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PBS Math Club Season 1

Returning Series 2013–2018

Season 1 Episodes

8 episodes
1
What is an Integer
Oct 7, 2013
The best math study group ever teaches you about integers; positive whole numbers, like 1, 2, and 30, and their opposites, -1, -2, -30, and 0. You can use integers to borrow money from your friends so you can buy an awesome denim jacket, or even make critical decisions like choosing between Charlieissocoollike and Tobuscus - a hard choice.
2
Adding Negative Numbers
Oct 16, 2013
What do The Force and Mean Girls have to do with adding positive and negative numbers?
3
Multiplying Positive and Negative Numbers
Dec 19, 2013
Think your family is weird? This family's eccentricities get multiplied, like, tenfold. Which is perfect for learning about multiplying positive and negative numbers. Life multiplied.
4
"Trick" for Adding and Subtracting HUGE Numbers
Nov 18, 2013
Math Club gives you a "trick" to add and subtract big stacks of positive and negative numbers. Such as: --125,612 -- 523,613.12 = ? Ha... no problem if you use Math Club's ABCDE trick. After this, you will never have to worry about answering those pesky homework problems. Or... for ever.
5
Dividing Positive and Negative Numbers
Mar 18, 2014
Math Club brings you this news update. Negative numbers have begun dividing our country. For more on this breaking story, we go to the Math Club News Team (Grace, Madison, Jacob, and Hannah) to search for a solution for this divisive crisis.
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Mean (Averages) & The Math of Texts
May 5, 2014
Ever have that friend who OBSESSES over the meaning of EVERY text message? It can get real dramatic. At Math Club, we have a "secret mean" to help take the drama out of dating. What is this "secret" mean you ask? It's nothing more than an average, or the sum of a list of numbers divided by the size of the list. Mean: or as we call it, "life's highs and lows AVERAGED out."
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3D Shapes into 2D Objects
Feb 17, 2014
We've got an AMAZING machine for you, the SliceMaster, 2000. It lets you slice, slice, slice, 3D figures into perfectly flat 2D shapes. No odors! No tears! See all your favorite 3D shapes sliced into mouth watering 2D figures. With just a flick of the wrist, cubes become squares, cylinders become ovals, and cuboids become rhomboids. SliceMaster 2000.
9
Distributive Property
Sep 18, 2014
If you have ever made a friendship bracelet, then you have used the distributive property. The distributive property also reminds us of Oprah. Why? Watch and find out.