Peg + Cat
2013
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10. The Clown Problem/The Ninja Problem

May 8, 2014
From PBS KIDS: The Clown Problem: Peg and Cat help Mac achieve his dream of being a clown in the circus, by teaching him how funny it can be when things are exactly the wrong size. Primary Learning Goal: Adding 1. Secondary Learning Goal: Size correspondence. The Ninja Problem: Peg and Cat help their young Ninja-wannabe friend Aki find the fifteen missing cherry blossom trees by using Ninja skills and math skills. Primary Learning Goal: Subtraction. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting to 15.
Season 2
Episode 10
From PBS KIDS: The Clown Problem: Peg and Cat help Mac achieve his dream of being a clown in the circus, by teaching him how funny it can be when things are exactly the wrong size. Primary Learning Goal: Adding 1. Secondary Learning Goal: Size correspondence. The Ninja Problem: Peg and Cat help their young Ninja-wannabe friend Aki find the fifteen missing cherry blossom trees by using Ninja skills and math skills. Primary Learning Goal: Subtraction. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting to 15.
Season 2

Season 2

1. The Birthday Cake Problem/The Doohickey Problem

Jan 3, 2014
From PBS KIDS: The Birthday Cake Problem: Peg and Cat make a rockin' birthday cake for Jonah and his friends the Teens, but first they need to figure out how old he is going to be. Primary Learning Goal: The teen numbers. The Doohickey Problem: When their space ship is smashed, Peg and Cat must reassemble its variously shaped parts, and retrieve sixteen stolen doohickeys. Primary Learning Goal: Patterns. Secondary Learning Goal: Shapes, the number 16.

2. The Slop Problem/The Birthday Present Problem

Dec 16, 2013
From PBS KIDS: The Slop Problem: Peg and Cat enlist the Teens to help them figure out how to clean filthy farm animals of various sizes. Primary Learning Goal: More, less. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by fives up to 25. The Birthday Present Problem: Peg and Cat gather 30 rocks from their favorite lands to give Peg's Mom for her 30th birthday. Primary Learning Goal: Counting by fives up to 30. Secondary Learning Goal: Time, using a calendar.

3. The Baby Problem/The Sparkling Sphere Problem

Dec 17, 2013
From PBS KIDS: The Baby Problem: Babysitters Peg and Cat rescue the precocious Baby Fox from the top of his elaborate block tower. Primary Learning Goal: Solid shapes. Secondary Learning Goal: Diagrams. The Sparkling Sphere Problem: Knights of the Round Table Peg and Cat search for the Wizard Ramone, who has floated away in a sparkling sphere. Primary Learning Goal: Rectangular prism and rhombus. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by twos.

4. The Blockette Problem/The Tulip Problem

Jan 24, 2014
From PBS KIDS: The Blockette Problem: When their demanding pal Richard is directing the Radio City Music Hall Blockettes, Peg and Cat find a way to make the set perfectly symmetrical. Primary Learning Goal: Symmetry. Secondary Learning Goal: Associate events with hot and cold temperatures, height. The Tulip Problem: When Neighbor Ladies Connie and Viv have a tiff, Peg and Cat make peace by making sure each has the same number of flowers. Primary Learning Goal: Subtraction, greater than/less than. Secondary Learning Goal: The equals sign.

5. The Mega Mall Problem/The Cleopatra Problem

Feb 17, 2014
From PBS KIDS: The Mega Mall Problem: Peg and Cat search the enormous Mega Mall for the teens so they can all enter the Zebra Guy dance contest. Primary Learning Goal: Attributes of objects. Secondary Learning Goal: Maps. The Cleopatra Problem: When Peg and Cat are playing marbles among the pyramids with Queen Cleopatra, Peg's marble is stolen by a mysterious man with an orange triangular beard. Primary Learning Goal: Using a pan balance to compare weight. Secondary Learning Goal: Triangles.

6. Yet Another Tree Problem/The Romeo and Juliet Problem

Apr 14, 2014
From PBS KIDS: Yet Another Tree Problem: The tables are turned! Peg is stuck up in the tree and Cat must figure out how to get her down... by making a ladder out of found objects. Primary Learning Goal: Up, down. Secondary Learning Goal: Horizontal, vertical. The Romeo and Juliet Problem: Peg and Cat help their poetic pal Romeo reach Juliet's balcony using a series of horizontal and vertical lines. Primary Learning Goal: Horizontal, vertical. Secondary Learning Goal: Parallel.

7. The Arch Villain Problem/The Straight and Narrow Problem

May 5, 2014
From PBS KIDS: The Arch Villain Problem: When the Arch Villain wreaks havoc on the city of Mathtropolis by turning everything into arches, Super Peg and Cat Guy come to the rescue. Primary Learning Goal: Arches, finding arches in other shapes. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting backwards from 9, counting by threes. The Straight and Narrow Problem: Super Peg and Cat Guy trail the Arch Villain, who has given up his arch ways and gone on a rampage with straight and narrow shapes instead. Primary Learning Goal: Understanding straight, narrow, curved. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting sides to determine shapes (rectangles, triangles, squares), counting by tens to 100.

8. The Play Date Problem/The Blabberwocky Problem

May 6, 2014
From PBS KIDS: The Play Date Problem: Peg and Cat must use the power of music, and patterns, to help their friends Beethoven and the Three Bears play together - and make incredible music together. Primary Learning Goal: Patterns. Secondary Learning Goal: Seeing squares as special rectangles. The Blabberwocky Problem: Peg and Cat are back as the Knights of the Round Table to reclaim their friends' missing shapes - and their own Round Table! - from the mysterious 100-headed creature, The Blabberwocky. Primary Learning Goal: Making a drawing as a step in problem solving. Secondary Learning Goal: 3D shapes, 2D shapes.

9. The Perfect Ten Problem/The Long Line Problem

May 7, 2014
From PBS KIDS: The Perfect Ten Problem: Peg and Cat are judging a singing competition in which all performers must get a rating of exactly ten stars. Primary Learning Goal: Adding to 10. Secondary Learning Goal: The number 0. The Long Line Problem: While waiting in a long line, Peg and Cat try to help Richard realize his dream of being first in line for the first time. Primary Learning Goal: Ordinal numbers, using a number line. Secondary Learning Goal: Positional relationships (in front of/behind), counting to 20.

10. The Clown Problem/The Ninja Problem

May 8, 2014
From PBS KIDS: The Clown Problem: Peg and Cat help Mac achieve his dream of being a clown in the circus, by teaching him how funny it can be when things are exactly the wrong size. Primary Learning Goal: Adding 1. Secondary Learning Goal: Size correspondence. The Ninja Problem: Peg and Cat help their young Ninja-wannabe friend Aki find the fifteen missing cherry blossom trees by using Ninja skills and math skills. Primary Learning Goal: Subtraction. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting to 15.

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