20 MATH STORIES, K-8

in English, French & Spanish

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NUMBER

1. Something odd – $5


Where do odd numbers hide?

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


Neat ways to add!

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


Neat ways to multiply!

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


Parallel lines can meet!

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