Friday math movie: Ken Robinson animated

10 February 2012

Ken Robinson animated
This is a clever animation of Ken Robinson, talking about why education often doesn’t work as intended.

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Friday math movie: How it feels to have a stroke

2 February 2012

Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight
This is a fascinating story about a brain scientist who had a massive stroke at age 37 – and who lived to tell the fascinating tale.

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Friday math movie: Carlo Ratti Architecture that senses and responds

27 January 2012

data feedback
This video shows how we can improve our lives using sensing data.

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Autograph 2-D and 3-D graph plotter: a review

23 January 2012

Autograph plotter
Autograph is a well-designed 2-D and 3-D plotting application for education. Here’s my review.

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Friday math movie: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant

21 January 2012

spirals Fibonacci
Vi Hart presents an enthusiastic rendering of spirals and Fibonacci, as relating to plants.

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Biorhythm Graphs

16 January 2012

Biorhythm graphs are an interesting - but unscientific - application of sine curves
Biorhythm graphs are an interesting – but unscientific – application of sine curves.

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Space scientist turns math teacher

15 January 2012

Dave's story
Dave tells us about his interesting working career that often involved math, and how he recently became a math teacher.

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Friday math movie: Using slope to bust a magic trick

13 January 2012

Using slope of a line to solve a magic trick
Where did the missing square go? We can use slopes of lines to solve this puzzle.

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Friday math movie: The Studio School

6 January 2012

Studio School
Is this a viable answer to the many problems experienced by mainstream schools?

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Friday math movie: U + Me = Us (calculus)

9 December 2011

U + Me = Us (calculus)
Here’s a fun video from boy band 2gether with mathematical mentions.

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