episodes
- 1. Measuring: Measuring Instruments A Dallas-type plot pits big-business baron Roy Singleton with a young farm family, the Nobles. For quite a while, Singleton has tried to take their property, and now he seems to have found the answer...
- 2. Measuring: Formulas The proposed road for the Noble family is too expensive to build. When Leona argues that the high price doesn't make sense, she is told that a road has three dimensions. It would take 23 dump trucks...
- 3. Comparing: Numerical Comparisons Armondo, a high-school-aged garage mechanic has just received a $1,000 check for a job on which he had spent long hours. His girlfriend wonders what such back-breaking effort is worth.
- 4. Comparing: Percent Leona wants to spend a large chunk of money on a knockout dress for the upcoming prom. The others in her family insist that she think of a simpler solution, one that will fit her yearly budget. This...
- 5. Comparing: Finding a Common Unit At a new location, a marina, Cynthia is running a successful business as a sailing instructor. But the business threatens to stop dead when a new student, Myrna Mitchell, damages the hull of Cynthia'...
- 6. Comparing: Ratios Micki Tenini, the sister of an up-and-coming record producer, is joining a band called the Marveltones. She clashes slightly with the bandleader, Henry (Apollo) Jackson, who reminds her the proportio...
- 7. Locating & Interpreting: Organizing Information After a real-life scene in which health detectives break down the cause of diseases, the story of a band and a recording studio picks up from the previous episode. The new secretary can't keep track...
- 8. Locating & Interpreting: Graphs A car accident has prompted the driver, Blanca Ortiz, to take action. She is deeply upset for the boy who had to cross the busy street to reach a playground. It was nobody's fault that the accident...
- 9. Locating & Interpreting: Maps, Charts and Tables Cynthia accepts a sailing challenge from her old nemesis. At the insistence of a sea captain, Cynthia charts out the proposed race route and the tide tables. Thus she plots a few sailing smarts to w...
- 10. Predicting: Probability Micki and the Marveltones put a lot of money and effort into recording a single, hoping that a radio station will play it. But the record gets lost in a slew of submissions from local bands (this is...
- 11. Predicting: Choosing a Sample The city council wants to pass a bill that would prohibit commercial use of the marina. That would sacrifice Cynthia's sailing instructions. But just who is in favor of restricting use of the marina...
- 12. Predicting: Averages Tony has bought a car from a local dealer. Thinking he has got a bargain based on the average gas mileage on this model, Tony finds himself at the gasoline pumps more often than he would like. At ab...