Square One TV/Episode 123

Episode 123
Season 1, Episode 23
Airdate	February 25, 1987
Production Number	23
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 123 is the twenty-third episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the twenty-third episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Eve McVeagh (Mrs. Swaggle)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• King for a Day

When a king wants to divide his trapezoidally-shaped country into 3 pieces--2 of which are the same size but smaller than the third--he cuts off a triangle from each side, leaving a large rectangle.

• Person of the Street: Trapezoid

The Person on the Street Interviewer asks a variety of people what a trapezoid is.

• Trapezoid Monks

Because these monks speak only once every 10 years, the world waits patiently as they define and illustrate a trapezoid.

• Mathman: Even Numbers

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only even numbers.

• Daddy Knows Different: Lawn Mowing - Part 1

Dad and Rusty discuss how to figure out the area of their irregular lawn in order to determine how much to pay Rusty for mowing it. Dad decides to uses his Super Mower with built-in measuring device.

• Music Video: "Roman Numeral Blues"

Luisa enters a dream-like world in this song about Roman numerals

• Daddy Knows Different: Lawn Mowing - Part 2

When Dad's Super Mower with built-in measuring device fails to measure the lawn, Rusty pulls out an aerial photograph of the lawn. The 2 figure out the area - but Dad's already mowed the lawn.

• Oops!: Division 6 Into 4212

A confused scientist fails to acknowledge place value and makes a long division mistake that causes a stock-footage disaster.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Dirty Money - Part 3

The Mathnetters discover that a famous bank robber once lived in the house that previously sat atop the land from where the dirt was stolen.

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