Make It Count

I don’t like it. I don’t get it. Is anything beyond the basics even necessary for real life? Few other subjects quite elicit equal amounts of fear and fascination like Mathematics. Math can be baffling, confusing and down right frustrating, if you don’t get it. But once you see how it works, you can’t help but be drawn to its beauty, elegance and allure. Make It Count is a programme that takes Math and applies it to everyday life. It seeks to remove its mystery and and help children (as well as their parents) to discover the joys of Math. Make It Count will show that we are living Math principles all the time without realising it and that there is more to Math than formulae and rote learning. Every week, DJs Joakim Gomez and Charmian Tan will help you discover one way Math can make it count. From winning at games to entertaining friends, succeeding in school, improving at sports, stretching your dollar, getting around town, enjoying art, appreciating Nature, and finding your way in the kitchen, the Math quirky duo will show you the power of numbers. If you have ever hated Math, ever been baffled by it, ever wanted to make sense of it, Make It Count is the programme for you!

Maths & Theme Parks
23 mins

The season begins with a fun-filled, high-octane episode that brings you the Maths behind thrill rides. Joakim and Charlotte get wet and wild at Adventure Cove to show you how shapes is the key to making roller coasters safer, how the Queueing Theory can help you beat those time-wasting queues and how knowing speed, angle, weight and height can help you zip down water slides.

Maths & Theme Parks

The season begins with a fun-filled, high-octane episode that brings you the Maths behind thrill rides. Joakim and Charlotte get wet and wild at Adventure Cove to show you how shapes is the key to making roller coasters safer, how the Queueing Theory can help you beat those time-wasting queues and how knowing speed, angle, weight and height can help you zip down water slides.

Math & The Anatomy
24 mins

Why do some animals have big ears and others have tiny ones? Clue: it’s not to match their body size or shape. Why do you hug yourself when you’re cold? Why does the tiny mouse eat more than the large elephant? Make It Count goes into the wild to show you how Maths can give you the answers to all of these.

Math & The Anatomy

Why do some animals have big ears and others have tiny ones? Clue: it’s not to match their body size or shape. Why do you hug yourself when you’re cold? Why does the tiny mouse eat more than the large elephant? Make It Count goes into the wild to show you how Maths can give you the answers to all of these.

Maths & Magic
23 mins

Put on your top hat and bring out that wand, it’s time for magic, Maths style. This episode mimics the mystique of Breaking the Magician’s code to help you astound your friends with your ability to read minds, predict the future and guess their shoe size all by using Maths.

Maths & Magic

Put on your top hat and bring out that wand, it’s time for magic, Maths style. This episode mimics the mystique of Breaking the Magician’s code to help you astound your friends with your ability to read minds, predict the future and guess their shoe size all by using Maths.

Maths & Architecture
23 mins

Done in Amazing Race style, we pit Joakim against Charlotte in a quest around Singapore to find Maths in the nation’s famous skyline. From buildings that draw inspiration from Nature’s favourite shape to the structures that share the same ratios as our insides and the Maths behind the gravity-defying domes that is the Gardens by the Bay, this is a round-island tour with a difference. After this episode, you will never look at skyscrapers in...

Maths & Architecture

Done in Amazing Race style, we pit Joakim against Charlotte in a quest around Singapore to find Maths in the nation’s famous skyline. From buildings that draw inspiration from Nature’s favourite shape to the structures that share the same ratios as our insides and the Maths behind the gravity-defying domes that is the Gardens by the Bay, this is a round-island tour with a difference. After this episode, you will never look at skyscrapers in...

Maths & Music
23 mins

Music swells with passion, moves the emotion. Maths is cool, clinical, methodical. One is fire, the other is ice. But did you know that Maths and Music are close cousins? Yes, Music relies on many Maths ideas.Beethoven's famous 5th symphony features the infamous Fibonacci sequence. Mozart's music uses the Golden Ratio. Fractions are what makes Chinese music work. We show you how Maths makes sure you will never run out of musical compositions...

Maths & Music

Music swells with passion, moves the emotion. Maths is cool, clinical, methodical. One is fire, the other is ice. But did you know that Maths and Music are close cousins? Yes, Music relies on many Maths ideas.Beethoven's famous 5th symphony features the infamous Fibonacci sequence. Mozart's music uses the Golden Ratio. Fractions are what makes Chinese music work. We show you how Maths makes sure you will never run out of musical compositions...

Maths & Fun
23 mins

Blowing bubbles, stretching taffy, optical illusion – all of these have to do with Maths. In fact, mathematicians spend a lot of time on these because behind these seemingly simple and fun activities is complex Maths that has helped Architecture, Medicine and even Art. Along the way, we meet the cousin of the famous Golden Ratio – the Silver Ratio. This episode does not just look at how Maths is fun, it looks at the Maths in all the fun things...

Maths & Fun

Blowing bubbles, stretching taffy, optical illusion – all of these have to do with Maths. In fact, mathematicians spend a lot of time on these because behind these seemingly simple and fun activities is complex Maths that has helped Architecture, Medicine and even Art. Along the way, we meet the cousin of the famous Golden Ratio – the Silver Ratio. This episode does not just look at how Maths is fun, it looks at the Maths in all the fun things...

