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Donald in Mathmagic Land
Oh, my- how did I miss this one all these years?
This is classic Disney, a short film (27 minutes) that won an award for short documentary when it first came out.
Donald Duck takes a trip through an enchanted math forest (where the trees have square roots-too funny). He meets Pythagoras, and we learn how the musical scale was first invented. Then we go on to the golden rectangle, the strategy behind billiards (which I never knew) and a ton of other stuff that was really cool.
I am going to have to watch it again because there was just so much to take in (and I am slow  ). The kids loved it and immediately wanted to
watch it again. 
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This is one of my favorite videos of all time! I love Galileo's quote: "Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." Plus the beautiful photography illustrating the Fibonacci sequence in nature.
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Oh, thanks for the reminder. We'll have to dust this one off. My ds(who now claims to dislike math) LOVED this when he was littler.
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Thanks for the recommendation!
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You have discovered one of our favorites, Melinda!
Just wanted to add an errata:
The character states, "Pi is equal to 3.141592653589747, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera". The correct value of pi (to the same number of digits) is actually 3.141592653589793.
I know you were all going to lose sleep over that one!
You guys might also like this short, done by Xerox films in 1971 - The Weird Number.
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My kids love this movie! I am amazed how many times that even my 3 and 4 year old ask to watch it.
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Mackfam wrote:
Just wanted to add an errata:
The character states, "Pi is equal to 3.141592653589747, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera". The correct value of pi (to the same number of digits) is actually 3.141592653589793. |
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So, you're a detail-oriented person? Ya' think?
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I love this one!! I remember seeing it when I was a kid, too. I need to get it on DVD for my kiddos. They saw it once on the end of another movie on VHS but I don't even know what happened to it after that.
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