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Sketches in (hopefully) order:
15950 129-01 SHOW OPEN 0:46 BUMPER
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12631 129-02 MATINEE MOVIE PROMO 0:21 BUMPER
Shirly Schlemmer asks her viewing audience to tune into "Cartablanca", today's Matinee Movie.
13140 129-03 PERFECT SQUARES 3:25 SONG
A blues band sings about square numbers and graphically suggests their connection to geometry.
16610 129-04 OOPS! SUBTRACTION 300 - 163 1:27 STUDIO
A confused engineer makes a 'borrowing' mistake in a subtraction problem and causes a stock-footage plane crash.
12630 129-05 MATINEE MOVIE: CARTABLANCA 6:20 STUDIO
As three characters attempt to leave Cartablanca by plane, an Inspector rounds up their weights to make sure that they do not exceed the maximum load.
17721 129-06 SHOW REMAINDER 5 (100% ___OVER? LEFT) 0:07 BUMPER
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15380 129-07 PERCENTS 2:25 SONG
This glitzy song expresses the relations among percents, fractions, and decimals.
15720 129-08 MATHMAN: PERCENTAGES LESS THAN 1/2 1:13 ANIMATION
Mathman plays a video game in which he eats percentages less than 1/2.
13481 129-09 (GIANT SQUID) LEAD IN 0:05 BUMPER
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13480 129-10 IN SEARCH OF THE GIANT SQUID 3:51 STUDIO
The navigator of a submarine fails to consider the concept of scale -- and mistakenly thinks that they are only centimeters away from a giant iceberg.
17585 129-11 WARNING 5 (UNDERSTAND KIND OF SOLUTIONS) 0:09 BUMPER
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14084 129-12 MATHNET:MYSTERY OF THE MALTESE PIGEON-4 7:05 MATHNET
The Mathnetters use a database to check for names associated with the Maltese Pigeon. They then talk with an ice sculptor and surmise that the Pigeon could have been an ice sculpture that melted away.
Sketch Count:12
Episode Length(may exclude credits): 27:14

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