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Description
A page-turning mystery brimming with lighthearted intrigue and essential middle-grade math skills, Math Mysteries: The Triplet Threat by author Aaron Starmer will have readers on the edge of their seats as they unravel the who-done it using math. Perfect for both mystery and math lovers, as well as kids who love puzzles, riddles, brainteasers, and adventure stories!
It's the first day of the fourth grade at Arthimos Elementary and things are already off to a strange start--poisonous cookies, a zipline disaster, a missing iPad, and what are those strange sounds coming from the school custodian's wheelbarrow? Luckily the Prime Detectives--Abby "the Abacus" Feldstein, Cameron "Cam" McGill, and Gabriel "Gabe" Kim--are on the case! Using arithmetic, geometry, and logic, the Prime Detectives are sure to figure out who did what, when, and why! A gripping new middle grade mystery series, each book contains multiple, interlinked mysteries that readers help solve using math. Includes answers showing step-by-step solutions.
Detective and mystery fiction Detectives Mathematics Readers (Publications) Middle school students School fiction
ALA/Booklist
Nicely integrated demonstrations of the solutions through both character dialogue and explicit arithmetic equations set this apart, and the occasional illustrations help bring to life the characters.
Kirkus
High density edutainment…with cookies.
Publishers Weekly
Numbers are the key to rooting out the truth in this low-stakes first installment of an arithmetic whodunit series by Starmer (A Million Views). Abby Feldstein, Cam McGill, and Gabe Kim call themselves the Prime Detectives, so named for their reputation as sleuths who use math to solve mysteries and for their friendship, which is as indivisible as prime numbers. The first day of fourth grade immediately tests the trio's mettle: the Penderton triplets, three brothers new to Arithmos Elementary, bustle into the classroom expecting to be early but are instead inexplicably 10 minutes tardy. In this first of several episodic numerical capers, the Prime Detectives crack the case, detailing via concise prose how they use mathematical logic to puzzle out those missing minutes. The team breaks subsequent mysteries down into digestible math problems, using conversions to explain a batch of inedible cookies and statistics to demonstrate how a gym class obstacle course went sideways. Cheerful, limited blue-palette illustrations by Kissi (the Wind Riders series) accompany each adventure, making for a fast-reading story that's light on mystery but rich in equations. Characters are depicted as having varying skin tones. Ages 8-11. Agent: Michael Bourret, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. (Aug.)
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Aaron Starmer was born in northern California and raised in the suburbs of Syracuse, New York. Before pursuing writing full-time, he worked in New York City for over ten years as an editor for a travel bookseller and as an operations director for an African safari company. His middle grade and young adult novels have been translated into multiple languages and have appeared on best of the year lists from Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal, New York Public Library, YALSA, Bank Street College of Education, Chicago Public Library, and School Library Journal. His novel Spontaneous was recently made into a film. He lives in Vermont with his wife and two daughters.
