{"id":1248,"date":"2008-06-20T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2014-11-16T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T08:04:26","slug":"friday-math-movie-how-to-use-the-quadratic-formula-by-hector-the-battle-droid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-how-to-use-the-quadratic-formula-by-hector-the-battle-droid-1248","title":{"rendered":"How To Use the Quadratic Formula by Hector the Battle Droid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week's math movie is fun.<\/p>\n<p>The title says it all...<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fE0jbYVpekE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>It's quite a clever compilation of social commentary with an important mathematical concept. The quadratic formula arises a lot when solving math problems, because the curve of a quadratic (a parabola) is an elegant simple shape, and can be used to model many real-life situations.<\/p>\n<p>Well anyway, the video is not a bad way to revise the quadratic formula.<\/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-how-to-use-the-quadratic-formula-by-hector-the-battle-droid-1248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/06\/hector.gif\" alt=\"the battle droid\" title=\"hector\" width=\"128\" height=\"111\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>This week's movie is a creative and entertaining take on the quadratic formula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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\/1248"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}