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| Sketches in (hopefully) order: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21400 | 232-01 | COMBO JOMBO | 3:41 | SONG |
| The song demonstrates the use of combinatorics to find the number of combinations of bands of several sizes given the number of each type player available. | ||||
| 21320 | 232-02 | DIRKLET: MAKE A DRAWING | 1:33 | BUMPER |
| Dirk suggests that a good problem solving heuristic is to make a drawing in order to visualize a problem more clearly. | ||||
| 14311 | 232-03 No X | DATA HEADACHE I | 1:10 | STUDIO |
| A woman uses a bar chart to organize her monthly expenses and rid herself of a data headache. | ||||
| 20560 | 232-04 | SQUARE ONE SQUARES #4 | 5:27 | GAME SHOW |
| Two students try to determine which cast member is giving the correct answer to the questions: Grid with Star, and Futuristic Money. | ||||
| 20561 | 232-04 | SQUARE ONE SQUARES #4 QUESTION 1 | 0:00 | GAME SHOW QUESTION |
| What number belongs in the square with the star in it, if you count along the edge of a 10x10 grid? | ||||
| 20562 | 232-04 | SQUARE ONE SQUARES #4 QUESTION 2 | 0:00 | GAME SHOW QUESTION |
| Which of the two figures contains more triangles? | ||||
| 21580 | 232-05 | POLYHEDRONS - 1 (TETRAHEDRON) VERSION 2 | 0:24 | ANIMATION |
| This animation illustrates how an arrangement of triangles fold up into a 3-dimensional tetrahedron. | ||||
| 15537 | 232-06 No X | BLACKSTONE: DIME, PENNY, NICKEL | 2:04 | STUDIO |
| Blackstone uses a fundamental property of even and odd numbers to correctly identify which hand holds the dime and which holds the penny. His follow-up trick depends on psychology--not mathematics. | ||||
| 16250 | 232-07 No X | INFINITY (INFINITE REGRESS) | 0:41 | ANIMATION |
| The camera zooms in on Beverly sitting in a room with a picture of Beverly sitting in a room with a picture of Beverly sitting in a room -- to illustrate the idea of infinite regress. | ||||
| 20031 | 232-08 | MATHNET-CASE OF THE WILLING PARROT-2 | 12:06 | MATHNET |
| The Mathnetters find their ghost, Norman Tedge, hiding out in the mansion. Then they uncover a puzzle with a particular pattern which might prove to have a bearing on the missing money. | ||||
| Sketch Count: | 10 | |||
| Episode Length(may exclude credits): | 27:06 | |||
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