Maths & Food
23 mins

Maths can make you a whizz in the kitchen and it goes beyond knowing how to convert oven temperatures or measuring your ingredients. Find out how Mathematicians have come up with the perfect way to bake pizzas and divide them, roast potatoes, dunk biscuits in drinks, make perfectly fluffy pancakes and even get the most cream cheese on your bagel. Maths could not be any more delicious.

Maths & Food

Maths can make you a whizz in the kitchen and it goes beyond knowing how to convert oven temperatures or measuring your ingredients. Find out how Mathematicians have come up with the perfect way to bake pizzas and divide them, roast potatoes, dunk biscuits in drinks, make perfectly fluffy pancakes and even get the most cream cheese on your bagel. Maths could not be any more delicious.

Maths & Game Theory
24 mins

When we think about the needs of others, we end up benefitting ourselves. Sounds like something from your Social Studies class? Well, it is Maths actually, Game Theory to be exact. In this episode, we look at the Maths behind why it is better to be considerate, to co-operate and to forgive; why making others lose out hurts us instead; and how understanding all this can help us predict natural disasters.

Maths & Game Theory

When we think about the needs of others, we end up benefitting ourselves. Sounds like something from your Social Studies class? Well, it is Maths actually, Game Theory to be exact. In this episode, we look at the Maths behind why it is better to be considerate, to co-operate and to forgive; why making others lose out hurts us instead; and how understanding all this can help us predict natural disasters.

Maths & Nature
23 mins

Honey, we shrunk the hosts! Joakim and Charlotte gets zapped to mite-size to enter the world of teeny, tiny critters. There, they discover that ants use Maths to find the shortest routes and that bees know the concept of zero. Along the way, they realise that rivers observe pi as they meander, and the stripes on zebras and the spots on leopards are determined by Maths. It seems that Mother Nature counts on Maths, too!

Maths & Nature

Honey, we shrunk the hosts! Joakim and Charlotte gets zapped to mite-size to enter the world of teeny, tiny critters. There, they discover that ants use Maths to find the shortest routes and that bees know the concept of zero. Along the way, they realise that rivers observe pi as they meander, and the stripes on zebras and the spots on leopards are determined by Maths. It seems that Mother Nature counts on Maths, too!

Maths & Holidays
23 mins

'Tis the season to be jolly and Maths can help you celebrate with aplomb. Find out why Santa is magical (or impossible) with Maths. Learn how you can set up a secret Santa game that is totally fair with Maths. Put up the perfect Christmas tree and wrap up odd-shaped gifts all using Maths. Maths is the real ingredient that makes your virtual world work.

Maths & Holidays

'Tis the season to be jolly and Maths can help you celebrate with aplomb. Find out why Santa is magical (or impossible) with Maths. Learn how you can set up a secret Santa game that is totally fair with Maths. Put up the perfect Christmas tree and wrap up odd-shaped gifts all using Maths. Maths is the real ingredient that makes your virtual world work.

Maths & Movement
23 mins

Maths goes on the move in this episode that looks at how movement needs Maths. Why do we feel like time flies? How do you move safely and quickly in a crowd? How can you be a safer driver (or help daddy be one)? How can you be a better juggler (or learn to juggle in the first place)? Let Maths help you navigate all these.

Maths & Movement

Maths goes on the move in this episode that looks at how movement needs Maths. Why do we feel like time flies? How do you move safely and quickly in a crowd? How can you be a safer driver (or help daddy be one)? How can you be a better juggler (or learn to juggle in the first place)? Let Maths help you navigate all these.

Maths & Shopping
23 mins

Chinese New Year is right around the corner and there is plenty of shopping to be done and plenty of Maths to discover. Shapes and fractals that make you spend more, timing that affect how you see advertisements and prime numbers that protect you when you go cash-less – Maths is there even while you shop.

Maths & Shopping

Chinese New Year is right around the corner and there is plenty of shopping to be done and plenty of Maths to discover. Shapes and fractals that make you spend more, timing that affect how you see advertisements and prime numbers that protect you when you go cash-less – Maths is there even while you shop.

Maths & Video Games
23 mins

Need a break from school? Want to chill with your favourite video game? Well, Maths is in the games you play, too. Without angles, you would not be able to hit those sneaky pigs in Angry Birds. Without Maths formulae, you would not be able to roam the lands, collect treasures or level up in local game gone global, Cat Quest. Without Maths, you would not be able to tap your way to billions of points with BattleSky Brigade Tap Tap.

Maths & Video Games

Need a break from school? Want to chill with your favourite video game? Well, Maths is in the games you play, too. Without angles, you would not be able to hit those sneaky pigs in Angry Birds. Without Maths formulae, you would not be able to roam the lands, collect treasures or level up in local game gone global, Cat Quest. Without Maths, you would not be able to tap your way to billions of points with BattleSky Brigade Tap Tap.

Maths & Winning
24 mins

You learnt how to win at Monopoly, scissors-paper-stone and tic-tac-toe using Maths. Now, it is time to up your game. We bring you the Maths behind dice rolls, the Memory Game, guessing games and words games to help you beat everyone else.

