The Prime Radicals
Each 14 minute live action episode takes viewers to Uncle Norm's workshop, usually the scene of his latest misadventure. The Radicals-cousins Kevin and Alanna-come to the rescue every time. They enlist experts, such as a kite boarder, rancher or maple syrup expert, to help them solve Uncle Norm's problems with mathematical solutions. This season, kids are in for a few surprises, including the radically cool Inventinator, plus a host of talented young singers. Every show ends with a fun math project kids can make at home.
- 2011-2014
- 2 seasons
- Family
- TV-G
Each 14 minute live action episode takes viewers to Uncle Norm's workshop, usually the scene of his latest misadventure. The Radicals-cousins Kevin and Alanna-come to the rescue every time. They enlist experts, such as a kite boarder, rancher or maple syrup expert, to help them solve Uncle Norm's problems with mathematical solutions. This season, kids are in for a few surprises, including the radically cool Inventinator, plus a host of talented young singers. Every show ends with a fun math project kids can make at home.
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 2013 - 2014
Episode 1
Getting Around
14 mins
Uncle Norm needs to find the perfect sized foil ball to fit into the hole atop his all-purpose invention machine, the Inventonator - one that will spark its thoughts.
Episode 2
In the Mode
14 mins
When Uncle Norm tells Alanna and Kevin that the local ice cream shop is sold out of their favorite Choco Crunch ice cream, they set off to figure out why Bernie's parlour can't keep it in stock.
Episode 3
Coloring Inside the Lines
14 mins
At the workshop, Uncle Norm is a frustrated artist who is trying to teach the Inventonator simple animation, in the hopes of bringing to life their math-tastic adventures in a cartoon called "Rad Stuff".
Episode 4
Take Me to Your Litre
14 mins
Uncle Norm is heading off with his hush hush pals on a camping weekend. He knows that a grown-up needs to drink about one and one-half litres of water every day, and he's not totally sure how much a litre is.
Episode 5
And Five Makes Ten!
13 mins
At the last minute, Alannna's swim team needs someone to manage the cash box at a craft sale. It is up to Uncle Norm to save the day, in spite of his fear of change...making change, that is.
Episode 6
The Kilo Conundrum
14 mins
The Rads find Uncle Norm trying to figure out the weight and cost of healthy snacks by trying to weigh one grape.
Episode 7
Uncle Norm's Roots
13 mins
Uncle Norm finds Alanna and Kevin in the Workshop, squinting through a magnifying glass at small maple trees. He wants to know when they can get sap: bean seeds can grow as high as the tool shed in one summer, so why not a baby tree?
Episode 8
Think of All the Probabilities
13 mins
Alanna and Kevin are looking out the workshop window watching the rain teem down. They turn to see a totally soaked, dripping, and perplexed Uncle Norm. After all, it was really sunny when he left earlier.
Episode 9
Playing the Angles!
13 mins
Alanna and Kevin arrive at the workshop and are puzzled to hear eerie music and the entire workshop decorated like a horror movie set.
Episode 10
Tangled Up in String
14 mins
On his way out the door, Uncle Norm finds a tear in his coat.
Episode 11
Bunnies OK Corral
14 mins
Uncle Norm's neighbor Mrs. Pearplum's prized bunnies have escaped. The Rads need to find a way to help her build a better bunny corral.
Episode 12
Get in on the Fraction Action
13 mins
Kevin and Alanna enter the clubhouse and find Norm on the telephone ordering his all time fave, a large cheese quesadilla.
Episode 13
Time and Again
14 mins
Alanna is overjoyed with the fact that she has won a prize in a school contest.
Episode 14
Mathemagic
13 mins
Uncle Norm - otherwise known as the "Norm the Normificent" - is trying to make a magic show appear.
Episode 15
Once Upon Five Minutes of Time
13 mins
Alanna and Kevin enter the noisy workshop and find an excited, hammer-waving Uncle Norm building a time machine.
Episode 16
Taking Your Temperature
13 mins
On a swelteringly hot day Kevin and Alanna find Uncle Norm covered in perspiration...and is that yogurt all over his face?
Episode 17
Diamond in the Rough
13 mins
Alanna and Kevin put on their math hats when they enter the Stuff n' Such Shop and find Uncle Norm attempting to teach the Inventonator about measuring.
Episode 18
Slides, Flips, Turns and Quilts
13 mins
The kids have noticed that Uncle Norm's old quilt is quite threadbare and they decide to make a new one using a super cool design.
Episode 19
Scale Me Up!
14 mins
The Rads arrive at the workshop to find Uncle Norm (sporting a black beret, and artist's smock) with small sketches of the Inventonator.
Episode 20
An Equal Share Is Always Fair!
13 mins
Uncle Norm and Walter the rubber duck have been volunteered to help organize a bake sale to help the rubber duck-racing club buy a new training pool.
Episode 21
I'm Diggin' Those Calculations
14 mins
Something just isn't adding up. Uncle Norm has been entering tons of different store contests but always seems to get the answers to the skill testing math questions wrong and it's testing his patience.
Episode 22
Cracking the Code!
13 mins
Uncle Norm's boss gave him an important top secret mission: and it involves sending the Normbot on a secret mission all around the world.
Episode 23
There's Magic in Those Squares
13 mins
Uncle Norm has been chosen to host games night for his secret co-workers and he wants to put a new twist on the get-together,
Episode 24
What Are the Chances?
14 mins
Uncle Norm, has been chosen to host "Games Night" for his secret co-workers and he wants to put a new twist on the get-together.
Episode 25
Working on My Tangram
14 mins
Kevin has a project for class and he's chosen to focus on a very different kind of puzzle, a Chinese puzzle called a tangram.
Episode 26
Go Fly a Kite!
13 mins
Alanna and Kevin hear woeful sounds emanating from the Workshop where they find Uncle Norm all twisted up in string with what sort of looks like a kite dangling from the end of it.