{"id":5458,"date":"2011-01-21T12:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T04:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T01:10:27","slug":"friday-math-movie-doodling-in-math-class-binary-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-doodling-in-math-class-binary-trees-5458","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Doodling in math class - binary trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vi Hart was featured in the NY TImes this week: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/18\/science\/18prof.html?_r=3\">Bending and Stretching Classroom Lessons to Make Math Inspire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here's a mesmerizing video featuring Hart's suggestions for making math a tad more interesting. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4MSN6IImpI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I like the way she irreverently, and cleverly, criticizes the state of math teaching while illustrating the very concept that is supposed to be happening in class (exponential growth patterns). She achieves this by constructing binary trees.<\/p>\n<p>Vi Hart is daughter of mathematical artist George W. Hart.<\/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-doodling-in-math-class-binary-trees-5458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/01\/di-hart-math-ddodles.jpg\" alt=\"vi-hart-math-doodles\" title=\"vi-hart-math-doodles\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Bored in your math class? Here's some doodles that may make it more interesting, from Vi Hart.<\/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":[127,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458"}],"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=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}