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Smart Math Story CD demo

Demo of Math Waves - All 14 Smart Math Stories are also available on CD - ideal for computers and interactive whiteboards - only $39

Lesson plans

Click on a links to download a FREE lesson plans, as PDF files.

Smart Math Stories

Something Curiousy Odd - lesson plan
Math Waves - lesson plan and 4 activity handouts

Smart Science Stories

Nokomis Shines - lesson plan

More lesson plans coming soon!

Documentaries of using Smart Math & Science Stories

Cool teaching ideas using Smart Math Stories.

Making 10 (grades 3-4 - based on Making 10)
Math Waves (grades 1-4 - based on Math Waves )
Math Trains (grades 1-4 - based on Math Trains)
Do parallel lines meet? (grade 2 - based on Do Parallel Lines Meet?)
Area and perimeter (grade 2 - based on Wolf Gets Hurt!)
Odd numbers hiding in squares (grades 2,7 - based on Who's the Big Bad Wolf?)
Story-based math projects (grade 2 - based on Add it Up!)

Cool teaching ideas using Smart Science Stories.

Eating Plastic (grade 3/4 teacher interview based on Nokomis Shines)

Who's the Big Bad Wolf?

See a video performance below.

Science Tales at a summer camp

Having science fun using Science Tales as a starting point.

Refraction action (based on The Secret of the Broken Spear)
Will it float, will it sink? (based on The Secret of the Stone)
Big apple, small apple (based on Robin Hood and the Surprise Target & Robin Hood's Dilemma )

Making 8 ... across the grades

A set of videos showing children's thinking in grades 1, 5 and 8 on the theme of three stories: (1) Making 10 (gr. 1-3); (2) Making 10 - Stage 2 (gr. 4-8); and (3) The Pleasure of Making Ten (gr. 4-8)

see the videos

Molly on Making 10

Based on the math stories Making 10 (gr. 1-3), Making 10 - Stage 2 (gr. 4-8) and the time-travel story The Pleasure of Making 10 (gr. 4-8).

Molly on Math + Story

Highlighting Pat Hutchins' story The Doorbell Rang and the Math Tale To Infinity and Beyond (gr. 2-8).