{"id":4917,"date":"2010-08-06T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T05:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:00:21","slug":"friday-math-movie-murderous-math-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-murderous-math-tricks-4917","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Murderous math tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few things to think about from a whacky English guy, Kjartan Poskitt.<\/p>\n<p>He starts by folding a hexagon, which has a surprise twist at the end. He then proceeds to do some paper based number and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/the-ultimate-list-of-math-hacks-tricks-and-tips-13088\">geometry tricks<\/a>, involving area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwlocvToQqI\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Should math class be more like this? I don't mean circus-like, but if things are mysterious and intriguing, then they are immediately more motivating than the \"one correct answer\" type problems that students normally struggle with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-murderous-math-tricks-4917#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-murderous-math-tricks-4917\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/07\/murderous.jpg\" alt=\"murderous\" title=\"murderous\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Here's some fun to finish the week. How do these math tricks work?<\/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":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917"}],"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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13190,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/13190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}