Square One TV/Episode 138

Episode 138
Season 1, Episode 38
Airdate	March 18, 1987
Production Number	38
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 138 is the thirty-eighth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the thirty-eighth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Yeardley Smith (Jane Rice Burroughs), Kurtis Blow (Himself)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Odd Numbers Strike

Roland Gummm interviews several odd numbers who have gone on strike to protest being called odd.

• Odd & Even Bricks

This animation takes a given line of bricks and adds either 1 or 2 more. The corresponding sound effects call out odd or even to go along with the addition.

• Music Video: Math Rap

Kurtis Blow, the rapper, enters the classroom and raps a song about mathematics as the cast keeps the beat.

• But Who's Counting?: Kerkendalls vs. San Simeons (EKA #106)

Contestants arrange 5 randomly chosen digits in an attempt to form the largest possible 5-digit number. To play, they must apply some knowledge of place value and probability.

• Soda Shoppe: Your Head (EKA #105)

2 customers use an easy way to compute a 10% tip, which they round up to the nearest 10 cents.

• The Phoneymooners: In the Doghouse

Alph and Throckmorton build a doghouse whose structural pieces rely on the fundamental properties of odd and even numbers.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Missing Monkey - Part 3 (EKA #103)

The Mathnetters continue looking for the monkey, measuring the distance between footprints and using a map to figure distance, rate, and time.

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