My six-year-old son loves the website ActivityTV.com, especially their science, origami, cooking, and magic videos. I watched a few of the magic how-to videos with him and was pleasantly surprised to see that some of them had a distinctly mathematical feel to them. For example: Jumping rubber bands: topological properties of circles and linked circles…
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Arthur Benjamin: Lightning Calculation and Other “Mathemagic”
I’m continuing to enjoy watching mathematics videos online. This week I saw a few math-related TED talks pop up in my news reader and enjoyed watching them: Math = Letting Dead People Do the Work at Let’s Play Math How calculus is changing architecture at Casting Out Nines In case you do not know what…