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Within Mathematics

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Chalkboard at the front of a classroom with the text “Angles.”

Title text reads, “Applying Area to the Real World,” against colorful geometric shapes and lines.

Woman with light brown, curly hair sits in a tan armchair in a studio. A drawing of a brown ant is at the bottom of the screen. Caption. "And we can measure the distance."

Title text reads, “Calculating Area & Perimeter,” against a backdrop of biometric shapes and calculations.

Youth wear blue shirts and carry instruments in a marching band procession. Caption. As we investigate circles.

Color illustration of a baseball game with players all in position. Caption. Male announcer. It's a wonderful afternoon at Geometric Field.

Woman speaks to camera with a braille backdrop. Caption. On the coordinate plane.

Closeup of a train track overgrown with grass as it extends into the distance. Caption. A good example of parallel lines are the rails of a train track.

Irregular geometric object reflected in a glass building is outlined in yellow and superimposed in quadrant 2 of an X, Y axis. Caption. Let's check the coordinates on the reflected image.

Overhead view of a clipboard with the following equations, "A equals 1/2 B times H and A equals Blank. Caption. Which can also be written as the area of a triangle.

Closeup on a person's hand holding the tip of a transparent blue pyramid. Caption. Has 4 triangular sides, and a square base.

Closeup on a stack of 12 colorful cubes. An equation overlayed on top of the image reads, 4 times 3 equals blank. Caption. So there are 4 multiplied by 3 cubes altogether, 12 cubes.

Dry brushed animation of a smiling boy with 1 hand held up to the side. Carnival rides and carnival goers fill the background. Caption. But it's too tall.

2 parallel lines outline grooves between wood planks and are intersected by a diagonal line. The 2 angles formed are labeled, "130 degrees" and "50 degrees." Title card reads, "Summary. Angle relationships." Caption. But they add to 180 degrees.

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Closeup of a black and red chess board with white pieces in the foreground and black pieces in the background. Caption. As we investigate perimeter and area.

Closeup of an open green eye with a purple colored contact lens, black mascara on the eyelashes, and black eyeliner on the top lid. Caption. With several special properties.

Centered, front view of the Taj Mahal. A dashed white line is overlaid down the center, with an arrow and the word "Axis" overlaid and pointing to it. A white rectangle overlay is around one of the pillars on the left. Caption. 1 side is a reflection of the other side.

Simple line drawing of a house on a hill with a roof and 2 windows.

Animation of a rover rolling across a red rocky surface against a red sky. In the center of the frame is a rainbow-colored circular shape. Caption. Here are some more facts about shapes.

Digital illustration of a Christmas tree. Title bars read, "Part 2, section B. Tree diagrams and factorization." Caption. Except they have numbers on them.

Man faces camera and speaks slightly off to 1 side like he is in an interview. Text on image reads, "Easy to remember, and a little bit enjoyable."

Rear view of teenage girl sits at ia control panel in a room filled with equipment monitoring panels with switches, lights and racks from the mid-1900s. A man wearing a hard hat stands between the control panel and equipment panels as he speaks to the girl.

Medium view of a man facing camera like he is giving a lesson as a subject expert. Caption. Either by the lengths of their sides or by their angles.

Man faces and speaks directly to camera like he's lecturing. An overlay formula reads, "Right triangle hypotenuse minus leg theorem over hypotenuse and leg of right triangle."

Man crouches on asphalt pavement. He rests his head on his hand which is propped on his knee. He gazes into the distance like he is thinking. An overlay measurement is labeled as 14 feet.

Seated man faces camera while holding a book in a living room setting. He speaks directly to camera as if he is being interviewed as a subject expert. Caption. As we continue our geometric portrait series.

Star Maths cartoon. Rear view of the heads of a girl and boy looking out of a spacecraft window. They watch hovering spacecrafts drop objects into a large dirt pit below. Caption. This storm has been going on for 3 whole days now.

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Geometric design of a large cat. Caption: (narrator) First, define the surface of the shape geometrically.

Cartoon of Robo, J, 5, a pink robot hovering above a paved outdoor surface looking off at something out of view. Caption. Watch out for the rolling circles.

Person holding a twisted strip of material. Caption: This shape is called a Möbius strip.

Woman with glasses in a blue shirt demonstrates sign language in front of a black curtain. White text in a red box at the bottom of the screen reads, "Exponent slash power."

Closeup of 3 boulders in a row with grass and trees in the background. Caption. During the next few minutes.

Zero the Math Hero wears a tan cowboy hat and blue overalls and holds a pitchfork while standing in a wheat field with tall trees behind it. Caption. See you back at Studio Z, math fans.

Zero the Math Hero walks to the left while smiling and holding a red flag with white writing. Caption. Be right back.

Zero the Math Hero leans forward in front of a dry erase marker drawing of the Eiffel Tower with green hills behind it. Caption. Sometimes it's known as the Cartesian coordinate system.

Zero the Math Hero wears a pirate hat in front of a dry erase marker drawing of a tiny island with a single palm tree. Caption. I also have other tricks in me measure chest.

Zero the Math Hero holds up a tan acoustic guitar in front of a beige background. Caption. I'm sensing that you're not sure you're up for this challenge.

Black rectangle with labels showing the shorter sides are 6 meters in length and the longer sides are 10 meters. Zero the Math Hero stands to the right of it. Caption. For instance, this rectangle's perimeter could have been found.

Zero the Math Hero, a man in black costume with a black cape and mask, holds up his left hand while talking in front of a beige background. Caption. We can think of a point as a specific location.

Zero the Math Hero smiles deviously while holding up what looks like a yellow flower in his right hand. Caption. Sound of laughter.

Scalene right triangle next to Zero the Math Hero. The longest line is labeled, "hypotenuse, C." Caption. Here, we use the variable C to represent its length.

Zero the Math Hero talking in front of a line with 2 arrows and 3 points marked A, B, and C. Green text on screen reads, "Coordinate. The number for a point on a number line." Caption. We're going to find the length of some of these segments here.

Zero the Math Hero talking. A black line with 2 arrows and points on either side marked A and B is above green text that reads, "Segment. A part of a line with 2 endpoints." Caption. We can define a line segment as.

Zero the Math Hero talks while looking to the left of the screen. Caption. Take a look at this right rectangular prism.