4/29/1987

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Sketches in (hopefully) order:
15950 168-01 SHOW OPEN 0:46 BUMPER
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13680 168-02 MATHEMATICS R US: FRACTION REDUCER 3:54 STUDIO
Smilin' Al offers his customers a Fraction Reducer, a machine that automatically reduces fractions. Customers also receive a math scale to ensure that the original and reduced fraction balance.
15650 168-03 MATHMAN: EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS (1/3) 1:24 ANIMATION
Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only fractions equivalent to 1/3.
14580 168-04 SLOPPY KITCHEN COMMERCIAL 2:45 STUDIO
Sloppy Poppy demonstrates the Handy Dandy Cake Press, a kitchen device that rearranges pieces of cake. The tool also illustrates that 3/15 is equivalent to 1/5.
17301 168-05 VO: HAS GONE BY 0:05 BUMPER
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13952 168-06 STICK SQUARES - 2 0:42 STUDIO
Alison Smith demonstrates toothpick square tricks to the viewing audience.
13250 168-07 ACTION AT THE FRACTION BAR 2:24 SONG
The music video takes place at the futuristic Fraction Bar and uses vocabulary words associated with fractions. It also mentions the relation between fractions, decimals, and percents.
16813 168-08 BUT WHO'S ADDING: 4 4:11 GAME SHOW
Two contestants attempt to cover three numbers in a row by selecting addends of those numbers from the Addend board and calling out the resultant sum.
17180 168-09 EB: OVERLAPPING SQUARES 0:32 ANIMATION
This short animation demonstrates the different sized squares found in a 4 x 4 array of square blocks.
14720 168-10 CABOT & MARSHMALLOW: WHAT DAY IS IT? 1:35 STUDIO
Marshmallow has a Days Of The Week candy bar. It is divided into 7 pieces, each corresponding to a different day of the week. He can tell what day it is by how many sevenths of the bar remain.
11043 168-11 MATHNET:PROBLEM OF THE TROJAN HAMBURG-3 9:01 MATHNET
Continuing to recover the Diamond, the Mathnetters calculate how much a carat weighs. They discover a piece of balloon canvas on the scene and discuss how far a helium ballon could travel.
Sketch Count:11
Episode Length(may exclude credits): 27:19

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