The Prime Radicals
A live-action math education television series on TVOKids, developed by Lynda Colgan, Director of the Community Outreach Centre, in collaboration with Executive Producer Hoda Elatawi, General Assembly Production Centre (Ottawa), the shows make numbers cool for kids with scenarios showing how math is used for everything from clubhouse renovations to cooking.

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Mathemagic 

A book written by Lynda Colgan, Director of the Community Outreach Centre, which makes math becomes magic for kids. The book includes ten different categories of math tricks, which are explained using colourful illustrations, step-by-step instructions and explanations of how and why these number tricks work.  Mathemagic was selected by the American-based Junior Library Guild as one of the “best of the best” publications for 2011 and has been nominated by the Ontario Library Association for its Forest of Reading® Program 2012 Silver Birch Award for Children's Non-Fiction.  

Making Math Magic at Home!

Making Math Magic at Home is a 124-page resource book that is filled with tips, tools, activities and games to make learning math a part of everyday life. Included in the book are instruction pages that teach how to make origami creations, do magic tricks with math, create coded pictures and message, learn math from the calendar and measure your body using the rule of thumb. There are games, puzzles and math-focused craft activities that are purposeful and fun to engage learners from Kindergarten to Grade 8.

Math Placemats:  Kindergarten Placemat 1,  Kindergarten Placemat 2, Kindergarten Placemat 3,  Grades 1 - 3 Placemats, Grades 4 - 6 Placemats, Placemats in French

Math Placemats are one-page activity pages that are rich in puzzles, riddles, questions and simple visuals to engage children at the kitchen table, during long car rides or during indoor recess.  They are great take-alongs to restaurants and events to occupy children in meaningful ways by practicing math content from all the strands: Number Sense, Geometry, Patterning, Data Management, Probability and Measurement while having fun.

Family Fun with Math Calendar

This calendar provides a math question, activity or challenge for every day of the year.  Some can be done quickly and others take more time, and no special equipment is needed to complete the questions.  The theme is nursery rhymes like Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and Humpty Dumpty and scenarios that involve lost sheep, broken shapes and cupboard contents provide the context for the problems posed each month.  We have tried to provide something for the entire family, so you will find puzzles for the Kindergartner as well as problems for the sixth grader, and for every problem, there is a solution at the back of the calendar.  The problems, puzzles and activities span all five strands of Ontario's elementary mathematics curriculum.

Mathematical Melodies 

Developed by the Community Outreach Centre, Mathematical Melodies (the songs, lyrics and lesson plans)  help students understand the complex world of math in a fun, lighthearted and ‘fine tuned’ manner.  Providing games, hands on activities, children’s literature connections and multi media resources to encourage children to construct relationships and ideas with mathematical content is our bonus to you.

Mathakazam Video
Mathakazam! is a 30 minute puppet play created by the Community Outreach Centre that illustrates the ways in which math impacts daily life and why it is ‚cool‛ to like and do math. In two weeks, over 2000 children from 27 schools will have participated in performances of the play that featured four teacher candidate puppeteers.

Mathakazam Resources

MATHAKAZAM! is play is about two children, Mathew and Mathilda, and their mother, an unusual professor who loves all things math-y! Much of the play is self-explanatory and will require little explanation.  However, there is a dream sequence in which some “Flat Stanley” style puppets are introduced.  These puppets introduce some people who have used math in interesting ways: Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman and Wilson Bentley.  There are also references to Canadian figure skaters, Virtue and Moir and Gulliver (in the land of Lilliput).  To help you to help your children to recognize these characters and why they are famous for math, a teacher candidate, Kathia Cordoba, has generated the attached resource materials for you.  Meet these famous characters and see how math is everywhere in the world around us. 

Science Teaching Videos

The Mathematics, Science and Technological Education (MSTE) Group at the Faculty of Education has sponsored the creation of a series of science videos for junior grade teachers. Each video is comprised of a series of easy-to-follow vignettes that show a science educator, Jovan Groen, performing "hands on" science activities that can be easily replicated in any classroom with minimal equipment. Jovan not only demonstrates the activity , but provides background information and a materials list. Videos are available for the following units of study: grade 4 Light and Sound; grade 4 Pulleys and Gears; grade 5 Forces; grade 5 Matter; grade 5 Human Body Systems; grade 6 Flight and grade 6 Space. Teachers are invited to use them free of charge.