“Yeah,” said David. “No wizard is gonna’ catch us!”
“We don’t care how evil or powerful you are!” added Serena.
“Especially some Evil Wizard of math,” added Justin.
“You can say that again,” said David.
“Especially some Evil Wizard of math,” added Justin.
“Let’s totally not start that again,” said Hannah.
I must say the students had never felt this together since they’d first been in trouble for painting the classroom and had been sent to Mr. Morris’ office.
While they were talking, Serena accidentally pressed one of the buttons that was attached to her chair and the students noticed that a microphone was sliding out of the control panel.
“I wonder what this microphone is for,” asked Serena.
“I bet it’s for talking to that wizard,” said David, who was usually right about electronic things…
So the students made up a poem for the wizard and said it into the microphone. It went a little like this:
We don’t like to add,
We don’t like to multiply,
We wanna’ go home,
We don’t think its fun to fly!
We all know our one’s,
Two’s and three’s times tables,
We’ve studied social studies,
And we’ve read some ancient fables…
We like to find big products,
We like to find out why,
We like to get some sums,
But we have to say good-bye,
‘Cause we hear that you are mean,
And mean times one is mean,
So you can just go home,
Where the sun is never seen.
We don’t want to go,
To Math Hades,
We think you’re quite insane,
We think that you’re just crazy…
“Besides, we’ve heard the food is terrible there!” they shouted.
Suddenly the elevator started shaking and trembling. The lights started blinking on and off and the students were thrown from their seats. They opened their eyes and what they saw once again made them scream at the top of their lungs…
There screams were so loud that they were heard all the way back in the classroom. That was about 4,567 – 1,299 miles away. How many miles away were the screams heard?
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