Maths & Winning

You learnt how to win at Monopoly, scissors-paper-stone and tic-tac-toe using Maths. Now, it is time to up your game. We bring you the Maths behind dice rolls, the Memory Game, guessing games and words games to help you beat everyone else.

Maths & Science
23 mins

You know Maths and Science are closely intertwined but did you know how much? We show you the Maths in Biology, particularly in your body. We tell you about the Maths in Chemistry that makes bridges safe. We teach you about Maths in Physics and how that can keep you safe from lightning.

Maths & Science

You know Maths and Science are closely intertwined but did you know how much? We show you the Maths in Biology, particularly in your body. We tell you about the Maths in Chemistry that makes bridges safe. We teach you about Maths in Physics and how that can keep you safe from lightning.

Maths & Predictions
24 mins

Did you know you can predict the future? If your friend falls ill and you hang with him, will his germs spread to you and those around you? Will your body take well to new medicine? Will the earth's plants will give us enough oxygen to live on? With Maths you can make all these predictions. Interested? We will show you how.

Maths & Predictions

Did you know you can predict the future? If your friend falls ill and you hang with him, will his germs spread to you and those around you? Will your body take well to new medicine? Will the earth's plants will give us enough oxygen to live on? With Maths you can make all these predictions. Interested? We will show you how.

Maths & Being Orderly
23 mins

How do you pick the shortest queue at the supermarket? What does being orderly have to do with surfing the Internet and sending emails? How do you get on the right lane to beat the jam? Maths has the answer.

Maths & Being Orderly

How do you pick the shortest queue at the supermarket? What does being orderly have to do with surfing the Internet and sending emails? How do you get on the right lane to beat the jam? Maths has the answer.

Maths & Growth
24 mins

How can one grain of rice on a single square on the chessboard become enough rice to feed a village simply by doubling the grains at every square? How can a piece of paper folded just 42 times reach the moon? What do all these have to do with world population? It is all in the Maths.

Maths & Growth

How can one grain of rice on a single square on the chessboard become enough rice to feed a village simply by doubling the grains at every square? How can a piece of paper folded just 42 times reach the moon? What do all these have to do with world population? It is all in the Maths.

Maths & Language
23 mins

Maths can help you master language faster, writer better compositions, craft more lyrical poetry and, in a reversal of roles, language can also help you master Maths. This episode shows you the close relationship between Maths and Language.

Maths & Language

Maths can help you master language faster, writer better compositions, craft more lyrical poetry and, in a reversal of roles, language can also help you master Maths. This episode shows you the close relationship between Maths and Language.

Maths & Sports
24 mins

Be better at ultimate frisbee, swim faster, perform skating stunts more successfully. Wouldn’t you love to do all that? Maths can make you sporting dreams come true.

Maths & Sports

Be better at ultimate frisbee, swim faster, perform skating stunts more successfully. Wouldn’t you love to do all that? Maths can make you sporting dreams come true.

Maths & the Human Body
23 mins

Why do you we have two eyes, two ears, two lips, two hands and two feet? Maths knows. Why can’t we stop ageing? Maths knows. What is the trick to behind complex hair braids? Maths knows. We look at the Maths behind our bodies.

Maths & the Human Body

Why do you we have two eyes, two ears, two lips, two hands and two feet? Maths knows. Why can’t we stop ageing? Maths knows. What is the trick to behind complex hair braids? Maths knows. We look at the Maths behind our bodies.

Maths & Being Smart
24 mins

Are you smarter than a 12-year-old? In the style of the popular gameshow "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?", we solve those tricky PSLE Maths questions like Cheryl's birthday, the lighthouse problem and the ribbon problem.

Maths & Being Smart

Are you smarter than a 12-year-old? In the style of the popular gameshow "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?", we solve those tricky PSLE Maths questions like Cheryl's birthday, the lighthouse problem and the ribbon problem.

Maths & TV Magic
24 mins

Go behind the scenes of Make It Count and see how Maths is involved in the entire production process. From the lighting to the camera angles, what makes a scary movie and how to get the best television set, we are continually using Maths to talk to you about Maths on our television programme.

Maths & TV Magic

Go behind the scenes of Make It Count and see how Maths is involved in the entire production process. From the lighting to the camera angles, what makes a scary movie and how to get the best television set, we are continually using Maths to talk to you about Maths on our television programme.

Maths & Craft
23 mins

There is a crocheting craze amongst some primary school girls and the passion is catching on. But crocheting is more than craftwork, it is Maths in the making. Mathematicians actually use it explain complex concepts. See the Maths in crocheting and other crafts like origami and pop-up art and learn how to make lovely Maths-inspired creations along the way.

Maths & Craft

There is a crocheting craze amongst some primary school girls and the passion is catching on. But crocheting is more than craftwork, it is Maths in the making. Mathematicians actually use it explain complex concepts. See the Maths in crocheting and other crafts like origami and pop-up art and learn how to make lovely Maths-inspired creations along the way.

Additional Information

Premiered2019
Genreschildren and family, older kids (7-12)
Suitable For All Ages