Schoolhouse Rock® Multiplication Rock, PLUS Powers of Ten

May 18, 2014, 3 p.m.

Credit: Schoolhouse Rock® and its characters and other elements are trademarks and service marks of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

It’s a math double feature! Remember looking forward to Schoolhouse Rock® on Saturday mornings and then singing its songs all week long? Share the fun with your children as they watch the math and multiplication episodes. This first season of Schoolhouse Rock® debuted in 1973 and taught counting and multiplying numbers from two through twelve. The catchy tunes and animated graphics taught generations of children math basics in a memorable way. Powers of Ten will be shown as a brief preview to the main show taking us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous 1968 film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. In 1998, Powers of Ten was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Suitable for family audiences. Schoolhouse Rock® is targeted to children in grades K-5.

Total Running time: approximately 45 minutes.

For more information, see MAY 2014 FRIENDS OF THE PLANETARIUM PROGRAMMING: May 16-18, 2014

Doors open: 2:30 p.m. Show begins: 3 p.m.

Our capacity is 58 seats. We set aside 20 seats to accommodate those who arrive without a reservation, so if the show is sold out you can still try to attend by arriving close to 2:30 p.m. However, although we will do whatever we can to seat all comers, there is no guarantee of admission without a reservation.