May the Fours Be With You Numberjacks

# In an ordinary room

# Are extraordinary heroes who are standing by to zoom...

# To wherever they are needed They are speeding out today

# The Numberjacks are on their way

# They will help you with your problems

# They are waiting for your call

# No problem is too big for them

# No problem is too small

# Things may all be going wrong but you can bet it's not for long

# The Numberjacks are on their way

# The Numberjacks are on their way! #

Right, let's see how far I can jump.

Easy jump to start. Hup!

One, good start.

Make it a bit harder. Hup!

Two, and now, for three.

Hup!

Oh yes, getting harder though.

Oh, it's a long way to get to the fourth one.

Oh no, I'll never do it.

-Oh yes, you will.

-Eight!

-I bet I can get you to jump further.

-That will be great.

-But how?

-Well, go on, line up.

-You can jump all the way to eight.

-What?

-You'll jump it because you have TWO jumps.

-Wow!

One jump to four, then another jump to eight.

Two jumps, maybe I can do it.

Here goes. Hup!

-Yes!

-Well done.

-I jumped to eight!

-And you thought you couldn't even jump to four!

-Wow! Thanks!

-No problem.

BEEPING I've got a big mission to go on.

Good luck.

-There's a call coming in.

-I jumped four blocks!

-Great!

-And four more!

-Have to tell us later, Four!

Agent 16 here, it's weird. Things are going wrong!

But not for long!

There's a girl and her umbrella.

Hold on, I'm putting it on screen.

That looks good!

But it's very odd, it's got a life of its own.

That is a weird umbrella.

-And we'd better do something about it!

-Great, thanks.

-Right, who's going?

-Well, Four's been doing some good jumping.

-I have.

-So maybe you're the one to go?

-OK!

# We've got a problem. What shall we do?

# Who's going out there? Who do we choose?

# We've got a problem to explore

-# Who's going out there?

-Number four. #

Checking the room is clear...

All clear.

Stand by, Four.

ALL: Four, three,

two, one, zero!

Scanning for a four to land on.

Found a four.

Whoa!

-Right.

-OK, Four?

-I'm fine.

Ooh!

That buggy is out of control!

CRASH!

We've got to help everybody!

What is it with these things? Is anything the same?

Get them up on screen!

Have you tried counting? Do they have the same number of things?

The umbrella has four dark blue bits and four light blue.

That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

The buggy hasn't got eight things, it's only got four wheels,

two at the front and two at the back.

BOY: Hang on - look closely.

The wheels are double wheels! So it's got four wheels at the front...

GIRL: ..and four wheels at the back.

That's eight wheels altogether!

Two lots of four are eight.

Thanks, agents. We've found what the link is.

They've all got eight things.

-Things with eight are going wrong.

-But why things with eight?

I'm not sure. But I can see something very strange.

-The Shape Japer!

-Ha, ha, ha!

-Very tricky.

-What do we know about the Shape Japer?

Data on screen.

Looks like the Shape Japer is back.

# Shape Japer

# She's really strange, Shape Japer

# She loves to make things change

# Changing faces, changing size

# Changing shapes every single time

# Changing shapes is the Japer's game

# The Shape Japer's back again. #

Why is the Shape Japer interested in eight things?

Look at her corners. The Shape Japer has got eight corners.

Four on top, and four on the bottom.

-Eight corners.

-Eight, bad, eight!

She's being a bad eight and making all the other eights bad.

We really need Numberjack Eight to sort this problem out.

Well, you've only got me. Eight went off on his own mission.

-Then you must solve this, Four.

-OK.

Agent 101 here - we've got more problems!

This man's having trouble, I think it's his coat.

-It's taken over!

-Why is the coat going bad?

Can anyone see anything special about it?

CRASH!

It's the buttons - count them!

One, two, three, four,

-five, six, seven, eight!

-The number that's going wrong!

Eight, bad, eight!

AGENT: There's a lady doing funny things.

