Spring Cleaning

Everyone is very sad as the iceberg has disappeared with the warm weather. The Tiger, Polar Bear and Bradley are particularly upset even when Bradley offers the Polar Bear his bit of ice he was keeping as a memento. They decide to take their minds off it with some spring cleaning. While the passengers help with the cleaning the children count up their supplies: there are 5 + 3 tomato soups, 25 + 3 carrot soups, but 55 + 3 fish soups. Using these very large numbers seems very hard till they spot the pattern. They see that 15 + 3 fits the pattern too. Down in the stores they have to work with even bigger numbers, 4 + 3, 40 + 30 and 400 + 300. As usual, just when things look like they'll get sorted out Baby Bunting arrives on the scene and chaos returns.

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.