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| Sketches in (hopefully) order: | ||||
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| 15950 | 329-01 | SHOW OPEN | 0:46 | BUMPER |
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| 30740 | 329-02 | MATH-ZA-POPPIN' #3 | 4:58 | STUDIO |
| Pledge Central uses bar chart to show pledges for 5 days - there is an upward trend. Letter from gray-haired lady tells how her son was reformed because of his enthusiasm for mathematics. | ||||
| 31030 | 329-03 | PERSON ON THE STREET: STACK B'BALL CARDS | 0:45 | LIVE ACTION FILM |
| People on the street are asked: A stack of one thousand baseball cards is about one and a half feet high. If you stack one million cards, how high would that pile be? | ||||
| 31215 | 329-04 | INSERT: QUEEN-WON'T SOLVE ALL | 0:11 | BUMPER |
| "Math won't solve all your problems but it comes pretty close." | ||||
| 30930 | 329-05 | MICHIGAN STADIUM: CARDS (790 THOU) | 1:37 | LIVE ACTION FILM |
| The following question is posed to the viewer: How many baseball cards would it take to cover the entire playing field of the Michigan Stadium? | ||||
| 14340 | 329-06 Has X | LEMONADE STAND IN THE DESERT | 2:46 | STUDIO |
| Shari Belafonte Harper runs a lemonade stand that sells lemonade for 26% of one dollar. She and Arthur discuss percent and decimal relations - especially as they pertain to money. | ||||
| 30400 | 329-07 | WANG SPOT: LEMONADE | 1:25 | LIVE ACTION FILM |
| Girl describes to a boy how she convinced her brother to give her a loan for her lemonade stand by computing how much profit she would earn. | ||||
| 20190 | 329-08 | MATHMAN: SHOW INTERRUPT #1 (45%) | 0:28 | ANIMATION |
| Mathman is told that 45% of the show has elapsed and must decide what percent remains. | ||||
| 30520 | 329-09 | BUT WHO'S COUNTING?: LARGEST EVEN | 4:14 | GAME SHOW |
| Players arrange five randomly chosen digits in an attempt to form the largest possible even 5-digit number. To play, they must apply some knowledge of place value and probability. | ||||
| 30084 | 329-10 | MATHNET-CASE OF THE MASKED AVENGER-4 | 10:57 | MATHNET |
| George meets with The Mob dressed as the Avenger, wearing microphone and camera. They tell him to lose the fight or else. Mathnetters begin to see pattern in results of tournament and Mob threats. | ||||
| 31240 | 329-11 | LONG CLOSE | 0:44 | BUMPER |
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| Sketch Count: | 11 | |||
| Episode Length(may exclude credits): | 28:51 | |||
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