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Peg + Cat - The Owl and the Pussy Cat Problem (S1E75)
The Pig will only give Cat the hat he needs to warm his ears, if Peg and Cat will give him “infinity”. So Peg and Cat sail off in search of infinity.
Primary Learning Goal: Infinity
Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by 10’s, more than
| Runtime (min) | 30 |
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| Air Date | 2015-09-08 |
| Genres | Kids, Animation |
| TV Rating | TV-Y |
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Storyline
In this episode of Peg + Cat, Peg and Cat encounter the Pig, who possesses a warm hat that Cat desperately needs. However, the Pig has a peculiar request: he will only part with the hat if Peg and Cat can provide him with 'infinity.' Determined to get the hat, Peg and Cat embark on a whimsical adventure to discover what infinity truly means.
Their journey takes them on a sailboat, where they count by tens and explore the concept of infinity through creative problem-solving. Along the way, they meet various characters who help them understand that infinity is not just a number, but also a way of thinking. This fun and educational adventure culminates in Peg and Cat finding a way to present infinity to the Pig, reinforcing their learning experience.
What Parents Say
Parents will appreciate how this episode of Peg + Cat introduces complex mathematical concepts, such as infinity, in a fun and engaging manner. The combination of storytelling and simple problem-solving encourages children to think critically while enjoying the antics of Peg and Cat. The show fosters a love for math by making it relatable and interactive.
Additionally, the episode emphasizes teamwork and perseverance. Peg and Cat face challenges and setbacks but remain determined to achieve their goal. This aspect of the story teaches kids about resilience and the importance of working together to overcome obstacles, making it a valuable lesson for young viewers.
What Children Can Learn
Children watching this episode will learn about the concept of infinity in a way that is accessible and entertaining. Through Peg and Cat's adventures, kids will grasp that infinity can be visualized and understood through counting and creative thinking. The episode encourages them to explore numbers beyond what they see in their everyday lives.
Moreover, the episode reinforces counting by tens, helping children develop their mathematical skills in a playful context. As Peg and Cat navigate their journey, they demonstrate how to apply counting in practical situations, making math fun and engaging. This approach not only teaches numbers but also sparks curiosity about mathematics.
Lastly, the importance of friendship and collaboration is highlighted throughout the episode. Peg and Cat support each other as they tackle challenges and celebrate their successes, teaching young viewers the value of working together and valuing each other's strengths.
Five Most Asked Questions
| Question | Answer |
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| What does infinity mean in this episode? | In this episode, infinity is presented as a concept that goes beyond numbers. Peg and Cat learn that infinity is not just a large number but represents endlessness. Their journey to find infinity helps viewers understand that it can be visualized and conceptualized in various ways, making it a fun and engaging learning experience. |
| How do Peg and Cat attempt to find infinity? | Peg and Cat embark on a sailing adventure to search for infinity after the Pig challenges them. They count by tens and encounter different characters who assist them in understanding the concept. Their creative approach to problem-solving and teamwork plays a crucial role as they try to conceptualize and present infinity to the Pig. |
| What are the secondary learning goals of this episode? | In addition to exploring infinity, this episode focuses on counting by tens and understanding the concept of 'more than.' As Peg and Cat navigate their adventure, they practice counting and learn to compare quantities, enhancing their mathematical skills while enjoying the story. This dual focus on math concepts makes the episode both educational and entertaining. |
| How does the episode promote teamwork? | Throughout their adventure, Peg and Cat demonstrate the value of teamwork. They rely on each other's strengths and support one another as they tackle challenges. This emphasis on collaboration teaches children the importance of working together to achieve common goals, fostering social skills and reinforcing the idea that two heads are often better than one. |
| What lessons can children take away from Peg and Cat's journey? | Children can learn valuable lessons about perseverance, friendship, and creativity from Peg and Cat's journey. Despite facing challenges, they remain determined to find infinity and help each other along the way. This not only instills a sense of resilience but also encourages kids to think outside the box and approach problems with a positive attitude. |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
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| 1 | 2 | Peg, Cat and Richard must get the 100 chickens away from Big Mouth and back to their spaceship.
Primary Learning Goal: Counting by tens. Secondary Learning Goal: The number 100. |
| 1 | 3 | Peg and Cat show a group of very hungry Pirates how to share tropical fruit fairly.
Primary Learning Goal: Fair sharing. Secondary Learning Goal: Adding within 4. |
| 1 | 4 | When the Pirates are having a sleepover at Peg’s house, they get scared at bedtime. Peg and Cat help the Pirates fall asleep by counting chickens.
Primary Learning Goal: Counting to 20. Secondary Learning Goal: 4 + 1 = 5. |
| 1 | 5 | Peg and Cat bring the Three Bears, the Three Little Pigs, and the Three Billy Goats Gruff together to form a super group: “The Electric Eleven.”
