I’d heard there was some kind of film awards event in America over the weekend (The Olivers, The Oreos, The Otters?).
And whilst I don’t really keep up to date with hip young swingers like Sophia Loren and Ben Kingsley (concerning myself instead with matters maths tutoring), I do like to keep a toe in the cultural waters, to so speak. To this end, I’ve found a blog that combines the silver screen and the squeaky whiteboard in the shape of ‘Maths teacher goes to the movies’.
The language isn’t always suitable for the youngest Whizzers, but the blog is witty and irreverent, combining movie review and maths analysis in regular posts. Here’s the teacher’s take on some bad maths teaching in new release Doubt:
Yes folks, what we have here is a clear transgression of Maths Teacher’s (hitherto secret) First Rule of Movie Mathematics: Thou Shalt Do The Math. Clearly Sister Amy has been at the communion wine when she should have been revising her knowledge of basic fractions, and a better movie would surely have seen the eagle-eyed Ms Streep getting all righteous on Ms Adam’s ass for her shortcomings in matters arithmetic. PSH could still have been around, going on about Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems, if he was keen to be seen as “trendy” – and you just know a dedicated actor like him would go off and study the subject for a good few months, just to get the part right.
Talk about a missed opportunity!
I’ll be checking in back in with the moviegoing maths teacher soon.
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