Tiling With Style

Flo finishes the design and the passengers set to work after a tea break. With all the tiles and squares though it's difficult to see which goes where. They decide to number the tiles and the squares to make it easier to match them up, but the passengers have trouble writing their numbers. The teens in particular are quite hard, but when they have practiced the design is much easier to put together, but the Snake, who is upside down, gets confused between eighteen and eighty-one.

The sixty Number Crew programmes bring maths to life for 5 to 7 year olds, providing an entertaining and imaginative world for children to enjoy and explore maths. The action takes place aboard an unusual cruise ship, the SS Mathematical, where the human crew do their best to look after a collection of animal passengers.

In each programme the crew encounter a mathematical problem. Viewers are encouraged to join the Number Crew in learning the mental strategies and skills they need to solve the problem. A rich mixture of 3-D and 2-D animation, story, song, spectacular studio sequences and real life images combine to make a very successful and popular series.