Square One TV/Episode 168

Episode 168
Season 1, Episode 68
Airdate	April 29, 1987
Production Number	68
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 168 is the sixty-eighth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the sixty-eighth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Madge Sinclair (Amelia Airliver)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Mathematics R Us: Fraction Reducer

Smilin' Al offers his customers a Fraction Reducer, a machine that automatically reduces fractions. Customers also receive a math scale to ensure that the original and reduced fraction balance.

• Mathman: Equivalent Fractions (1/3) (EKA #113)

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only fractions equivalent to 1/3.

• Sloppy Kitchen Commercial

Sloppy Poppy demonstrates the Handy Dandy Cake Press, a kitchen device that rearranges pieces of cake. The tool also illustrates that 3/15 is equivalent to 1/5.

• Has Gone By

• Stick Squares - Part 2

Alison Smith demonstrates toothpick square tricks to the viewing audience.

• Music Video: Action at the Fraction Bar (EKA #113)

The music video takes place at the futuristic Fraction Bar and uses vocabulary words associated with fractions. It also mentions the relation between fractions, decimals, and percents.

• But Who's Adding?: Anthony vs Jada (EKA #130)

2 contestants attempt to cover 3 numbers in a row by selecting addends of those numbers from the Addend board and calling out the resultant sum.

• EB: Overlapping Squares

This short animation demonstrates the different sized squares found in a 4 x 4 array of square blocks.

• Cabot & Marshmallow: What Day is It?

Marshmallow has a Days Of The Week candy bar. It is divided into 7 pieces, each corresponding to a different day of the week. He can tell what day it is by how many 7ths of the bar remain.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Missing Money - Part 3 (EKA #133)

Continuing to recover the Diamond, the Mathnetters calculate how much a carat weighs. They discover a piece of balloon canvas on the scene and discuss how far a helium balloon could travel.

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