Essential Videos

Learning

Robinson, Sir. 2021. “Sir Ken Robinson | Speaker | TED”. ted.com. https://www.ted.com/speakers/sir_ken_robinson.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenged the way we educate our children, championing a radical rethink of how our school systems cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

The Feynman Technique (2021). youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkm0TNFzIeg.

Richard Feynman was a physicist who received a Nobel prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics. He was notorious for asking others to explain concepts in simple language to test their understanding.

Mathematics on YouTube

“3Blue1Brown”. 2021. youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown/featured.

3Blue1Brown, by Grant Sanderson, is some combination of math and entertainment, depending on your disposition. The goal is for explanations to be driven by animations and for difficult problems to be made simple with changes in perspective. For more information, other projects, FAQs, and inquiries see the website: https://www.3blue1brown.com.

“Math | Khan Academy”. 2021. Khan Academy. https://www.khanacademy.org/math.

We’re a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

“Math Hacks”. 2021. youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/c/MathHacks.

Get inspired to dive into your homework and crush your goals. Here you’ll find friendly math tutorials, help, and advice on everything from algebra to calculus, proofs to number theory. Clear up the confusion and join in on the math love. YOU got this!

“NancyPi”. 2021. youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/c/NancyPi.

MIT grad shows how to use the Law of Sines to solve a triangle for missing sides and angles. To skip ahead: 1) AAS or ASA case, when you’re given TWO ANGLES AND A SIDE, skip to 0:17. 2) For how to know WHEN to use the Law of Sines in trigonometry, skip to 5:55. 3) For when the SSA ambiguous case comes up, and there may be one solution, two solutions, or no solution, skip to 6:32. Nancy formerly of MathBFF explains the trig steps to find the missing sides of a triangle using the sine function in this basic introduction to the Law of Sines formula used in trigonometry, geometry, algebra 2, and precalculus. This trig law is also known as the Sine Rule. It is helpful for solving OBLIQUE triangles with trigonometric functions.

“Professor Leonard”. 2021. youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorLeonard.

This Channel is dedicated to quality mathematics education. It is absolutely FREE so Enjoy! Videos are organized in playlists and are course specific.

“Wild Egg Maths”. 2021. youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/c/WildEggmathematicscourses/.

This channel features world class mathematics courses for undergraduate and graduate level mathematics, hosted by Dr N J Wildberger and presented through Wild Egg. These will include:
1. Algebraic Calculus One — live on openlearning.com
2. Algebraic Calculus Two
3. Geometric Linear Algebra
4. Universal Hyperbolic Geometry
5. The Algebra of Boole and Circuit Analysis

Movies

“Dead Poets Society – Wikipedia”. 2021. en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Poets_Society.

Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.

“Hidden Figures – Wikipedia”. 2021. en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures.

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

“Mr. Holland’s Opus – Wikipedia”. 2020. en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Holland%27s_Opus.

In the fall of 1964, 30-year-old Glenn Holland is a successful and talented musician and composer from Portland, Oregon. He retires and takes a position as a music teacher at John F. Kennedy High School so that he can spend more time with his young wife Iris and work on his symphony. The film covers his 30-year teaching career, set amongst the changes in American society.

“Music Of The Heart – Wikipedia”. 2021. en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_Heart.

In 1988 New York City, Roberta Guaspari, a recently divorced violinist, lives with her two sons, Alexi and Nicholas Tzavaras, and her mother, Assunta Guaspari. With Assunta’s encouragement, Guaspari attempts to rebuild her life and is recommended to the head teacher of East Harlem’s Central Park East School. Despite having little experience in actual music teaching, she accepts a substitute violin teaching position at Central Park East. With a combination of her toughness and determination, she inspires a group of children, and their initially skeptical parents. The program slowly develops and attracts publicity, eventually expanding to Central Park East II and River East Schools.

“Stand And Deliver – Wikipedia”. 2021. en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_and_Deliver.

In the early 1980s, Jaime Escalante becomes a mathematics teacher at James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. The school is full of Latino students from working-class families who are far below their grade level in terms of academic skills and also have a lot of social problems. Escalante seeks to change the school culture to help the students excel in academics. He soon realizes the untapped potential of his class and sets a goal of having the students take AP Calculus by their senior year. Escalante instructs his class under the philosophy of ganas, roughly translating to “desire” or “motivation”.

TV

“Numb3rs”. 2021. imdb.com. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433309/.

Working for the F.B.I., a mathematician uses equations to help solve various crimes.

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