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Travel along with Olin on his hero's adventure as he recovers the missing crystals before Lady Alora's return to the Jeweled Room by using his trusty . . . . math skills! Combining story + math, the Jeweled Room is the ultimate story problem - the story IS the problem. Great for practicing comprehensive skills with multiple-step math problems, encouraging reluctant readers, independent assignments for summer or winter breaks to help with skills retention or warm up, increasing vocabulary and encouraging reluctant readers (and mathers).

Olin's adventures begin when he is fooled by a new friend, solves an impossible problem, accepts an important mission, and knocks out two burly thugs with...a root vegetable! As Olin tries to recover the stolen crystals, he resolves each crisis by using his trusty . . . math skills! Olin is on his way to the castle (Use the map to determine distance). The barn is on fire! (How long until the fire reaches him?) There are five tunnels in the cave (What's the probability that he will pick the correct tunnel?). The Jeweled Room is an interdisciplinary book that combines an entertaining story in the traditional "hero's adventure" style with math problems throughout to help students retain b ...