Music plays)

An animated clip shows a big orange X on a blue background. It explodes and letters and numbers come out of it in all directions and float around.

Mathemagician Eric appears on screen. He’s in his mid-twenties. He has short dark brown hair and a beard. He wears a red T-shirt with the show’s logo, blue jeans and red Tennis shoes.

The screen turns red and the logo of the show appears next. It reads "MathXplosion." Meanwhile, cones, cubes and dices float around it.

Kids voices sing a song with lyrics that go
WHAT A HIT
IT'S NOT A TRICK
IT'S MATHXPLOSION
JUST FOR YOU
COOL AND NEW
MATHXPLOSION!

The episode starts with Eric standing in a workroom cutting from a paper sheet. The screen in the back shows leaves from a plant.

Eric says HEY!
DID YOU KNOW THAT
MATH IS EVERYWHERE?
DON'T LOOK
NOW, BUT -
OKAY, I TAKE
IT BACK.
DO LOOK NOW!
IT'S ALL AROUND YOU.
WHEREVER YOU
ARE IN THE WORLD,
YOU ARE SURROUNDED
BY MATH.
MATH IS MORE THAN
FORMULAS AND NUMBERS.
WE CAN USE IT TO SEE
MANY SHAPES AND PATTERNS
IN STRUCTURES
IN NATURE.

He shows a series of objects such as pine cones found in nature.

He continues
LET'S GO FOR A WALK
AND LOOK AT THE WORLD
THROUGH OUR
MATH GLASSES.
WE'LL SEE MATH IN
SURPRISING PLACES.

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Next, he looks around and says WHERE ARE MY
MATH GLASS...

He folds and rolls a red paper sheet. It turns into a cylinder. He turns it upside down and magically glasses come out of it.

He puts them on and says AH.
HMM.
AH HA HA!
YEAH!
LET'S GO.

(music plays)

Next, Eric walks down a park. He spots a beehive nearby. It’s full of buzzing bees.

He says THERE MUST BE A BEEHIVE
AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE.
OH!
FROM THE OUTSIDE, A
BEEHIVE IS JUST A PLACE
WHERE BEES LIVE
AND MAKE HONEY.
BUT LOOKING THROUGH YOUR
SPECIAL MATH GLASSES WILL
HELP YOU SEE THAT A
BEEHIVE IS VERY STRONG
BECAUSE OF ITS
STRUCTURE AND DESIGN.

The screen shows a picture that offers a close up to a honeycomb. A bee stands in the middle of it.

Eric says LOOK, THERE ARE NO
SPACES BETWEEN
THE HONEYCOMB
CELLS IN THE GRID.
CAN YOU SEE THE
REPEATING PATTERNS HERE?
EACH CELL IS A HEXAGON,
WHICH MEANS IT HAS
SIX SIDES.
THE REPEATING PATTERN
IS CALLED A HEXAGONAL
TESSELLATION.

The animated clip traces hexagons over the natural structure of the honeycomb.

Eric continues
GREAT NAME!
HEXAGONAL TESSELLATION!

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Next, he moves forward and finds a pinecone. On the other hand he holds a pineapple.

He picks it up and says WHOA!
NOW, THAT'S A PINECONE!
THE SCALES ON PINECONES AND
PINEAPPLES ARE ARRANGED
IN ROWS OF...

A caption on screen reads "5, 8, 12 and 21." Next, it changes to "Fibonacci sequence."

Eric continues
THESE NUMBERS ARE PART
OF A WELL-KNOWN SEQUENCE
CALLED THE...
THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE
CAN BE FOUND THROUGHOUT
ALL OF NATURE.

A new clip shows pictures of pine cones with green lines that evidentiate the sequence.

Eric says IT ALSO HAS A
GREAT NAME.
SAY IT WITH
ME, GUYS.
SHAPES, NUMBERS,
PATTERNS.
ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW
MUCH MATH WE CAN FIND
IN NATURE?

(music plays)

Eric draws a circle and colours it inside. He taps on it and a new clip plays. The video shows pictures of insects and plants with complex structures that include geometrical shapes.

Eric says EVERY DAY, WE CAN USE
MATH TO EXPLAIN HOW
NATURE GETS MANY
THINGS DONE.
THERE'S MATH IN THE
STRUCTURE OF A BEEHIVE,
IN THE NUMBER OF
PETALS ON A SUNFLOWER,
IN THE SIX POINTS
OF A SNOWFLAKE,
IN REFLECTIONS
ON THE WATER,
IN OCTAGONS IN
SPIDER WEBS,
IN THE SIMILARITY
OF FERN FRONDS,
IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE
SCALES ON A PINECONE...

Eric appears back in the workroom.

He says SO, TAKE A WALK IN YOUR
NEIGHBOURHOOD TO SEE
MATH IN ACTION
ALL AROUND YOU.
AND YOU WON'T NEED SPECIAL
MATH GLASSES TO DO IT.
THE WORLD AROUND US:
IT'S NOT MAGIC.
IT'S MATH.

A big explosion brings the show’s logo back on the screen.

(music plays)

The end credits roll.

Produced by GAPC Entertainment in association with TVOKids.

Copyright GAPC Entertainment (MathPlosion) Incorporated, 2016.