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Math 5: Ruler Renegades 8 Views
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We would strongly advise against getting someone a maggot farm for their birthday, but if you insist, we'll at least help you wrap it correctly.
Transcript
- 00:02
[Dino and Coop singing]
- 00:14
Aiden has been racking his brain for weeks, trying to think of something to get his sister [Aiden looking confused whilst thinking about presents]
- 00:18
for her birthday.
- 00:19
At last, he’s figured out the perfect thing...
- 00:20
A maggot farm...
Full Transcript
- 00:22
A bunch of maggot covered rotten food stuffed into a rectangular prism. [Maggots walking over rotten food]
- 00:26
What’s not to love?
- 00:27
Aiden is afraid to lift the farm to wrap it, not wanting to disturb the precious ecosystem
- 00:32
he has created inside.
- 00:33
So he decides to cut out rectangles to match the area of each face of the rectangular prism
- 00:38
the farm is enclosed in.
- 00:39
The left and right sides are super easy.
- 00:42
Aiden’s trusty ruler tells him that they’re each 6 inches wide and 8 inches tall.
- 00:46
So Aiden measures and cuts the two 6 by 8-inch pieces of wrapping paper and wraps them to [Aiden uses the ruler to measure and the wrapping paper is stuck to the side]
- 00:51
the sides of the farm.
- 00:53
Piece of cake…
- 00:54
But…uh oh…problem alert…
- 00:56
Aiden runs into trouble when he measures the front and back faces of the prism.
- 00:59
The measurements aren’t whole numbers.
- 01:01
How is he supposed to measure and cut something that isn't a whole inch?
- 01:05
What do these mysterious little lines on the ruler even mean?
- 01:08
Aiden is completely freaking out.
- 01:10
He’s sweating bullets, the maggots are sweating…everything is sweaty. [Aiden looking worried and sweating]
- 01:14
How could his trusty ruler have betrayed him like this!?
- 01:17
Can’t anyone help him?
- 01:19
Just then, in burst of smoke and lightning, the Ruler Renegades appear. [People in colorful costumes holding rulers appear after an explosion]
- 01:22
They tell Aiden that they travel the universe helping all those in measurement need.
- 01:26
They heard his call across space and time and are here to answer all his questions.
- 01:31
Aiden's like, "normally, I'd say you guys are the most pointless super heros ever, but…I'm
- 01:35
kinda glad you're here.
- 01:36
I'm getting way too sweaty."
- 01:38
The Renegades don't take offense, and tell Aiden that every inch is broken into 16 parts. [Renegades explaining next to a blackboard]
- 01:42
So each of those little lines represents 1/16 of an inch.
- 01:46
But they tell him not to sweat the teeny tiny lines right now
- 01:48
and...
- 01:49
They tell him to zero in on the lines at 1/4 and 1/12, which are a little taller…
- 01:53
And the 1/8 line in the middle of the inch is taller still.
- 01:56
They tell Aiden that he should just measure the front and back to the nearest 1/4 or 1/8
- 02:01
of an inch.
- 02:02
Aiden does and sees that the front and back are both 12 and 1/8 inches wide. [Aiden using the ruler]
- 02:06
Boom.
- 02:07
Now Aiden knows how to cut the wrapping paper.
- 02:09
Not so fast…the Ruler Renegades tell him.
- 02:11
While they’re here, they have to also teach him how convert inches to feet.
- 02:14
Aiden isn’t sure why that matters to him right now, but the Renegades say it doesn’t [Aiden looking confused]
- 02:17
matter.
- 02:18
They have to do it.
- 02:19
It’s in their contract.
- 02:20
The Renegades tell Aiden it’s easy to convert inches to feet.
- 02:22
There’s 12 inches in a foot.
- 02:23
All he has to do is put the number of inches over 12.
- 02:25
So if we wanted to convert say 18 inches into feet, we’d put 18 over 12.
- 02:31
If we reduce that fraction like this…
- 02:33
It comes to 1 and 6/12
- 02:35
And if we reduce it more like this…
- 02:39
It comes to 1 and 1/2.
- 02:41
So 18 inches equals 1 and 1/2 feet.
- 02:44
Their job complete, the Ruler Renegades disappear in a ball of flame. [After an explosion the Renegades vanish]
- 02:47
And Aiden can finally finish cutting out the wrapping paper.
- 02:49
Everything is great until he decides to wrap the bottom and turns the farm over onto the [Aiden flips over the farm and drops it]
- 02:53
ground.
- 02:54
So, ultimately, it’s a bad day for Aiden, but his sister’s birthday may have been saved. [Maggot crawling towards the birthday cake]
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