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Square One TV/Episode 144

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Episode 144
Season 1, Episode 44
Airdate March 26, 1987
Production Number 44
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 144 is the forty-fourth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the forty-fourth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Jason Wingreen (General Scarlett), Tyra Ferrell (Ginnie Carlson), Jesse Howard (Howie)


Co-Starring:

Contents

Segments

  • Cabot & Marshmallow: Wooden Candy Bars (EKA #108)

Cabot uses 3 differently shaped rectangular wooden blocks to illustrate that objects with different dimensions can still have the same volume.


  • Forestry: Units of Measure

Sybil Sawyer, Hollywood Reporter, interviews a logger who explains how they calculate the volume of board feet in any log.


  • Oops!: Decimals & Multiplication

When a confused character puts the decimal point in the wrong place, disaster results.


  • Queen's Bed

In the days before standardized measurement, a king accuses a carpenter of mis-making a queen-sized bed. But, the king measured the bed according to his foot and the carpenter measured using his foot.


  • How Much Left


  • Mathman: Multiples of 6

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only multiples of 6.


  • Music Video: "Countin' Out the Rhythm" (EKA #116)

This song, staged in a very urban setting, illustrates that there are 4 beats to every musical measure. The song also stresses the idea of subdividing each measure into 8 and 16 beats as well.


  • But Who's Adding? (EKA #117)

2 contestants attempt to cover 3 numbers in a row by selecting 2 addends from the Addend Board. They then call out the resultant sum.


  • Mathnet: The Problem of the Missing Baseball - Part 4 (EKA #109)

The Mathnetters determine the worth of stolen gold bars as they piece together a picture of the man who may have stolen the house. They also use a map to determine the range a helicopter could fly.


  • Next time...

Notes

Trivia

The Show

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