Text reads, “TVO Kids Presents”.

Colourful animated numbers, zero to nine, jump in a line then form the title “Wacky Number Songs”.

An upbeat song plays. IT'S THE WACKY WACKY
NUMBER SONGS.
OH YEAH.

A caption reads “With Ava”. Ava, a teenager, wears her long brown hair in two plaits.

Ava says, I FOUND OUT SOMETHING REALLY
COOL ABOUT MATH.
TWO PLUS TWO IS ALWAYS FOUR,
RIGHT?
I MEAN, IT JUST IS.
BUT IN ANCIENT TIMES, THE WAY
PEOPLE DID MATH AND WROTE
NUMBERS WASN'T ALWAYS THE SAME.
STILL, EVERYONE WOULD GET THE
SAME ANSWER TO TWO PLUS TWO,
BECAUSE THE RULES OF MATH ARE
THE SAME, NO MATTER HOW YOU GET THERE.

A star shines in outer space and circles the Earth. Ava is dressed as an explorer.

Ava sings, NUMBERS ARE THE SAME AROUND THE
WORLD, BUT THEY DIDN'T USED TO
BE.
CULTURES WROTE MATH IN THEIR
OWN UNIQUE WAY.
NOT LIKE THE NUMBERS WE USE
TODAY.

Italy is shown on a map.

IF YOU HAD LIVED IN ANCIENT
ROME.
HERE'S HOW YOU'D
WRITE TWENTY-THREE!
ZIG-ZIGGY, EX EX, AYE AYE AYE?

Ava shrugs. Guatemala is shown on the map.

ACROSS THE SEA, THE ANCIENT
MAYAN DISCOVERED ZERO AFTER LOTS
OF TRYIN.
THEY CARVED THEIR NUMBERS INTO
STONE AND HAD A SYSTEM ALL THEIR
OWN.

China is shown on the map.

CHINA HAD MATHEMATICIANS
GALORE.
IT COULD HAVE OPENED ITS OWN
MATH STORE.
BUT THIS ISN'T THE MAIN WAY TO
WRITE NUMBERS ANYMORE.

Ava grins with her hands on her hips.

NOW NUMBERS ARE THE SAME AROUND
THE GLOBE.
ARABIC NUMERALS TOOK OVER THE
WORLD.
ARABIC NUMERALS WE ALL USE
TODAY.
LOOKS LIKE THESE NUMBERS
ARE HERE TO STAY.

UNLESS YOU DISCOVER ANOTHER
WAY!

The song ends.


Ava says, SOMETIMES PEOPLE STILL USE OLDER
KINDS OF NUMBERS, BUT PRETTY
MUCH EVERYONE IN THE WORLD
LEARNS TO USE ARABIC NUMERALS,
JUST LIKE WE DO.

EVEN IF WE SPEAK DIFFERENT
LANGUAGES, WE ALL USE THE SAME
MATH.

SEE YOU NEXT TIME!

End credits read, " TVO Kids. Apartment 11 productions."