Square One TV/Episode 517

Episode 517
Season 5, Episode 17
Airdate	October 13, 1992
Production Number	212
Written by
Directed by
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Square One TV — Season Five

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Episode 517 is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of Square One TV, and the two-hundred twelfth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Nile Lanning (Trudy Ebbtide)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Mathcourt: Averages

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.

• Music Video: "Less Than Zero" (Negative Scratch) (EKA #103)

This song presents a diving, dance, skating, and hammer-throw competition to show arithmetic realizations of negative numbers.

• Pauline (EKA #514)

Video character Pauline gets 2 chances to find a path to the top of a pyramid of numbered blocks. Each number she lands on adds to her score, which must stay between 25 and -25.

• If It's Out There: Shopper (EKA #402)

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.

• Dick & Vern: Pencil & Paper Quiz Show (EKA #436)

Dick and Vern tell the viewer to get pencil and paper so they can play along with "But Who's Counting?"

• But Who's Counting?: Don Juan-2-3 vs. Hedda Hair (EKA #415)

Players arrange 4 randomly chosen numbers on their boards to form the largest sum of 2 fractions. To play, they apply understanding of probability and fractions.

• Mathnet: The Case of the Bermuda Triangle - Part 2

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.