Primary Learning Goal: Adding 1. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting to 11. |
| 1 | 6 | Peg and Cat must attempt a great escape when they think the Giants want to eat them and their 8 fairy tale friends for lunch.
Primary Learning Goal: Combinations that add up to 10. Secondary Learning Goal: Circle. |
| 1 | 9 | When Cat is stuck in a tree, Peg needs to figure out how to get him down using three giant gifts.
Primary Learning Goal: Spatial sense, solving a puzzle. Secondary Learning Goal: Direction, position. |
| 1 | 11 | Peg and Cat sort through the mess in Peg’s room just in time for company to come over and see Cat’s masterpiece, “The Circles.”
Primary Learning Goal: Sorting. Secondary Learning Goal: Shapes. |
| 1 | 12 | Peg the Bold and Brave Sir Cat, Knights of the Round Table, search far and wide to retrieve the Mermaid’s golden pyramids.
Primary Learning Goal: Solid shapes. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by twos. |
| 1 | 13 | Peg and Cat need to sort out recyclables to clean up the park in time for the nursery school’s Halloween Parade.
Primary Learning Goal: Sorting. Secondary Learning Goal: Estimating. |
| 1 | 14 | While trick or treating, Peg and Cat find themselves pursued by a metal monster. Later they teach fair sharing to a “friend” who turns out to be a real tiger!
Primary Learning Goal: Fair Sharing. Secondary Learning Goal: Positional relationships (in front of/behind). |
| 1 | 17 | The 3 Bees will produce honey for Peg and Cat’s super-popular honey cake – but only if Peg and Cat will dance for the Bees in a certain pattern!
Primary Learning Goal: Weight. |
| 1 | 18 | Peg and Cat coach a team of skiing penguins, who would have a shot at the Olympic gold medal if only they knew “over”, “under”, and “in between.”
Primary Learning Goal: Over, under, in between. Secondary Learning Goal: Balance. |
| 1 | 19 | Peg and Cat rebuild their homemade race car, “Hot Buttered Lightnin’”, to compete in the Talla-peg-a 20 race.
Primary Learning Goal: More than, less than. Secondary Learning Goal: Solid shapes. |
| 1 | 21 | Peg and Cat enlist the Teens to help them figure out how to clean filthy farm animals of various sizes.
Primary Learning Goal: More, less. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by fives up to 25. |
| 1 | 24 | Knights of the Round Table Peg and Cat search for the Wizard Ramone, who has floated away in a sparkling sphere.
Primary Learning Goal: Rectangular prism and rhombus. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by twos. |
| 1 | 28 | When Neighbor Ladies Connie and Viv have a tiff, Peg and Cat make peace by making sure each has the same number of flowers.
Primary Learning Goal: Subtraction, greater than/less than. Secondary Learning Goal: The equals sign. |
| 1 | 29 | Peg and Cat search the enormous Mega Mall for the teens so they can all enter the Zebra Guy dance contest.
Primary Learning Goal: Attributes of objects. Secondary Learning Goal: Maps. |
| 1 | 31 | The tables are turned! Peg is stuck up in the tree and Cat must figure out how to get her down… by making a ladder out of found objects.
Primary Learning Goal: Up, down. Secondary Learning Goal: Horizontal, vertical. |
| 1 | 32 | Peg and Cat help their poetic pal Romeo reach Juliet’s balcony using a series of horizontal and vertical lines.
Primary Learning Goal: Horizontal, vertical. Secondary Learning Goal: Parallel. |
| 1 | 34 | Super Peg and Cat Guy trail the Arch Villain, who has given up his arch ways and gone on a rampage with straight and narrow shapes instead.
Primary Learning Goal: Understanding straight, narrow, curved. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting sides to determine shapes (rectangles, triangles, squares), counting by tens to 100. |
| 1 | 35 | Peg and Cat must use the power of music, and patterns, to help their friends Beethoven and the Three Bears play together – and make incredible music together.
Primary Learning Goal: Patterns Secondary Learning Goal: Seeing squares as special rectangles |
| 1 | 37 | Peg and Cat are judging a singing competition in which all performers must get a rating of exactly ten stars.
Primary Learning Goal: Adding to 10. Secondary Learning Goal: The number 0. |
| 1 | 38 | While waiting in a long line, Peg and Cat try to help Richard realize his dream of being first in line for the first time.
Primary Learning Goal: Ordinal numbers, using a number line. Secondary Learning Goal: Positional relationships (in front of/behind), counting to 20. |
| 1 | 40 | Peg and Cat help their young Ninja-wannabe friend Aki find the fifteen missing cherry blossom trees by using Ninja skills and math skills.
