Exponents: A Study in Generalization

Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 1

January 2017 •English

Meet the Math Facts Multiplication & Division Level 1 makes multiplication and division fun and easy! You will learn basic multiplication and division through fact families. With fun characters that you will grow to love, level 1 will teach you to easily recall basic multiplication & division math facts from 0x0 to 3x12. Primary School Prep is a division of Preschool Prep Company, home of a complete set of learning tools that have won over 100 awards. These educational products are used in homes and schools around the world. You will be amazed at how easily you can learn math!™ Features multiplication & division math facts from 0x0 to 3x12

Meet the Math Facts - Multiplication & Division Level 3

January 2017 •English

Meet the Math Facts Multiplication & Division Level 3 makes multiplication and division fun and easy! You will learn basic multiplication and division through fact families. With fun characters that you will grow to love, level 3 will teach you to easily recall basic multiplication & division math facts from 7x12 to 12x12. Primary School Prep is a division of Preschool Prep Company, home of a complete set of learning tools that have won over 100 awards. These educational products are used in homes and schools around the world. You will be amazed at how easily you can learn math!™ Features multiplication & division math facts from 7x7 to 12x12

Donald in Mathmagic Land

June 1959 •English

Disney used animation here to explain through this wonderful adventure of Donald how mathematics can be useful in our real life. Through this journey Donald shows us how mathematics are not just numbers and charts, but magical living things.

LeapFrog: Math Adventure to the Moon

January 2009 •English

Join Tad and Lily a they blast off on an exciting educational adventure! Tad and Lily need the perfect collection of things to take to school for their math assignment. When they finally decide on moon rocks, there's just one problem - how will they get them? With some magical help from their firefly friend, Edison, they board a rocket to start their quest. Soon the twins learn that math is everywhere, even in outer space!

Teachers Are People

June 1952 •English

As the narrator explains, educating children is one of the most important things today and the heroic man who takes on this role is "the school teacher" (Goofy, naturally). After taking role call, Goofy tries to teach the class but keeps having to deal with a mischievous trouble-maker named George who enjoys sneaking out of class to go fishing, eating the teacher's apple, squeaking chalk, making faces while teacher gives a geography lesson, and terrorizing the other students with his water pistol. In the end, George's mischief goes too far when he destroys the school with an exploding bomb and is forced to write "I will not bomb the school again" 100 times!

Topology

January 1969 •English

One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

December 1965 •English

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively squiggle.

The Mathematician

January 1976 •English

The salutary tale of a genius mathematician who discovers that mankind is heading for environmental disaster. Ignored by all, he sets out to prove it — however the proof, represented by “a little black box”, is taken up by those previous doubters and exploited.

Outside In

May 1994 •English

The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smooth motions and self-intersections. Through a combination of dialogue and exposition accessible to anyone who has some interest in mathematics, Outside In builds up to the grand finale: Bill Thurston's "corrugations" method of turning the sphere inside out.

How Much is a Million?

July 2000 •English

With the help of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, the concepts of a million, a billion and a trillion are not so quite so intimidating.

Meet the Math Facts - Addition & Subtraction Level 1

January 2015 •English

Adding and subtracting basic equations by sight is essential to a solid math foundation. Meet the Math Facts 1, 2, and 3 make learning to add and subtract fun and easy! With adorable characters that your child will grow to love, your child will be able to easily recall basic math facts to 10 + 10. Preschool Prep Series products have won over 25 national awards and are used in thousands of schools across the country! You will be amazed at how easily your little one can learn math!™ Level 1 - Sums 0 to 8

Symmetry

March 1961 •English

Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM Mathematica Exhibit which opened in 1961. The degree to which an object is symmetrical is illustrated by the number of different positions in which it can fit into a box of its shape.

2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

March 1961 •English

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

March 1961 •English

Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane into an inside and an outside.

If You Made a Million

January 2002 •English

Have you ever wanted to make a million dollars? Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is ready, willing, and able to explain the nuts and bolts -- as well as the mystery and wonder -- of earning money, investing it, accruing dividends and interest, and watching savings grow. Hey, you never know! An ALA Notable Book A Horn Book Fanfare Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Teachers' Choices Selection

Curriculum vitae

January 1987 •Czech

An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.

Pırıl: Sayıların Gizemi

October 2024 •Turkish

An unprecedented cloud has appeared in the sky. As a result, numbers begin to disappear one by one. İlhan, seeking revenge for the trauma he experienced in his childhood, is eliminating the numbers with the help of Biliş, whom he has brought along. As the numbers disappear, everything begins to fall apart, and daily life comes to a standstill. Pırıl and her friends embark on a thrilling adventure to solve the problem. In doing so, they discover that the root of the major issues lies in basic arithmetic and use mathematics once again to save the world from chaos.

Flatland

November 1965 •English

A short, animated film based on Edwin Abbott's 1884 satirical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

La Costante di Archimede

November 2012 •Italian

The Equation X + X = 0

January 1936 •English

“If abstract films are really abstract films… they deal exclusively with those abstract relations that can be expressed in terms of shape and motion” wrote Robert Fairthorne in Film Art in 1936. A mathematician and information scientist, Fairthorne saw aesthetic potential in an animation made as a teaching aid by Salt, and proposed this collaboration. (Tate.org.uk)