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Functions

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to learning algebra, explaining how to use functions, looking at inverse functions, and exploring lines without ends.

Integer grab bag

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to learning basic math, explaining exponents, rounding, the order of operations, and scientific notation.

Algebra equations

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to learning pre-algebra, reviewing basic algebraic equations, explaining how to solve for variables and absolute values, and introducing graphs.

Fraction basics

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to learning basic math, defining fraction terms, and covering common factors, and how to reduce fractions.

Freaky Friday

A thirteen-year-old girl and her mother gain a much more sympathetic understanding of each other after they somehow switch bodies and lives one Friday the thirteenth.

Broadway, the American musical

This is the first comprehensive documentary series to chronicle the entire razzle-dazzle history of this unique American art form. Each episode chronicles a different era in American history, and features the Broadway shows and songs that defined the period. The series draws on a wealth of feature films, rare television moments, archive news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, intimate first person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in creating the American musical.

Exploration from sea to space

Science educator Bill Nye details the history of developments in exploration, discussing clocks, the compass, submarines, telescopes, X-rays and MRIs, and rockets and the space shuttle. Includes an introduction to a student inventor.

Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory

Piteously poor Charlie Bucket is whisked into a world of wonder and imagination when he opens a rare candy bar and finds one of the coveted five golden tickets that allow him entrance to the mysterious Willie Wonka's candy factory.

Eight below

An American geologist flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base. Once there, he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard and his best friend, Cooper. The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight other valuable friends, a pack of sled dogs he's worked with for years who have rescued him from a number of tight spots. As the three men explore a frozen mountain region, an unexpected accident coupled with a massive storm front forces them to fly to safety, leaving the dogs behind. Shepard is determined to rescue his canine friends, but he has to wait until the weather will allow him to travel back to the mountain. Now, the dogs must struggle against the elements to survive as they attempt to make their way back home.

Harassment

Explores effective ways of dealing with teasing and other forms of harassment through two vignettes: one about a teenage girl harassed by others for her appearance and another in which a softball player is shunned by her team.

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