Primary Learning Goal: Subtraction
Secondary Learning Goal: Counting to 15 |
| 1 | 41 | Peg and Cat use a map to help George Washington and his team cross the Delaware River.
Primary Learning Goal: Mapping / position
Secondary Learning Goal: Balance / number recognition |
| 1 | 42 | Peg and Cat agree to face Bad Jack in a show down at high noon. But they have no idea when noon is!
Primary Learning Goal: Associating activities with time of day
Secondary Learning Goal: Making predictions |
| 1 | 44 | When Peg and Cat are playing with their new friend the Big Dog, Cat suddenly becomes strangely quiet. Using a graph, Peg attempts to figure out what’s wrong with Cat.
Primary Learning Goal: Bar graphs. Secondary Learning Goal: More, less. |
| 1 | 45 | When Peg and Cat get orders for halves of pizzas, they must learn about fractions to keep their patrons pleased.
Primary Learning Goal: Fractions (whole, half)
Secondary Learning Goal: Circles |
| 1 | 46 | As Peg and Cat deliver pizzas far and wide, they are menaced by the flying Pizza Pirates who are determined to “take away one!”
Primary Learning Goal: Taking away 1
Secondary Learning Goal: Adding 10 |
| 1 | 47 | Peg and Cat must teach Big Mouth the 6 steps for making on the potty, or his visit to Viv’s house will be ruined – as will Viv’s carpet!
Primary Learning Goal: Ordering steps
Secondary Learning Goal: Pattern recognition |
| 1 | 49 | Peg and Cat must help the pirates put together a puzzle, and then the four sections of their sinking ship.
Primary Learning Goal: Composing and decomposing puzzles
Secondary Learning Goal: Recognizing the attributes of shapes |
| 1 | 50 | When the Pirates’ treasure map is torn and carried off by the wind, Peg and Cat and friends from far and wide put their scraps of map together to find the treasure.
Primary Learning Goal: Working together to solve a problem, one-to-one counting
Secondary Learning Goal: Using a map, fair sharing |
| 1 | 51 | Peg and Cat help Aki pursue a tricky thief through the Japanese countryside, making use of their Ninja skills and three mysterious clues.
Primary Learning Goal: Increasing and decreasing height and length
Secondary Learning Goal: Deductive reasoning (using clues) |
| 1 | 52 | Peg and Cat find their world turned black and white! They must identify ten things that are the wrong size or shape, before they will be allowed to leave…the Highlight Zone.
Primary Learning Goal: Shape and size
Secondary Learning Goal: Comparing |
| 1 | 54 | Peg and Cat follow the Littlest Chicken all through Fairytale Land, as she searches for a group that’s just the right size to be her new family.
Primary Learning Goal: Adding 1, subtracting 1
Secondary Learning Goal: The numbers 99 and 100 |
| 1 | 56 | When Albert Einstein has Peg and Cat over on Hanukkah, he shows them how to make a 2D piece of paper into a 3D dreidel. Later, they need to use this process to bring peace to Al’s home and save his Hanukkah.
Primary Learning Goal: Turning 2D shapes into 3D shapes
Secondary Learning Goal: Length, width and height |
| 1 | 60 | Cat longs to impress the savvy Roxanne with his knowledge of solid shapes. So he moves his lips as his hidden friend Peg speaks for him.
Primary Learning Goal: Recognizing solid shapes: rectangular prisms, pyramids, cylinders, spheres
Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by 2’s to 20 |
| 1 | 61 | Peg’s girl group the Pentagirls has its biggest show ever, featuring a new hit song about flips, slides, and turns.
Primary Learning Goal: Flips, slides and turns
Secondary Learning Goal: 2D shapes |
| 1 | 62 | Peg and Cat help Peg’s hippy Grandmom create a groovy birthday present for Granddad based on his favorite numbers: the sixties.
Primary Learning Goal: Counting in the 60’s
Secondary Learning Goal: Using simple shapes to make complex shapes, counting by 10’s |
| 1 | 64 | Peg must trek through the Kingdom of Night to reach Cat. To cross the star-shaped steps, Peg needs to find lines of symmetry with the help of a magic ukulele.
Primary Learning Goal: Understanding day and night
Secondary Learning Goal: Finding lines of symmetry |
| 1 | 65 | When Baby Fox makes a spectacular musical instrument out of junk, Peg and Cat get stuck in it! To get out they must use up, down, around and 3/4 time.
Primary Learning Goal: Up, down, over and around
Secondary Learning Goal: Musical patterns |
| 1 | 68 | Peg’s T-Ball Team, the Mighty Nine, have no chance against a team of Aliens all-stars — Unless Peg can use the Aliens’ T-ball cards to predict where they’ll hit.
