Into the Teens Numberjacks

# In an ordinary sofa in an ordinary room

# There 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, hide and seek! Hide and seek!

-Yes, calm down!

-I'll hide.

-And I'll seek.

-COUNTS TO TEN QUICKLY

-Hey! That's a bit quick.

It is, isn't it? I've been practising.

-But I haven't had time to hide.

-That's not MY fault.

The rules are count to ten and then start seeking.

But you must start slowly.

But I'm in a fast mood today. I can't do slow.

But you must do it slowly, like this.

One...

two...

-three...

-SHE YAWNS

four...

five...

-six...

-SHE HUMS

seven...

eight...

nine...

Oh, are you all right?

No, I am not! I can't count THAT slowly.

I'd fall asleep before I got to one.

All right then. All right.

-If you can't count slowly, count more numbers.

-More numbers?

Count to ten and keep on going.

OK. COUNTS TO TEN QUICKLY

..11...

12...

16...

14...

No, no, no.

You're supposed to be hiding!

And you're supposed to be counting properly past ten, like this.

11...12...13...

14...15...16...

..17...18...

19...20.

Three? Three!

I'M the one who's supposed to be hiding.

Three!

Your slow counting has made me go bonkers!

Aaargh!

That's better.

As I was saying...11...

WHIRRING Thank heavens for that. Come on!

12...13...

-What's going on?

-17...18...

Agent 33 here. Things are going wrong!

But not for long!

-This boy on the beach...

-Hang on, I'll put it on screen.

-..He had one sandcastle.

-Very nice.

And then suddenly he had lots more. One, two, three, four, five more.

Then another five more. ..Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

-And with the one he already had, that makes...

-11!

So instead of one sandcastle, he has 11 sandcastles all over him.

-Right, we need to send someone out there.

-Thanks!

-Four's been doing some useful counting today.

-Have I?

Looks like it's Number Four.

# 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! #

ALARM SOUNDS

Keep practising the counting, Four.

OK. 11...

-'12...'

-Checking the room's clear.

Only Jasper. He's not bothered.

-Stand by, Four.

-13...14...

And off you go!

ALL: Four, three, two, one, zero!

Need a four to land on.

Found a four.

-'OK, Four?'.

-Yes, I'm OK.

Good luck, Four.

I'm looking for anything strange.

And I think I've seen something strange.

-I know who that is.

-So do I. The Numbertaker.

-Aaargh!

We need some info on the Numbertaker.

# Numbertaker, Numbertaker, have you seen the Numbertaker

# Taking all the numbers he can see

# Picking, nicking, getting, netting

# He's as mean a Numbertaker as can be

# With his number sucker-upper, he's a number mucker-upper

# He's as mean a Numbertaker as can be. #

-What's the Numbertaker up to?

-I don't know but I bet it is mean.

I can see the Numbertaker.

-He's written a three.

-He's bad, writing on the wall.

He's writing some more.

-He's written a one in front of the three.

-Why?

There's five more. And another five. That's ten...

And the other 3 make 13.

13 candyflosses, yummy!

Somehow I don't think it will be good.

-Oh no!

-Her mum is going to be angry.

What's going on here? What IS the Numbertaker up to?

The Numbertaker is a Number MAKER today.

He made the number 3 into 13 by putting a 1 in front of it.

That's amazing.

Just putting a one in front makes it ten more.

3 becomes 13. Too big a number to handle.

That's how he made extra sandcastles.

I found some extra shots of what happened.

It's the Numbertaker MAKING numbers.

One sandcastle...

and a one in front makes it ten more?

Which is 11.

Just putting a one in front makes it ten more.

If the Numbertaker keeps putting a one in front of numbers,

anything could happen.

A racing car with four wheels may become a car with 14 wheels!

Ten more wheels... Ten becomes 14!

CRASH!

A glove with four fingers and a thumb, five digits, may get bigger.

A glove for ten extra digits, making 15 digits!

And a crab with six legs will get ten more legs, making it 16 legs!

Far too many.

That Numbertaker must be stopped.

The Numbertaker's up to his tricks again.

-What's he up to now?

-She's got one sunshade.

She's got ten more! 11!

We've got to stop this.

Any ideas? How do we get things to the number they were before?

The Numbertaker put one in front to make the numbers bigger.

We've got to get rid of the one - that means ten more.

If it's 14, get rid of the one in front and it becomes four again.

I'll get the Brain Gain going.

We're sending Brain Gain to sort things out.

# Brain Gain, Brain Gain, to sort the problem use our brain

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

Getting brain power now. Brain Gain!

Rub out the one - that means ten more.

Rub out the one that means ten more.

11. 11 goes back to one.

There's 13.

Get rid of the one and make it three.

This is good. We'll sort the Numbertaker.

We need more Brain Gain though.

-You got it. One! One!

-What did you say, Three?

I said one! Oh no! I should've said rub out the one.

You might've made an extra one.

Oh! That's weird.

Careful, that Brain Gain might turn a number into ten more.

-Wooooh! Aaaah!

-Four, what's up?

Wow-eeee!

That's not four any more.

That's 14. A one next to a four... means I'm 14. I'm so grown up!

Four, we've got Brain Gain work to do.

Yeah, hang on a minute. I'm 14, a teenager.

-Nearly a grown-up.

-Four! We've got work to do.

Wait a minute, I've got things to do. Call me Mr Cool, yeah.

Oh no! Teenagers are a bit wild sometimes.

I'm not Four, I'm 14, the coolest dude you've ever seen.

We've got to get Four back to normal.

We've got to get him back to being Four.

I'll send the proper Brain Gain this time to turn 14 back to four.

Rub out the one that means ten more.

14 get rid of one is four again.

-Yeah, watch 14 go!

-Wait till he stops.

-Yeah!

Get rid of the one that's making four into 14.

Woah! Aaaah!

-I'm Four again.

-Good.

-It was fun.

But you've got work that a teenager couldn't handle.

He's too busy singing.

Ok then, let's get rid of those ones.

11 sunshades back to one.

Now sort that Numbertaker.

Er, which one?

That funny Brain Gain you sent through has turned one Numbertaker

into 11 Numbertakers.

They don't like each other.

They're going to suck each other up!

They're disappearing!

ALL: Hurray!

Done it. Come back now, Four.

All clear for landing.

ALL: One, two, three, four!

-Great work, Four.

-Thanks. It was fun being 14.

-It was fun watching the Numbertakers disappear.

-We have it on screen.

One sand castle, 11 sand castles.

Three, one in front, that's 13.

Woah! That Numbertaker.

Making everything ten more than before.

Then Four was ten more. 14!

Oh my word.

-Too many Numbertakers. Going...

-Going...

-Gone!

-OK, One, you come up right next to me. And now we're 13.

-Yeah.

Oh yeah! You must stay next to me or I can't be a teenager.

-Oh, hi.

-Hi.

Say it. BOTH: 13.

-That's good.

-If one was in front of seven, or eight, or nine,

I wonder what numbers that would make.

Find out and call the Numberjacks.

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# The Numberjacks are on their way

# The Numberjacks are on their way. #