Math is hard. It hurts my brains. A boy once tried to teach me The Joy of The Möbius Strip using a paper strip and a Bic pen. It was magic to mathematically challenged brain.
This YouTube video was created by 22-year-old Vi Hart who believes that calculus should be replaced with recreational mathematics.
"There's all this fun beautiful stuff that people would enjoy. While some of the other math is more useful for some jobs in the real world, it isn't actually necessary for the average high-school student to know calculus. We should be focusing more on how beautiful or awesome things are." via NewScientist
Visit vihart.com where she has even more math fun with music boxes, food, plastic swords and laundry baskets.
Maybe it's not too late to teach my old brain some new math tricks.
Well, it's a nice idea, but I don't think "recreational mathematics" is going to get people to watch less television.
Posted by: Joe | March 31, 2011 at 07:31 PM