Square One TV/Episode 102

Episode 102
Season 1, Episode 2
Airdate	January 27, 1987
Production Number	2
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 102 is the second episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the second episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Harry Blackstone (Himself), Yeardley Smith (Jane Rice-Burroughs)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• American Blandstand

Space travellers find themselves contestants on a game show, rating songs. The song with the highest average score wins. The characters learn that an average can't be higher than the highest score.

• Newsroom Interruption: 18

• Rappin' Judge

A judge raps his decision that a girl on a skateboard could not have committed the crime because she could not have travelled 8 miles in 2 hours if she were only going 3 miles per hour.

• Blackstone Lead-In & Tag

• Backstage with Blackstone: Dime, Penny, Nickel

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.

• 9's Intro (cut from the Noggin version)

• Exclusive Music Video: "Nine, Nine, Nine" (The House Band) (cut from the Noggin version)

The cast sings a country music tune expressing the idea that the sum of the digits of any multiple of 9 always add up to 9 or a multiple of 9.

• Warning: Understand Kind of Solutions

• The Map

An older boy and his little brother use a map scale to estimate distance and travel time.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Missing Monkey - Part 2

In their continued search for a missing monkey, the Mathnetters come across information presented in a circle graph and use a map and compass to estimate the approximate location of the gorilla.

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