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 Cyberchase
Airs M-F from 2:30-3:00 p.m.
The Emmy Award-winning series CYBERCHASE teaches kids aged 8-12 math concepts in a fun way they can understand. Packed with mystery, humor, and action, the TV show features a team of curious kids who outwit, outsmart, and outlast the bad guys in their adventurous quest to save Cyberspace.
Each episode takes the heroes on a thrilling adventure driven by a different concept - from tackling time in ancient Egyptian tombs to cracking codes in creepy caves. Kids readily learn that math is everywhere and fun to use! And even more exciting for teachers, each episode is tied to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards - so it can be used to supplement a core curriculum!
August
 8/1 Chaos as Usual (Show 609)
Spot a pattern in a player's performances and you can predict what that player will do in a game. Math Topic: Math & Sports: Data Collection Big Idea: Spot a pattern in a player's performances and you can predict what that player will do in a game.
8/4 Penguin Tears (Show 403)
Hacker's secret quest continues, with the nefarious 'borg on the hunt for the next piece of his mysterious machine. His search for the legendary Prism of Penguia takes him to snowy Cyberia. Math Topic: Angles in Bouncing Big Idea: Balls that bounce all follow a simple rule - 'angle-in-equals-angle-out' - that you can master to make balls go just where you want, bounce after bounce.
8/5 The Grapes of Plath (Show 306)
It's the day before his all-important "Changing of the Shell" Ceremony and the young Prince of the Crab Kingdom has been struck by a terrible cyberglitch - now he can't stop telling lies! Math Topic: High-Low Estimation Big Idea: A careful estimate can often give you a useful answer to a problem.
8/6 The Case Of The Missing Memory (Show 407)
Under the guise of a peace mission, Wicked arrives at Control Central with a handful of bad guys. But when someone steals Motherboard's precious Memory Integrator, Digit and the kids must figure out what they know, what they don't know, and what they need to know. Math Topic: Missing Information Big Idea: When faced with a problem, make sure you have all the information you need to solve it.
8/7 Hugs & Witches (Show 201)
It's Valentine's Day, and Hacker captures Doctor Marbles and Lady Ada Lovelace, placing them inside a time machine invented by the mathematically-minded Lovelace. Math Topic: Data Clusters Big Idea: When you have different numbers that describe members of a group, you can often find one number to fairly represent the group as a whole.
8/8 The Fairy Borg Father (Show 505)
Delete is having a bad day. Hacker yelled at him and Buzz made fun of his first-ever invention, a "Bunny-Copter." When he wishes things were better, Delete discovers he has a Fairy Borg Father named Zanko, who appears and grants him nine wishes. Math Topic: Inventions Big Idea: Build a working model of your invention to communicate and test your ideas, and make necessary improvements so the invention works the way you want it to.
8/11 Cool It (Show 114)
Hacker clogs Motherboard's cooling system. The kids must get the right amount of coolant to unclog it, so they learn about measuring liquid volumes fast. Math Topic: Liquid Volume Big Idea: Just because one container appears bigger than another to the eye doesn't mean it holds more liquid. A container's volume depends on all its dimensions.
8/12 A Broom Of One's Own (Show 409)
When Wicked puts a CyberSquad Seal of Approval on her new "Wickedy Brooms," it's up to Matt, Jackie, Inez, and Digit to make sure that the brooms are as good as she claims. The brooms pass the test—but Wicked doesn't, and the kids must race to Control Central to foil her scheme to take over Hacker's turf. Math Topic: Estimation Big Idea: Sometimes using a close answer is good enough for the problem you are solving.
8/13 A Fraction of a Chance (Show 510)
When Matt, Jackie, and Inez get stuck in the vortex of a cyberportal, Digit must find the U.V.O.—the Universal Vortex Opener—to rescue them. When he finds all the portals jammed so that he can't travel anywhere, help comes from a surprising source: Wicked!
Math Topic: Fractions 101 Big Idea: When you share parts of a whole, it takes two numbers to tell the story -- the top and bottom numbers of a fraction.
8/14 A Perfect Fit (Show 307)
The monster Gigabyte returns! The bad guys bring Gigabyte to a remote, Mayan-style pyramid on cybersite Jimaya. The CyberSquad must work their way past a variety of obstacles, and block the rays of the sun before it can energize the metal monster and cause chaos!
