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Watch Donald. He’s worth your time

Dan Crawford | August 25, 2012 9:41 am

Via David Zetland’s Aguanomics comes this reminder (1959) of ‘why math is fun’ worked for kids.  He didn’t see it till taking calculus.  Can you imagine it being produced now?

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6 Comments
  • Jonathan Swift says:
    August 25, 2012 at 12:58 pm

    I remember this from grade school and tried to find it for my kids. Some 50 years later still love the square roots line and the billiard scene. There must be thousands of these gems on old media that woud still be useful. Imagine organic chemisstry and molecular bonding in todays computer graphics.

  • Grumpy says:
    August 25, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    I don’t think so. Cartoons are fun. Math is only fun for the mathematical, and not all of them bother to keep thinking when they “apply” their algorithms to the real world.

  • run75441 says:
    August 26, 2012 at 8:59 am

    Probably would not be done today

  • Anonymous says:
    August 26, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    The writers still believed the old legend that the Golden Rectangle was used in Greek art and architecture. But only if you use rough measurements; in fact, almost any rectangle can be found, for example, in the Parthenon.

  • jessie pearl says:
    August 27, 2012 at 2:57 am

    I recently came across your article and have been reading along. I want to express my admiration of your writing skill and ability to make readers read from the beginning to the end. I would like to read newer posts and to share my thoughts with you

    shot for slim

  • Luthier School says:
    September 17, 2012 at 2:48 am

    I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff your post

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