{"id":1156,"date":"2008-05-30T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2009-06-29T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T02:13:40","slug":"friday-math-movie-math-illuminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-math-illuminated-1156","title":{"rendered":"Friday Math Movie - Math Illuminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week's movie is actually a whole series on math, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learner.org\/courses\/mathilluminated\/ \">Math Illuminated<\/a> from Annenberg Media.<\/p>\n<p>The series won a WebVisionary Award in the education category at the WebVisions Conference held in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>I can't embed any of the movies here, since they are only accessible behind a password. You can sign up for free. <\/p>\n<p>From the blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mathematics Illuminated is a thirteen-part series for adult learners and high school teachers. The series explores major themes in the field of mathematics, from humankind's earliest study of prime numbers, to the cutting-edge mathematics used to reveal the shape of the universe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Topics in the series:<\/p>\n<p>    * 1 The Primes<br \/>\n    * 2 Combinatorics Counts<br \/>\n    * 3 How Big is Infinity?<br \/>\n    * 4 Topology\u2019s Twists and Turns<br \/>\n    * 5 Other Dimensions<br \/>\n    * 6 The Beauty of Symmetry<br \/>\n    * 7 Making Sense of Randomness<br \/>\n    * 8 Geometries Beyond Euclid<br \/>\n    * 9 Game Theory<br \/>\n    * 10 Harmonious Math<br \/>\n    * 11 Connecting with Networks<br \/>\n    * 12 In Sync<br \/>\n    * 13 The Concepts of Chaos<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learner.org\/courses\/mathilluminated\/ \">Math Illuminated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update: <\/b> Annenberg's site is sometimes irritating, since it has some confusing usability issues. Also, many of the videos are not available outside the US or Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-math-illuminated-1156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/05\/escher.jpg\" alt=\"Escher\" title=\"escher\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Mathematics Illuminated is an award winning video series from Annenberg Media.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the video topics include Primes, Infinity, Topology, Game Theory and Chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}