Square One Television

Anyone else watch this on PBS as a kid? Made me way ahead of the rest of my class in math up until about 7th or 8th grade. It was a kids learning program in the 80's and maybe early 90s designed to teach kids about algebra, Roman numerals, the concept/implications of infinity, and even had a rap song about Archimedes and Pythagoras!

They had a ton of different "skits".

My favorite by far was "Mathnet", a clear play on the classic TV show Dragnet.

I finally found my favorite episode as a kid:

Another popular one was "Mathman" a play on Pacman, where the main character was inside an arcade game trying to eat the right prime number, or else he'd get eaten by a tornado like digi-baddie known as Mr. Glitch. I always loved watching this because not only was it a fake video game, but that every episode Mathman would get too damn arrogant and fuck up eating the wrong number/multiple/whatever.

Also even had celebs like Weird Al and The Fat Boys perform math related jams:

Anyone else know this show as a kid? Show some love for nerd maths as a kid.

Fuck yes dude! I looooved that show! Watched it all the time -- there was one episode about how you could fit more hot dog buns or sandwiches or something inside a tray if you turned them the right direction, which totally confused me. Also a cheesy Beach Boys-style song about tessellations that was my gateway drug to the Carmen Sandiego quiz show (feat. Rock-a-pelllla!).

Also, this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDMBtQjS1bQ

I enjoyed watching SquareOne TV back in the 80's when it aired... good way to introduce math to kids.

Yeah, watched this in the '80s and early '90s; also 3-2-1 Contact, which I think was a little earlier.

mathman gave me nightmares

Me too, it was kinda creepy!