1. If You Made a Million
Have you ever wanted to make a million dollars? Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is ready, willing, and able to explain the nuts and bolts -- as well as the mystery and wonder -- of earning money, investing it, accruing dividends and interest, and watching savings grow. Hey, you never know! An ALA Notable Book A Horn Book Fanfare Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Teachers' Choices Selection
2. The Shape of Space
During the 1995 Summer Institute at The Geometry Center, a team of undergraduates, middle and high school mathematics teachers and Center staff developed curriculum materials supporting The Shape of Space video. The team developed a comprehensive curriculum, covering many areas related to the video. The following materials were selected for distribution based on their direct relevence to understanding the video itself.
3. Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem
Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane into an inside and an outside.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
4. Symmetry
Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM Mathematica Exhibit which opened in 1961. The degree to which an object is symmetrical is illustrated by the number of different positions in which it can fit into a box of its shape.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
5. 2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. How Much is a Million?
With the help of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, the concepts of a million, a billion and a trillion are not so quite so intimidating.
7. LeapFrog: Math Adventure to the Moon
Join Tad and Lily a they blast off on an exciting educational adventure! Tad and Lily need the perfect collection of things to take to school for their math assignment. When they finally decide on moon rocks, there's just one problem - how will they get them? With some magical help from their firefly friend, Edison, they board a rocket to start their quest. Soon the twins learn that math is everywhere, even in outer space!
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
8. La Costante di Archimede (La Costante di Archimede)
(La Costante di Archimede)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
9. Curriculum vitae (Curriculum vitae)
An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
10. Teachers are People
As the narrator explains, educating children is one of the most important things today and the heroic man who takes on this role is "the school teacher" . After taking role call, Goofy tries to teach the class but keeps having to deal with a mischievous trouble-maker named George who enjoys sneaking out of class to go fishing, eating the teacher's apple, squeaking chalk, making faces while teacher gives a geography lesson, and terrorizing the other students with his water pistol. In the end, George's mischief goes too far when he destroys the school with an exploding bomb and is forced to write "I will not bomb the school again" 100 times!
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
11. Crossed Destinies - A Short Film About Climate Change (Destinos Cruzados - Um Filme Sobre Mudanças Climáticas)
A papercut stopmotion animation in which human Travelers from 2053 travel 30 years into the past to warn "foundlings" of the future that awaits them. The story follows Jonah and his Traveler, learning about the possible chaotic future that could happen if such measures are not applied.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
12. Dimensions (Dimensions : une promenade mathématique)
Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed!
13. Theory of Sets (Théorie des ensembles)
Made entirely on Roger Wagner's HyperStudio software, Chris Marker explores set theory, using Noah's Ark as an example.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
14. Four-Point Conics
An experimental mathematics film designed to elucidate the study of four-line conics.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
15. Dimensions (Dimensions)
A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite.
16. Meet the Math Drills - Addition
Meet the Math Facts videos made learning math facts fun and easy. Now it is time to practice what you have learned. Meet the Math Drills Addition provides hours of practice so that you will be able to recall addition equations to 10+10 with rapid speed! You will be amazed at how easily you can learn math!
17. Meet the Math Drills - Division
Meet the Math Facts videos made learning math facts fun and easy. Now it is time to practice what you have learned. Meet the Math Drills Division provides hours of practice so that you will be able to recall division equations from 0 to 12 with rapid speed! You will be amazed at how easily you can learn math!
18. The Equation X + X = 0
“If abstract films are really abstract films… they deal exclusively with those abstract relations that can be expressed in terms of shape and motion” wrote Robert Fairthorne in Film Art in 1936. A mathematician and information scientist, Fairthorne saw aesthetic potential in an animation made as a teaching aid by Salt, and proposed this collaboration.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
19. The Wesley Verbank Octagon
A girl goes on the computer to download a shape
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
20. Flatland
A short, animated film based on Edwin Abbott's 1884 satirical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