8/15 Double Trouble (Show 209)
Hacker invades Shangri-La, imprisons Master Pi, and goes looking for the Good Vibration—the source of peace and happiness on the cybersite—just as the kids and Digit arrive to try to stop him. Math Topic: Growth by Doubling Big Idea: When something grows by doubling, it gets large surprisingly fast, growing ever faster the longer the doubling continues.
8/18 When Penguins Fly (Show 602)
When Hacker traps all the penguins in icy depths, the kids must save them and save their holiday. Math Topic: Estimation / Population Sampling Big Idea: When something is too large to count, you can use a sample to make a close estimate of how much is there.
8/19 Ecohaven Case (Show 301)
Someone has stolen the legendary cyberbeast Choocroca from cybersite EcoHaven, and the only clue is the culprit's footprint. Using forensic science and the principles of "body math," the CyberSquad has to sleuth out who took Choocroca and rescue the massive beast. Math Topic: Body Math: Ratio & Proportion Big Idea: Some parts of a body are proportional to others - the length of one part is always the same multiple of another - so by measuring one part, you can predict the lengths of others, or even the size of the whole creature!
8/20 EcoHaven Ooze (Show 504)
When Hacker discovers that the liquid ooze that feeds the animals of EcoHaven also gives him a super energy boost, he decides to drain the pond and take the ooze home. Math Topic: Inventions 3: Testing with Models Big Idea: Build a working model of your invention to communicate and test your ideas, and make necessary improvements so the invention works the way you want it to.
8/21 Starlight Night (Show 312)
It's Starlight Night, the annual holiday when all the stars in Cyberspace are refreshed for the new year. But Hacker concocts a scheme to darken the stars forever. He sends Buzz and Delete to stop all production of new star circuits and take inventor Archimedes to the Northern Frontier. Math Topic: Finding a Simpler Case Big Idea: If you can spot an easy problem inside a hard one, the simpler solution can help you solve the harder problem.
8/22 A Battle of Equals (Show 125)
Hacker pollutes cyberspace with dangerous cyberstatic by tampering with four satellites designed to keep everything free from cyber-static cling. Math Topic: Balancing Equations Big Idea: You can use an equation - a statement that two different expressions are equal to each other - to find unknown values that make the equation true.
8/25 The Guilty Party (Show 212)
The game is afoot when Hacker returns to Poddleville with a peace offering: a magnificent statue of the mayor. But has someone stolen the key to Hacker's recharger chair? Like Sherlock Holmes and Watson, the kids and Digit set out to sleuth out what's really going on—and the more they investigate, the deeper the mystery gets. Math Topic: Point of View Big Idea: Because what you see depends on your point of view, different people looking at the same objects can see them differently and disagree about what they are seeing.
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8/27 The Wedding Scammer (Show 211)
Hacker agrees to marry the Wicked Witch—on live TV in front of all of Cyberspace—because she has convinced him that she is really the long-lost daughter of a powerful king. Can the kids think their way through an intricate series of puzzles to free the real daughter before Hacker and Wicked say "I do"? Al Roker guest stars as reporter Sam Vander Rom. Math Topic: Problem Solving Big Idea: If you can spot an easy problem inside a hard one, the simpler solution can help you solve the harder problem.
8/28 Model Behavior (Show 122)
The King and his subjects build a “skywall” to keep the Hacker out of his kingdom. But the Hacker cracks it. How to keep him out? The answer is complicated, so the kids make a model in order to see it in simpler terms. Math Topic: Using Models Big Idea: Make a model - a simplified version of something complicated - and you can easily and safely understand how it works.
8/29 A Piece Of The Action (Show 304)
Digit disappears while visiting his friends the Scritters, so Motherboard sends Matt, Jackie, and Inez to investigate. They discover that Hacker is gathering magnetite to fill up a rocket capable of erasing all of Motherboard's memory disks. Can they stop him before he gathers enough magnetite to launch the rocket? Math Topic: Percent Big Idea: When you have fractions with different denominators, you can compare them easily if you represent them as percents - parts of a hundred.
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Reading Rainbow
Airs M-F from 2:00-2:30 p.m.
5/28 Boxes for Katje (Show 1603)
A charitable effort begins when a girl send a care package to Holland during World War II.
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