When Aunt Rosa places her dog, Hector, in Eddie's charge and Hector wanders off, Eddie is in a panic. While his friend Johnny searches, Eddie goes to school, where Miss Toliver is teaching a lesson on distance, time and speed. When class is over. Johnny and Eddie find themselves racing against Manhattan traffic to save Hector, while viewers find out from professionals with the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority just what it takes to move millions of people around the city every day. With some help from an eager subway guard and Hector's favorite hot dog vendor, Gus, Eddie and Johnny get on the right track. But in the final stretch, rescuing the dog depends on an understanding of distance, time and speed.
Eddie had always dreamed of being in the dugout with the New York Yankees, but he never imagined that the trail that would lead him there would start with Miss Toliver's lesson on statistics. Eddie decides to apply his new found knowledge to boost hot dog sales for his friend Gus, who presents Eddie with a batting glove left by none other than the Yankees' Wade Boggs. Aunt Rosa believes that the glove may just be what the batter needs to get out of his slump, and earns a chance to give it to him when she outsmarts a slick sports radio personality to win admission to the Yankees' dugout. While viewers go behind the scoreboard at Yankee stadium to meet the people who make careers out of baseball statistics, Aunt Rosa and Eddie try to stage a ninth-inning recovery for their losing team.
Tue, Sep 30, 1997
After Miss Toliver's lesson on circles, Eddie's homework assignment is to invent a machine. His friends Vincent and Tony have their own ideas, while Johnny extols the virtues of the simple bicycle. But finally Eddie gets his own inspiration: He's going to solve his vegetable problem. While viewers meet designers and product managers at GT Bicycles and American Honda, Eddie gets to work on the "Vegie-Stash-O-Matic." He even comes up with an infomercial to sell it, featuring frenetic salesman "Lonnie". Eddie's idea may or may not work, but either way, viewers will learn a lot about the practical uses of geometry.
Tue, Sep 30, 1997
The math topic is decimals, the subject is money, and Eddie once again finds himself in the middle as he and his friend Vincent help a Secret Service Agent track down a counterfeiting ring. Eddie also consults with people whose job it is to create, safeguard, and trade our money supply, and learns something about foreign money from his Aunt Rosa and his friend Johnny. Things are not always what they seem, but Eddie realizes that if he uses his head---and what he learned in Miss Toliver's lesson---he can figure out the true value of a peso, a ruble or a questionable $100 bill.
Apr 2000
Aunt Rosa needs a lot of help with her new apartment, but the last thing she expects is that she'll get it from her dog, Hector. But that's what happens when Hector displays true talent and is cast for a commercial by an eccentric Italian director (Robert Picardo). Producing the commercial turns out to be a little more adventurous than anyone expected, but the biggest surprise is the amount of math used by interior decorators and people who design and make the sets and models for "Star Trek." A surprise, that is, to everyone but Miss Toliver, whose lesson on apartment architecture really "sets the stage" for this episode.
Tue, Sep 30, 1997
It's December at PS 72, and to Eddoe that means just one thing: getting ready for his big part in the annual holiday concert. It's just one note, but it has to be perfect, and Eddie's practice sessions with his school music teacher haven't been going too well. Eddie tries to get some tips as he watches his sister, Dee, prepare for a singing solo, his Aunt Rosa practice for her debut with the Hudson String Quartet, and his friend Vincent jamming with his jazz band. We even meet some professional musicians and composers, and find out how the theme for a movie like "Space Jam" gets created. All of this advice is useful, but, as it turns out, it is Miss Toliver's lesson on patterns that finally puts Eddie on the right track.
Tue, Sep 30, 1997
Manhattan has millions of people, and they use lots and lots of water. But what if that supply were cut off, just for one day? It's that thought that launches Eddie on a creative essay on the consequences of no water. Certainly it would create lots of problems for Eddie's Aunt Rosa and his friends Vincent and Johnny. What's worse. it would be a really "bad hair day", especially for the roving reporter (Nancy Glass) who is covering the story. Miss Toliver, of course, would see it as a wonderful teaching opportunity for a lesson on volume measurement. But it would also give Eddie a chance to meet the people who build water tanks, reservoirs, and huge underground tunnels to supply water to the city of New York, making sure that the only way Manhattan will ever run dry is in Eddie's imagination.
Eddie would do almost anything for his little sister Dee, but this time his Mom's request goes too far. Eddie is to buy doll clothes for Dee's birthday. Though he learns a lot in Miss Toliver's lesson on clothing combinations and the counting principle, and gets the inside scoop from Mattel toy designers, Eddie still doesn't want the job, and neither does his friend Johnny. So, naturally, he recruits Vincent. Unfortunately, the result is not something he would have predicted...even with the counting principle. Only with the help of a salesperson wise to the ways of Barbie (Amy Jo Johnson) does Eddie have a chance of sorting things out.