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| Sketches in (hopefully) order: | ||||
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| 50770 | 517-01 | SEASON FIVE OPENING | 0:38 | MISCELLANEOUS |
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| 50510 | 517-02 | MATHCOURT: AVERAGES | 4:30 | STUDIO |
| Prosecutor contends that team with higher average number of runs per game is the better team. Defendant counters that team with the most wins is the better team -- they are not the same. | ||||
| 14150 | 517-03 | LESS THAN ZERO | 2:05 | SONG |
| This song presents a diving, dance, skating, and hammer-throw competition to show arithmetic realizations of negative numbers. | ||||
| 50660 | 517-04 | PAULINE #1 | 2:49 | ANIMATION |
| Video character Pauline gets 2 chances to find a path to the top of a pyramid of numbered blocks. Each number she lands on (positive or negative) adds to her score, which must stay between 25 and -25. | ||||
| 43050 | 517-05 | IF IT'S OUT THERE: SHOPPER (WATERMELON) | 1:02 | LIVE ACTION FILM |
| Watermelons cost $1.00 each, so with 75 cents a customer gets 3/4 of a watermelon. The remaining 1/4 watermelon goes to a young girl who gives a quarter to the resourceful cashier. | ||||
| 44100 | 517-06 | DICK & VERN: PENCIL & PAPER QUIZ SHOW | 0:42 | ANIMATION |
| Dick and Vern tell the viewer to get pencil and paper so they can play along with "But Who's Counting?" | ||||
| 43110 | 517-07 | BUT WHO'S COUNTING?: LARGEST SUM 8/1 | 2:29 | GAME SHOW |
| Players arrange four randomly chosen numbers on their boards to form the largest sum of two fractions. To play, they apply understanding of probability and fractions. | ||||
| 50252 | 517-08 | MATHNET-CASE OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE-2 | 13:39 | MATHNET |
| Trudy explains how she used maps and other clues to search for a ship which sank during the Revolutionary War. The Mathnetters go to Bermuda with her to try another possible site. | ||||
| 50780 | 517-09 | LONG CLOSE | 0:56 | MISCELLANEOUS |
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| Sketch Count: | 9 | |||
| Episode Length(may exclude credits): | 28:50 | |||
Notes: Emphasis: Negative Numbers (mini)
Note Less Than Zero oddity.