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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.