20 MATH STORIES, K-8
in English, French & Spanish
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NUMBER
1. Something odd – $5
Piggy discovers odd numbers hiding in squares. Where do even numbers hide?
Content: odd & even numbers; patterning — 34 pages
2. Who’s the Big Bad Wolf? – $5
Who is scaring children away from math. Is it you?
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Hoodie loves math but overhears Mom say she hates it. When Wolf offers a math surprise Hoodie wonders: Will Mom approve?
Content: math phobia; odd & even numbers; patterning — 42 pages
3. To Infinity & Beyond – $5
You can hold infinity in your hand!
Rapunzel is waiting in her tower for a prince to save her. But why does she not escape when the door is unlocked?
Content: area representations of unit fractions; patterning; infinity — 31 pages
4. Add it Up! – $5
The boy who cried “Wolf!” meets Wolf in sheep’s clothing and learns neat ways of adding numbers in his head.
Content: mental addition methods — 39 pages
5. Smart Multiplication – $5
Fox gets the grapes using smart multiplication and a little help from Crow.
Content: multiplication shortcuts; patterning — 42 pages
6. Smart Division – $5
Which division method is the fairest of all?
When the Queen’s mirror can’t decide whether her division method is the fairest of all, the Queen hosts a Division Festival.
Content: division methods; patterning — 41 pages
PATTERN / ALGEBRA
7. Colourful Patterns – $5
Who is scaring children away from math. Is it you?
Hoodie loves math but overhears Mom say she hates it. When Wolf offers a math surprise Hoodie wonders: Will Mom approve?
Content: math phobia; odd & even numbers; patterning. 41 pages
8. Making 10, Stage 1 – $5
Random choices & staircase patterns!
Hoodie discovers patterns when making sums of 10. But something in Grandma’s house doesn’t add up!
Content: addition fact families; visual/concrete pattern representations — 33 pages
9. Making 10, Stage 2 – $5
Random points line up?
Hoodie discovers graphical patterns when making sums of 10. But something in Grandma’s house doesn’t add up!
Content: missing number sentences; plotting ordered pairs; patterns in graphs — 36 pages
10. Math Trains – $5
Growing patterns that change & stay the same
Piggy discovers growing patterns. When she plots them as bar graphs, some are steeper than others, and she wonders why.
Content: growing patterns; parts that change or stay the same; multiple representations — 41 pages
11. Math Waves – $5
Circles make waves?
Hickety, dickety, dock, the mouse ran up the clock … and helped Peter discover math waves on clocks … and on car tires.
Content: time; bar graphs; patterning — 43 pages
12. Scary Patio Patterns – $5
Patterns that grow at different rates
Wolf has a math problem involving patio stones of two different colours. Will Piggy be able to help?
Content: growing patterns; area & perimeter relationships — 36 pages
MEASUREMENT / GEOMETRY
13. Big Party, Small Party – $5
Tables = area & chairs = perimeter?
Bear helps plan a party that is not too small and not too big, and discovers a relationship between area and perimeter.
Content: area and perimeter as an array of tables with chairs all around; finding arrangements with fewest chairs (shortest perimeter) — 38 pages
14. Wolf gets Hurt – $5
Building biggest pen. Environmental awareness.
The Piggies set a trap for Wolf and use math to build his pen. They also realize that their sloppy living habits hurt Wolf’s habitat.
Content: area & perimeter; largest rectangular area with 12 metres of fence — 38 pages
15. Do Parallel Lines Meet? – $5
Piggy and Wolf are running on parallel paths, but are they destined to meet? Piggy discovers that parallel lines aren’t as straight forward as she expected.
Content: parallel lines; flat and curved surfaces — 28 pages
16. Mirror, Mirror – $5
Which quilting pattern is the fairest of all?
When the Queen’s mirror can’t decide whether her quilt pattern is the fairest of all, the Queen hosts a Quilting Festival.
Content: tessellations; geometric shapes around us; symmetry — 40 pages
17. How Big is a Billion? – $5
What would you do with a billion dollars?
Savannah and Tanner meet a homeless family. What could they do to help? What could you do to help?
Content: mathematics of poverty; social justice — 40 pages
18. Why do Elephants have Big Ears? – $5
Math can explain why elephants have big ears!
Wolf asks, “Why do elephants have big ears?” and Hoodie uses cubes to model elephants of various sizes to discover a neat relationship between surface area and volume.
Content: volume & surface area relationships; patterns in data — 44 pages
DATA / PROBABILITY
19. Tortoise & Hare Hop to the Pond – $5
Will Hare lose a math race to Tortoise?
Hare challenges Tortoise to a rematch and discovers that it’s good probability thinking — and not good luck or good hopping — that wins the race.
Content: probability with two number cubes — 39 pages
20. How Left-handed are you? – $5
Can you measure left- and right-handedness?
Bear tries to measure how left-handed she is. How will she do it?
Content: measurement; data collection and analysis; methods for measuring left- and right-handedness — 34 pages