Video: "Doodling in Math Class: Connecting Dots"

[HowToBe]

This is an interesting video (about 8 mins.) that demonstrates some interesting math "play", teaches a bit of math, and also rants about math education and education in general (fairly accurately, I think). The lady who made the video has lots of others demonstrating different math concepts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c

Stuff like this is fun. I've always been fascinated with math, but not very fast or fluent with it. Good grades, but much slower than other classmates.

Here's a quote from the end of the video about connecting dots:

Here's the thing about connecting dots: You can have all the steps laid out for you, taking whatever step is easiest and closest and be sure of what you're getting the whole time; this way is safe and comfortable. Or you can try new ways of connecting dots and not know what you're going to get; maybe it will be something great, maybe it will fail, and when it fails it will be your fault; you can't blame anyone else - not mathematics, the system, or the checkboxes. But if I am to have faults I would rather they be my own.

Thought that was interesting.

 

[Cosmos]

here is another cool series:

Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0&list=UUOGeU-1Fig3rrDjhm9Zs_wg&index=0&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOIP_Z_-0Hs&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14-NdQwKz9w&feature=relmfu

I think my true passion would have been mathematics and physics if my live had developed in other ways.
mathematics/physics can be a door to everything I guess??

 

[HowToBe]

Yeah, I saw those ones too. Fascinating stuff. She has another video about Pythagoras and his group. It makes me curious about him. I suppose Laura has surely written about him somewhere, maybe in Secret History of the World?

 

[HowToBe]

Ah, here's one that's really interesting. It's about a number called Wau (pronounced "wow"). According to Vi (the video's creator), it was known and worshipped by ancient civilizations. It's not exactly *a* number though, since it can be represented different ways mathematically, if I understood correctly.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLkou8NvJo

I found this next video interesting, as I've been working towards getting my art online to try and sell (like I was planning on doing a year ago, but I got distracted and also was avoiding it out of fear and probably some amount of laziness).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4

 

[Thomas Alan]

Thanks, HowToBe:

This is fascinating. Oh, that I had had math teachers like this. She makes math fun and understandable.

I don't grasp "wau" but watching her illustrate it is intriguing.

The spirals in plants shows the intelligence of the Universe. Design with purpose.

Mac

 

[seek10]

here is another cool series:

Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0&list=UUOGeU-1Fig3rrDjhm9Zs_wg&index=0&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOIP_Z_-0Hs&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14-NdQwKz9w&feature=relmfu

I think my true passion would have been mathematics and physics if my live had developed in other ways.
mathematics/physics can be a door to everything I guess??

This is fascinating. C's call mathematics as the universal language.
If a body's cells, or plants cells or galaxies triggered from signals from brain ( some thing equivalent at their level) what it really needs to what number is at now, what to do ( add, subtract,multiply etc) and limit to which it grows. simple memory storage for last signal and its position and feedback loop for next signal- .Mathematics fascinating indeed. If the dots are consciousness , this adds another fascinating set of possibilities. mind body connection.

Thanks for sharing the video's.

 

[HowToBe]

Thanks, HowToBe:

This is fascinating. Oh, that I had had math teachers like this. She makes math fun and understandable.

I don't grasp "wau" but watching her illustrate it is intriguing.

The spirals in plants shows the intelligence of the Universe. Design with purpose.

Mac

:D
Yes, and the people on youtube love her for it. She works at a not-for-profit free online school called "The Khan Academy". I haven't used it yet, but I might since they offer computer science lessons. Here's the URL for anyone who wants to take a look:
_http://www.khanacademy.org