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  • A Surprise in the Oven 

    Once upon a time a plump old woman name Tante Adela lived in French Canada.  She lived all alone with her big grey cat and the cows in her barn. One morning she got up very early as it baking day and there was much to do.  She took a load of wood outside to…

  • The Bear Feast

    An old man living in Alaska was sad.  All of his friends and family were long gone.  He began to wonder if he should leave the village and start a new life somewhere else. “If I lived someplace new, at least I won’t be around all these memories anymore,” he thought.  But he also worried,…

  • Binary Numbers

    Summary The binary number system is a base-2 number system. This means it only has two numbers: 0 and 1. The number system that we normally use is the decimal number system. It has 10 numbers: 0-9. Why use binary numbers? Binary numbers are very useful in electronics and computer systems. Digital electronics can easily…

  • Roman Numerals

    Skills needed: Multiplication Addition Subtraction Roman numerals were used by the Ancient Romans as their numbering system. We still use them sometimes today. You see them in the Super Bowl’s numbering system, after king’s names (King Henry IV), in outlines, and other places. Roman numerals are base 10 or decimal, like the numbers we use…

  • Prime Numbers

    Skills needed: Multiplication Division Addition Whole numbers What is a prime number? A prime number is a whole number with exactly two factors, itself and 1. Okay, maybe that’s a bit hard to understand. Let’s take a look at some examples: The number 5 is a prime number because it cannot be divided evenly by…

  • Chako Chaki

    There was once a male sparrow and female sparrow who lived together happily. They jumped from one branch to another and flew freely. With team work, they built a nest for themselves and made their home ready. One day, the female sparrow brought rice and the male sparrow brought lentils. He cooked Khichdi – an…

  • Adam and the Dragon’s Treasure

    Adam lived in a small village in the south of Poland near to the big city of Krakow. Adam’s favourite part of the day was dinner time. Not because his mother made the best food in the whole world, but because, at dinner time, the whole family would sit around the television and watch the…

  • What We Plant, We Will Eat

    A long time ago, two brothers lived with their father in a small house in Korea. The younger brother worked hard and was kind to everyone but the older boy was arrogant and proud. He scorned his younger brother and ignored his ageing father. Every night after supper, the father would say: ‘Remember boys that…

  • Why Elephants Can’t Fly

    A long time ago, much longer than most people can remember, elephants could fly! They had four enormous wings and they whizzed through the sky so fast that it amazed the other animals. But these big beasts were sometimes also stupid. But shhh… the other animals would keep quiet about it and never discuss it.…

  • The Three Fish

    Once, three fish lived in a pond. One evening, some fishermen passed by the pond and saw the fish. ‘This pond is full of fish’, they told each other. ‘We have never fished here before. We must come back tomorrow morning with our nets and catch these fish!’ When the eldest of the three fish…

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