Mathematical notions
These worksheets connect tales (Myths section) to mathematical concepts (Maths section). Several uses are possible: tell the stories at the beginning of a session to introduce the concepts, carry out the exercises and suggested activities to deepen understanding, or have your students tell the tales themselves! Through their recurring motifs, logical sequences, and mirrored structures, tales become a medium to explore concepts such as symmetry, the finite and the infinite, and even zero.
Powers, doubling, huge numbers… and an overwhelmed king
The Legend of Chess
Perimeters, Areas... and a Very Clever Queen
Dido’s ruse
Order, conditions, logic… and a hen who does it all
The Little Red Hen
Fractions, sharing… and a hungry fox
The Two Bear Cubs Too Greedy and the Fox
Divisions, fairness… and an intruder!
The Five Breads
Proportions, disputes… and a Horse that didn’t count
The Farmer’s will
An Unknown in the Equation… et a Tricky Statue
The Weight of the Statue
Decimals, intervals… and a conciliatory judge
The Wisdom of a Judge
Divisions, quotients, distribution… and an inventive little girl
The Christmas Goose
Graphical representations… and an unstoppable tortoise
The Tortoise and the Hare
Modeling, Calculation… and a perfectly timed forest
The Century Forest
Volumes, divisions… and a fearless god
The Eye of Horus






