teacher.  The characters use math and describe their math thinking as they work through problems.  I am a former 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade teacher, so I used my experience and background from those years as I wrote this.

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Chapter 11 Maybe We Can Ask Calvin

Summary:  During lunch the group formulates a plan to find who has their stuff.

Lunch time was from 12:02 pm to 12:27 pm, a total of twenty-five minutes, or 1,500 seconds. 

I sat across from Sally.

“What did you find out?” Sally asked as she bit off the corner of her pepperoni pizza.  Aaron and Marcus sat down next to us with their lunches.

I leaned across the lunch table, “He said that he and his cousins were causing trouble this weekend.”  I took a gulp of chocolate milk, “I also think I made him mad at me.”

Sally made a face, she looked over her shoulder at Gavin, who was sitting on the opposite end of the table,  “Why would you make him made at you?”

“What did you do?” Aaron spoke in hushed tone as he leaned in his with turkey sandwich.

I explained, “He was explaining what he did over the weekend.  Luckily Mrs. King asked him, I was afraid he wasn’t going to say anything., and he made a joke about causing problems in the neighborhood—in the neighborhood! The class laughed.  Then I asked him what sort of trouble did you cause?”

“It’s a miracle that you’re still alive!” Aaron gasped.  “What were you thinking?”

“Shh!!” I hushed Aaron, Gavin was sitting at the other end of the table, but I didn’t want him to hear us.  “But listen!, he got mad at me and shouted ‘None of your business’, he was very defensive.  Before he was very quiet about what did over the weekend.  It wasn’t until Mrs. King asked him the questions, and then Calvin reminded him that he did do something with his cousins.”

Marcus leaned in, “Maybe Calvin knows what he did.  Maybe we can get Calvin to find out what he did.”

“How would we do that?” asked Aaron in a quiet voice.

“We can invite him to come and play Magnix with us.  I know he likes to do that,” said Marcus.

“But Gavin makes fun of us for that,” Sally replied.

Marcus turned glanced at Calvin and spoke in his low whisper voice, “But Calvin never does!  He and Gavin sometimes are friends and sometimes they’re not.  And he played with it before when Mrs. King let us bring things to school for our Winter Break party.”

I got his point, “I remember that!  He brought his own game, but he didn’t play with it.  He spent the whole time with your Magnix set.  So, if we invite him to come play with the Magnix set with us he could tell us what he knows.”  I said, making sure that Calvin or Gavin couldn’t hear us.

“I’ll ask him at recess if he wants to come over to your house and play with the Magnix set,” said Marcus.

Mrs. King gave the signal to line up, and with that our twenty-five minutes—1,500 seconds was up.

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