-Oh, lady!

-It's her hands!

They're out of control!

What's making her hands go funny?

CRASH!

It's the rings. Look - there are four on one hand,

and four on the other. Eight!

Another problem with eight!

If we don't stop things with eight going wrong, anything could happen!

If you were playing dominoes and you had a double four,

that's eight! It might go mad and spoil the game.

-Toot! Toot!

-Or if you played eight notes,

the instrument might go mad! Or horrible!

TUNELESS TOOTING

Or an octopus with eight legs might jump out of the water

-and chase everyone!

-PEOPLE: Ooh! Ah! Ooh! Argh!

We've got to stop the Shape Japer making problems with eights.

The Shape Japer is making eight bad all the time.

If only we could make eight in a good way.

Four - you can make eight, can't you?

Oh, yes! In the gym, I jumped four and four and made eight.

If your jumping was good then...

It was brilliant!

Then your jumping should be good here.

-Two jumps by four to make a good eight.

-It's worth a try.

-Get the Brain Gain going!

-Bouncing all the way!

Two lots of four to make eight - it might just work!

# Brain gain, brain gain

# To sort the problem use a brain

# The way to get your brains linking up together - joined-up thinking. #

Getting brain power now! Brain gain!

Two lots of four to make a good eight!

-Two lots of four, two lots of four...

-..to make a good eight!

-ZAP!

-Wow!

Sort out those bad eights!

There's the buggy with the eight bad wheels!

Ready, four? You've got to do two lots.

Four...and four!

Yes!

Two lots of four made a good eight!

Sort the rest of the things out now, four.

OK.

Sending more brain gain - two lots of four!

Make those eights good!

Two lots of four make a good eight!

Two lots of four make a good eight.

Two lots of four make a good eight.

Well done, Four, two lots of four make eight every time.

Phew! Glad I practised my jumping!

-We got one more problem eight to deal with.

-Where is it?

-We don't know exactly but it's somewhere here.

-Right.

I'll have a look.

OK, I still don't know what to look out for.

-All we know is it's got something to do with eight.

-Be careful, Four!

I'm going to be careful...

Aagh! It's a spider!

Of course, with eight legs!

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight...

very long legs!

I think spiders are lovely.

I'm not so sure.

-Well, you haven't got to cuddle the spider.

-Oh, good.

-Just jump over it!

-Oh no!

Do you want this spider going bad like all the other things?

-No.

-That's what the Shape Japer wants.

Eight bad! Eight bad!

You've got to sort the spider. Two jumps of four to make a good eight!

Two lots of four make a good eight!

Here goes.

Jumping the spider and back again.

Four and four make eight!

Now that's a lovely spider!

Eight, eight!

But not a lovely Shape Japer!

Four's got one more thing to make good.

Eight bad! Eight bad!

-You can do it, Four.

-Make that Shape Japer into a good eight.

Two lots of four make a good eight.

Get ready.

Four!

-Four!

-And four more...

-Argggh...

-..make eight.

A good eight.

Eight...

Eight...

Good...

-She's being a good eight.

-Done it! Come back now, Four.

All clear for landing.

ALL: One, two, three, four!

Well done, four. You could do it!

Yes.

-Made that Shape Japer good for once.

-We've got it on screen.

The girl had trouble with her umbrella.

And the buggy was going wrong too!

They all have eight things.

And Shape Japer was making all things with eight things go bad!

The man had eight buttons and the lady had eight rings.

-And the spider had eight legs!

-That was a bit scary.

But you did it. You made sure it was a good spider.

And you made the Shape Japer good for once.

-With two good jumps of four.

-Everything sorted.

Now, I'm going to help you just like Eight helped me.

You jump two blocks,

and two more.

TWO GASPS

Yeah!

Well done, two at a time.

I wonder, how many jumps would Two need to get to eight?

Ooh, I don't know. Find out for me.

How many jumps of two would you need to get all the way to eight?

Find out and call the Numberjacks!

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