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Part 1: Pirates and Peril

Do you like adventures?

If so, you’re just like Theo, Seb, and Reja! Join them on an amazing journey to help a time-travelling dog (or whatever he is!) return to his home planet. You’ll get the chance to outwit fearsome pirates, rescue a cat from prehistoric dinosaurs, and help build The Great Pyramid of Giza by solving tricky puzzles along the way.

In this book, you’ll become an active part of the story! Can you use your maths and problem-solving skills to help the adventurers on their quest? Can you use logical thinking to recover missing pieces of the rocket to help fire Kubit home? Why not find out?

These books all focus on the areas of maths that will be really important to your child throughout their lives, in a fun and engaging way that is all brought together with an exciting adventure!

I have been working on a very special book aimed at 8-13 year olds, which is all about an exciting adventure that a group of children set out on. There are many problems that the adventurers come across and in this book you get to help the reader gets to help the characters by solving these themselves.

All the puzzles involved tie into the key areas of mathematics that I have been focusing on with Help Your Kids: Maths and the format of the book will encourage children to want to solve as many of them as they can. The major tasks fit in with the story, but there are also lots of puzzles hidden within the illustrations with the real challenge being to find and solve them all!

The fast paced, funny story along with the problem solving elements will hopefully have your children coming back to this book over and over, improving there confidence key mathematical topics without them even realising.

Sample from the book...

Below is the text and image from the first page of the book. The idea is that the reader goes through the story solving any of the problems that the characters come across and also try and find all the secret puzzles hidden in the detailed illustrations. Have a look at the first page here and see if you can find and solve all 4 hidden puzzles in the illustration.

Good luck!

A Crash in the Loft

Theo, Seb, and Reja were all sitting in the front room. They were slouched on the sofas whilst the TV played in the background. They were bored. Extremely bored. So bored that being bored was all they could talk about.

Theo, who was lazing away in his usual spot in the corner, dropped down his magazine and let out the most tremendous yawn. “Oh, I am sooo bored,” sighed Theo. “There is absolutely nothing to do!”

“Me too,” groaned Seb, as he stared passively at the television screen. “There is never anything to do! I wish we could all just be whizzed off on a big adventure or something.”

“That’s stupid,” said Reja, rolling her eyes as she always did when any of her younger friends said something she thought was completely unrealistic. “You don’t just get whizzed off on adventures!”

“Why not?” challenged Seb, as he stood up spreading his arms out wide. “Well, how exactly do you get on an adventure then?” He stared inquisitively at his older friend, as he rolled his neck and continued to stretch.

“You don’t!” replied Reja sternly. “Adventures don’t happen to kids like us. We will just have to sit here and be bored forever.”

Seb muttered in dissatisfaction under his breath. He knew Reja was always right. He fell backwards towards the sofa, conceding defeat. As he crashed against the cushions, a loud rumbling sound echoed throughout the room. The three children looked at each other in alarm.

“Ah Seb! That’s disgusting!” cried Reja and Theo together.

“It wasn’t me,” pleaded Seb. “Honest!” They laughed in unison.

“That noise though…it sounded like it came from upstairs,” said Theo cautiously. “I think it came from the loft!”

Seb jumped up, knocking the entire contents of the coffee table everywhere, and whizzed out of the room screaming, “Adventure! Here we come!”

Reja and Theo looked at each other for a moment in disbelief before Reja announced, “Best get ready for action then!” She smoothly removed the blue bow from her hair and placed it on her wrist. She then tied her hair back using a bobble she took from her pocket and stood up.

There came a cry from upstairs, “Guys! Hurry up! I can’t reach the ladder!”

Reja and Theo looked at each other with puzzled frowns. With that, they sprinted out of the room and clambered furiously up the stairs.