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If you plan on going from zero to hero, you'd better know your way around a number line. Oh wait... maybe that's just if you want to go from zero to sixteen.
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- 00:04
Number line a la Shmoop. Adam Ant an actual ant not the old singer is [Ants on a piece of rope]
- 00:10
having a bad day. He's been captured by a young boy who was trying to fry him with a
- 00:14
magnifying glass. Adam his colonies resident mathematician sketches a quick
- 00:19
number line. Adam is at point zero if he were to move forward he would be moving [Adam walking forwards on the number line]
- 00:23
in a positive direction on the number line and if he were to retreat he'd be
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- 00:27
moving in a negative direction on the number line. [Arrows show the direction of movement]
- 00:29
He starts out going forward because well he's already facing that way, he moves
- 00:34
six units along his number line hoping against hope that he'll be in the clear.
- 00:38
Unfortunately for him his captor has moved the magnifying glass to keep up [The magnifying glass is over the top of Adam]
- 00:41
with him. Adam isn't gonna go down easy though, he returns to point zero and tries this
- 00:46
time moving in the opposite direction, once again he moves six units along the
- 00:50
number line this time negative. He is still exactly the same distance from his [The distance is shown with a rectangle]
- 00:54
starting point as when he advanced in a positive direction and sadly he
- 00:58
experiences a similar result. But Adam is a trooper, he tries going to three on the
- 01:03
number line and negative 7, positive 11, negative four, wherever he goes the jerk [Adam running about on the number line]
- 01:09
with a magnifying glass follows. Just as Adam is about to collapse from
- 01:13
exhaustion however, the boy is finally called by his mother to come in for
- 01:17
dinner. Adam is safe now but he's already
- 01:20
plotting his revenge. Where's PETA when you need them? [Adam looking angry]