Mr. Keating emphasizes the real-world applicability of words, language, and poetry. He encourages his students to contemplate their life's purpose. The human race is full of passion- poetry, beauty, romance and life: the things people stay alive for. "The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"

The CyberSquad finds that no one is on floor -3, and Motherboard cannot track their location. Jackie guesses that they are on floor -5, the Grand Ballroom, so Digit tries to determine which direction to go. Initially, he thinks that they should go up, but that turns out to be incorrect. Jackie, Inez, and Matt explain to Digit why -5 is less than -3.

Smilla compares numbers to human life and defines natural numbers, negative numbers, and fractions.

The kids need to order things from coldest to warmest then order the subsequent temperatures from negative to positive.

Charlie demonstrates how math is all over in the universe. He shows how, even in simple ways, mathematics is evident.