Numberblocks

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DESCRIPTION: Colourful Numberblocks run together over grassy hills. Each Numberblock is named by the total number of blocks it contains. 1 is a red square, 2 is orange, 3 is yellow, 4 is green, and 5 is blue. They all have smiling faces.

SINGERS: One, two, three, four, five Numberblocks

DESCRIPTION: Five more Numberblocks jump into the sky together. 6 is purple and polka dotted, 7 is rainbow, 8 is hot pink, 9 is grey, and 10 is grey and red.

SINGERS: Six, seven, eight, nine, ten Numberblocks

DESCRIPTION: Numberblocks combine to create larger Numberblocks.

SINGERS: One and another one is two and another one is

THREE: Me!

SINGERS: That's three!

DESCRIPTION: Numberblocks dance together in the sky and run through a grassy field.

SINGERS: Five, four, three, two, one! It's time for some number fun! You can count on us. We're the Numberblocks!

[Title] “Numberblocks”.

DESCRIPTION: Ten white huts sit in a line on a sandy beach. Each hut is labelled one through ten. Forty works on the tenth hut, and Four stands beside him. A seagull flies by.

[Squawking]

[Hammering]

FORTY: Oh. Hm.

FOUR: Great job, 40! These huts are going to make the Friendly Fours' Beach Day better than ever.

FORTY: Everyone has their own hut. I'm ten fours and this is the tenth beach hut. So it must be mine.

DESCRIPTION: Forty knocks on the tenth hut’s door. The number “40” appears on the door. Four runs to the first hut.

[Knocking]

FORTY: 40!

[Giggling]

DESCRIPTION: Four knocks on the first hut. The number “4” appears on the door.

FOUR: And I'm the first of the Friendly Fours. So, the first hut is for me. Four!

[Giggling]

[Yawning]

FORTY: I'm exhausted after all that. Times for 40 winks, a nice nap.

[Sighing]

DESCRIPTION: Forty goes into his hut.

[Snoring]

FOUR: But who gets the other huts? I'm sure I can figure it out.

DESCRIPTION: Near the water, a gold mirror stands in the sand. A seagull is perched on the top of the mirror. Four smiles and walks over to the mirror.

[Squawking]

FOUR: Although, I could always use some help.

[Humming]

DESCRIPTION: Four looks in the mirror, and a second Four jumps out. The two Fours combine and create Eight.

FOUR: Two fours are…

EIGHT: Octoblock to the rescue!

DESCRIPTION: Eight has eight octopus arms.

EIGHT: Hut number two for you-know-who.

DESCRIPTION: Eight knocks on the second hut. The number “8” appears on the door.

[Knocking]

EIGHT: Eight! But who gets the others?

[Gasping]

EIGHT: I know!

DESCRIPTION: Eight copies himself in the mirror. The two Eights combine and create Sixteen.

SIXTEEN: You know what 16 is!

DESCRIPTION: Sixteen separates into four Fours, who wear hats and stand on top of each other.

FOURS [singing]: Four fours

DESCRIPTION: The four Fours combine to create Sixteen.

[Giggling]

SIXTEEN: Which means I get the fourth hut!

DESCRIPTION: Sixteen knocks on the fourth hut. The number “16” appears on the door.

[Knocking]

SIXTEEN: 16! Four, eight, a gap, then me. Who are my neighbours?

DESCRIPTION: Sixteen separates into a Four and a Twelve.

FOUR: Hello, 12. You need a hut. Now, 12 is greater than eight, but less than 16.

TWELVE: So, I should be somewhere in between. There! Hut number three. Three fours are 12.

DESCRIPTION: Twelve knocks on the third hut, where the number “12” appears. Just then, Twenty approaches Four and Twelve. Twenty has a top hat and a cane.

TWENTY: Ah! Here comes 20! Which hut's mine? I'm two 10s or, switch, four fives.

FOUR: Wait! If you're four fives, you're also five fours. You get the fifth hut!

DESCRIPTION: Twenty knocks on the fifth hut, and the number “20” appears.

