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What better way to teach simple addition and subtraction than with dress-up? Math skills will go great with that pink frilly number hanging in your closet.
Transcript
- 00:00
we see addition and subtraction of one digit numbers a la shmoop
- 00:07
Molly is desperately searching for the perfect homecoming dress [girl in dress store]
- 00:11
Jake the finest boy she ever did see asked her to the dance so this dress [boy asks girl to dance in school corridor]
- 00:15
needs to be as perfect as he is Molly is convinced her dad to come with her to
- 00:20
shop at the mall and to bring his wallet and credit cards [girl asks dad for wallet]
Full Transcript
- 00:23
he's putting his foot down though saying she will try on only seven dresses and
- 00:27
no more molly finds a yellow dress and tosses it and her dad to hold
- 00:31
that's one she's determined to try on as many as she can in as many different
- 00:35
colors as she can Molly squeals as she pulls out a short red dress tossing it
- 00:42
toward her dad he snatches it out of the air two down on a mission
- 00:46
Holly attacks another rack her father struggles to catch the flying dresses
- 00:50
and closely watches the numbers as they add up boom boom boom
- 00:53
with each dress missile dad adds one to the count one of these seven dresses had
- 00:58
better be the one because Dad is getting impatient after what seems like an
- 01:01
eternity Molly comes out in her first dress dad obviously that's not approved
- 01:05
since that one didn't work we can take one away from the possible dresses six
- 01:10
To Go Molly appears in the second dress she
- 01:13
looks like she lost her sheep we're not sure what she was thinking when she
- 01:17
picked this one down to four oh man take another off the dress count still no
- 01:25
good wow we're down to our last option fingers crossed
- 01:28
just like baby bears porridge this one is just right hey if it's good enough
- 01:32
for Dad should be good enough for Jake
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