Ordering Drinks

Fiz and Bradley are delivering drinks and Flo has put numbers on the drinks to make sure the right passengers get the right ones. They deliver the drinks to eighteen, ten, sixteen, then fourteen. When they think about it they realize that they could have delivered them much more quickly if they had put the drinks in order before they started. At the Grand Opening of the Ballroom, Bradley has a number dispenser, starting at one, so that all the passengers can take a number as they arrive and get their drinks served in order. Baby Bunting dashes off with the first twenty-eight tickets but at the last moment Bradley realizes that they can start from twenty-nine and his system will still work. Baby Bunting arrives at the ball with Number Bugs, numbered and in a row. When he's told that he's being very neat he gets the Number Bugs to cause some chaos, which he likes much better.

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.