[Knocking]

TWENTY: Hut 20.

FOUR: That's the first five huts sorted.

FOUR [singing]: Four, eight, 12, 16, 20

TWENTY: But who gets the next one?

FOUR: Whoever is four more than you.

DESCRIPTION: Four jumps onto Twenty, and creates Twenty-four.

FOUR: Hup!

[Giggling]

TWELVE: 24! Welcome to the Friendly Fours Beach Day. This hut must be yours.

DESCRIPTION: Twenty-four knocks on the sixth hut, and the number “24” appears.

[Knocking]

TWENTY- FOUR: Super duper! 24!

DESCRIPTION: Twelve looks at the remaining three huts.

TWELVE: So who gets those? Maybe four can help.

DESCRIPTION: Twelve separates into Four and Eight.

FOUR: We already have our huts, eight. So…

DESCRIPTION: Eight copies himself in the mirror, and combines to create Sixteen.

EIGHT: I'm two fours.

SIXTEEN: Double up! So I'm four fours.

DESCRIPTION: Sixteen copies herself in the mirror, and combines to create Thirty-two.

BOTH: Double up!

THIRTY-TWO: And I'm eight fours.

FOUR: 32! So you get hut eight here.

DESCRIPTION: Thirty-two knocks on the eighth hut, and the number “32” appears on the door.

[Knocking]

THIRTY-TWO: 32!

TWENTY-FOUR: Nobody's in hut seven yet. Ah, I wonder who our neighbour is.

THIRTY-TWO: It'll be whoever is four more than you and four less than me.

[Gasping]

DESCRIPTION: Twenty-four and Four rush over to the mirror. Four copies himself and combines with Twenty-four to create Twenty-eight.

FOUR: 24 more than me is...

TWENTY-EIGHT: 28!

THIRTY-TWO: Good to see you, neighbour! Grab a hut!

DESCRIPTION: Twenty-eight knocks on the seventh hut, and the number “28” appears on the door.

[Knocking]

TWENTY-EIGHT: 28!

DESCRIPTION: Just then, Forty comes out of his hut.

[Yawning]

FOUR: 40! Look at the huts! We've got...

ALL [singing]: Four, eight, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32

FORTY: But who's next door to me?

THIRTY-TWO: It'll be whoever is four less than you.

DESCRIPTION: Forty separates into Four and Thirty-six.

FOUR: 36! There's only one hut left. Hut number nine. Is that right?

THIRTY-SIX: You tell me. I'm a big square made of squares.

DESCRIPTION: Thirty-six separates into four groups of Nine.

ALL: And if we can be four nines, we can also be…

DESCRIPTION: Thirty-six separates into nine groups of Four.

ALL: Nine fours.

DESCRIPTION: The fours come together to create Thirty-six.

FOUR: You are in the right place!

DESCRIPTION: Thirty-six knocks on the ninth hut, and the number “36” appears on the door.

[Knocking]

THIRTY-SIX: 36!

DESCRIPTION: Four and Thirty-six combine into Forty.

FORTY: Now we've got our beach huts, we just need the rest of the Friendly fours.

DESCRIPTION: Suddenly, all of the Friendly Fours run down the beach and stand in front of their huts.

[Rumbling]

[All clamouring]

ALL [singing]: Four, eight, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40

THIRTY-TWO: Now, who's for a sand-castle competition?

[All cheering]

[Upbeat music]

[End credits] “Head Writers: Ciaran Murtagh & Andrew Barnett Jones. Senior Maths Consultant: Dr. Debbie Morgan. Producer for Alphablocks ltd. Divya Sachdeva–Malde. Production Assistant: Priyanka Patel. Storyboard Artist: Malachi James. Voices: Nneka Okoye, David Carling, Teresa Gallagher, Beth Chalmers, David Holt, Marcel McCalla. Production Manager: Zoe Kerswell. Production Assistant: Chiara Cannata. Creator: Joe Elliot. Director: Will Lloyd–Cook. Alphablocks. BBC.