Primary Learning Goal: Making predictions
Secondary Learning Goal: Ordinal numbers, between |
| 1 | 71 | When Peg realizes her lemonade stand has no cups, Cat must make a series of shrewd business deals to get 200 cups with only 2 cookies.
Primary Learning Goal: Comparing numbers
Secondary Learning Goal: Bar graphs |
| 1 | 72 | Landing in Wonderland, Peg and Cat eat berries to grow bigger or smaller, in their quest to get back Peg’s stick from the Queen of Hearts.
Primary Learning Goal: Height and length
Secondary Learning Goal: Comparing amounts |
| 1 | 74 | Robin Hood can’t tell how to redistribute the goodies! So Peg and Cat must teach him more and less.
Primary Learning Goal: Strategies for determining “more” and “less”, counting, estimating and weighing
Secondary Learning Goal: Using a pan balance |
| 1 | 75 | The Pig will only give Cat the hat he needs to warm his ears, if Peg and Cat will give him “infinity”. So Peg and Cat sail off in search of infinity.
Primary Learning Goal: Infinity
Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by 10’s, more than |
| 1 | 76 | When the Giant drops the diamond ring he’s about to give Giantess, it bounces into a pipe. He needs his very small friends Peg and Cat to get it back.
Primary Learning Goal: Ordinal numbers
Secondary Learning Goal: Adding on to find a difference |
| 1 | 77 | When Peg and Cat are chosen to organize the Giants’ wedding, they must get the twelve steps for a giant wedding in just the right order.
Primary Learning Goal: Ordering events over time
Secondary Learning Goal: Ordinal numbers |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | When Peg’s spaceship breaks down, she needs the help of a new friend who communicates without speaking. |
| 2 | 2 | To jam with Billie Holiday in the Mardi Gras parade, Peg and Cat must learn to use a diagram of notes – sheet music. |
| 2 | 3 | When a furniture store becomes a magical forest, Peg and Cat must become Knights of the Round Table – if only they can find a round table! |
| 2 | 4 | To get purple paint for their masterpiece, famous painters Peg Casso and Vincent Van Goo (Cat) need a whole new kind of addition. |
| 2 | 6 | On the singing competition “Perfect Ten,” Peg and Cat must impress the toughest judge ever: the Grumpy Grouchy Bear. |
| 2 | 7 | Peg and the dinosaurs search the jungle for Cat and Minkus, his imaginary monkey. |
| 2 | 8 | Nothing can keep Romeo and Juliet from meeting between their balconies – except maybe a dinosaur. |
| 2 | 10 | Peg's Neighborhood. How can Peg and Cat make Jesse a present for his room? He lives in two places! |
| 2 | 11 | Cat gets stuck in a tree in Egypt - with 3 crocodiles! |
| 2 | 13 | The Pentagirls get to record with the famous Worm. But this big break starts to break up the band! |
| 2 | 14 | Peg and Cat must save the nation from humiliation when the Vice President is stuck atop a monument that's 170 feet or meters tall. |
| 2 | 15 | Peg and Cat wait for a package but one minute feels like forever. |
| 2 | 16 | Is there a thief on the Peg + Cat Express that is stealing lollipops, bananas, and chickens? |
| 2 | 17 | Peg and Cat lead Emily Dickinson far and wide in search of a rhyming pattern for her new poem. |
| 2 | 20 | Peg and Cat go through the looking glass. Nonsense starts to make sense with the help of patterns. |
| 2 | 22 | Peg and Cat help the great Odysseus navigate the odd beasts and odd numbers of the Odd Sea. |
| 2 | 26 | Peg and Cat scramble to make enough valentines for all their party guests and surprise visitors. |
| 2 | 27 | ig Dog is too big to play Little Red on Peg's stage, until an elephant and mouse get into the act. |
| 2 | 28 | Peg and Cat must figure out how to use a giant beeper while chasing a giant baby and fleeing a giant mouse. |
| 2 | 30 | Peg and Cat search for their umbrellas, which they need for measuring puddle depth and singing in the rain! |
| 2 | 31 | In an outer space adventure, Peg and Cat are besieged by swiftly multiplying Fuzzballs. |
| 2 | 32 | Peg and Cat must present the King with the silliest song in the land. |
| 2 | 33 | Jesse fears that if his Mom gets married she'll love him less. |
| 2 | 35 | When the Pig leaves the farm to join the opera, Peg and Cat realize they can't make it without him. |
| 2 | 36 | Cat hires a 7-piece Mariachi band to serenade his true love, Rosana. |
| 2 | 37 | George Washington Carver's Laboratory. George Washington Carver will have a total of one hundred peanut-based inventions - if Peg and Cat can catch the tiny tricksters who keep swiping them. |
| 2 | 40 | |
| 2 | 41 | The Addison Hotel. Bellhops Peg and Cat help famous guests find their rooms in the luxurious Addison Hotel. |
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