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Fractals: The Koch Snowflake
The characteristics of Koch's mathematical fractal are produced by following a set of simple rules, which result in an infinitely reducing pattern. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the...
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Perspective: Parallax
Discover how parallax can be used to measure distances, and how early astronomers used it to find the distance of stars from Earth. Maths - Space A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s math...
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Maths and the Mona Lisa
See the Golden Ratio in the Mona Lisa and how it has contributed to the painting becoming the most viewed artwork in the world. Maths - Measurement A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s...
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Cubist Art
How Cubist artists used geometry to represent a form in its purest way using geometric shapes such as the cone, cylinder and sphere. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s...
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Straight Lines: Bee Lines
Why do bees fly in straight lines, and why does man now copy nature? Maths - Space A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show abstract concepts in action in the real world.
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Fractals: The Menger Sponge
Revealing the shape which gets bigger the more you take away... in which an infinitely increasing surface area meets an infinitely decreasing volume. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the...
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Painting By Numbers
See how two simple mathematical principles allowed artists to create the feeling of space within two-dimensional paintings. Maths - Space A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context...
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Topology
How objects can be deformed to make different shapes without tearing, cutting or gluing. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show abstract concepts in action...
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Ratios: Currency Exchange
Why are currencies worth different values, and how do you calculate the cross-currency value of your money? Maths - Number A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show abstract...
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Modelling the Spitfire
Though the world's first model aircraft, a Spitfire, was built in a scale of 1:75, the resulting model would fit into the full-size equivalent more than 370,000 times over. Discover how scale is calculated in three dimensions. Maths -...
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Pi: Reciting Pi
Watch one champion try to recite Pi to as many digits as he can; and discover what Pi is and why it is useful. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show...
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Beating the U-Boats
How Churchill used geometry to protect his supply convoys during World War Two, by identifying the best shape for convoys to travel in... a circle. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the...
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Ratios: The Maths of Baking
How would you bake the world's biggest cake? The same way as a small one... in ratio, but with increased measures. Maths - Number A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show...
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Designing Chartres
Discover the geometry underlying the design of Chartres Cathedral in France, and its many decorative features. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s math films show abstract...
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Proportion: The Vitruvian Man
What role does geometry play in da Vinci's famous drawing, and how does it use proportion to describe human anatomy and 'design' in nature. Maths - Measurement A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the...
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Networks: Labyrinths and Mazes
Find out how labyrinths and mazes are created, and how to navigate your way through each. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s math films show abstract concepts in action in...
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Cartesian Coordinates
What do mathematicians imagine a space with four dimensions would look like? Discover the coordinates that are used to describe space, and how these extend to the 4th dimension. Maths - Space A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the...
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Building the Pyramids
The use of 3-4-5 triangles in creating uniform right-angles and angles of incline in the ancient Pyramids of Egypt. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s math films show...
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Measuring the Earth
The story of how a Persian scholar calculated the Earth's circumference over 1000 years ago, using only a mountain and trigonometry. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s...
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Cylinders: Fuelling Saturn V
In creating giant detachable fuel cylinders to blast Apollo 8 into outer space, NASA engineers manufactured the most powerful machine ever made. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the...
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Spirals in Nature
Investigates different types of spiral, from logarithmic to Archimedean, how each is formed and where they are found in nature. Maths - Space A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s math...
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Queen Hatshepsut's Ship
An international team of archaeologists face a unique challenge to build a replica of the Pharaoh Queen's famous ship, based only on an ancient scale drawing. Maths - Space A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by...
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Calculating Pi: Archimedes
Archimedes' mathematical ability was central to his work as a great engineer. Discover how he came up with the most accurate approximation of Pi in ancient times, by bounding a circle within 96-sided polygons. Maths - History Of Maths A...
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Where is the Centre of a Triangle?
The answer is not as straight-forward as it might seem, because all triangles have more than one centre! How many centres does a triangle have, and how do you find them? Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning...