Video
- YouTube – The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out (Part 5-5)
- Richard Feynman – The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out (Part 5-5)
- YouTube – THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT (part 4 of 5)
- “I know what it means to know something”. Don’t you wish you had him as your science teacher.
- YouTube – THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT (part 3 of 5)
- Richard Feyman has got rid of any stereotypes about boring science teachers and at a first glance you may think this isn’t worth watching as it seems to just be a boring old man talking
- YouTube – THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT (part 2 of 5)
- Richard Feyman has got rid of any stereotypes about boring science teachers and at a first glance you may think this isn’t worth watching as it seems to just be a boring old man talking
- YouTube – THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT (part 1 of 5)
- Richard Feyman has got rid of any stereotypes about boring science teachers and at a first glance you may think this isn’t worth watching as it seems to just be a boring old man talking
- YouTube – New Math (Tom Lehrer) Animation
- very funny video about the bases in maths by Tom Lehrer which has been well animated
- YouTube – Blackadder II – Teaching Baldrick Mathematics
- Blackadder tries to teach Baldrick maths with beans, also some elementary dress making as well. Very very funny
- YouTube – 12 or 13.7 billion light years?
- Katie sings in her song ‘Nine Million Bycicles’ the phrase ‘… we are 12 billion light years from the edge …’. Scientist Simon Singh says 13.7 light years…
- YouTube – James Blunt on Sesame Street
- James Blunt sings a parody of his single ‘your beautiful’ as ‘my triangle’ in sesame street. very funny
- YouTube – Mathematics Genius
- Fairly funny sketch of man trying to teach his parents that 25/5=5 but they think it =14
- YouTube – The Enigma machine
- Here are some clips from ‘The Code Book’ of Simon Singh explaining how the German Enigma machine worke.
- YouTube – Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2
- The Difference Engine was an accurate mechanical calculator designed by Charles Babbage in the 1840s, but was never built in its inventor’s lifetime.
Media Articles
- BBC NEWS | Education | Too much maths ‘taught to test’
- Almost half of maths teaching in England’s schools is inadequate, with too much focus on passing tests, say inspectors.