Harry used to be a math teacher, but now he is a legend, and Connie is a fifth grade student who sent her math teacher to the math universe.
One day Harry asked everyone to give their notebooks for checking. When Connie gave her notebook, on the last page there was a portal to a math world. When he opened the last page, faster than the blink of an eye, he got sucked in the portal.
When Harry landed, he screamed “Where am I.” He saw everything around him was made of numbers and shapes. The equations were floating in the air. The trees looked like multiplication signs, and the clouds were shaped like brackets.
Just as he was trying to make sense of it all, a wise old man appeared. He told Harry, “If you want to escape this world, you have to collect all three brackets and defeat the math monster.” “That’s impossible,” said Harry.
The old wise man was calm, kind, and mysterious. Made of chalk dust and numbers, he guides Harry through the math world with riddles, tools, and clever challenges to build courage.
At the end he gave Harry a shield and says, “This will help you on your journey.”
Harry starts his journey to beat the math monster.
To get the small bracket he had to survive an obstacle course. He had to cross a balance beam of numbers where he had to walk carefully while solving small equations. Every correct answer made the beam steady and wrong made it wobble.
For the curly bracket he had to jump the tiles. Each tile had a math problem on it. Only the correct answers were safe to jump. The wrong ones would sink and you would drown in the quicksand. At the end was the small bracket glowing on a golden stand.
For the square bracket, Harry had to deflect the attacks of the Math Monster and collect the bracket. But the battle wasn’t going in his favor.
From the other side of the portal, Connie watched in fear, her heart pounding, Harry was struggling, and it looked like he wouldn’t make it. Suddenly, his shield cracked and snapped into two. He stumbled back, certain it was the end.
Just in time, Connie sprang into action. She had realized something that the Math Monster was actually made of a massive fifty-digit number. The only way to defeat it was to divide it by a ten-digit number.
With quick thinking and sharp math skills, Connie did exactly that. The monster dissolved into sparks of numbers, and the final bracket was released. The portal to Earth opened wide, and Harry was pulled back safely at last.
The End