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- https://www.aei.mpg.de
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- Science and Technology
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- Mathematics, Physics
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- Streaming/Download
Also known as the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, the institute was founded in 1995 for the purpose of pursuing research into the fundamental laws of gravitation. The Videos, Pictures and Texts section of the website is organised into five categories: Images, Movies and Simulations; AEI Research Reports; Brochures; Max Planck Research and Max Planck Yearbook. The audio-visual content includes short films about Quantum gravity and unified theories, the GEO600 Interviews-where scientists explain the direct detection of gravitational waves-, an interview with Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss, and an animation illustrating how ATLAS analyses data from the international gravitational wave observatory network. The institute also provides the Einstein online, a resource that presents Einstein’s theories via two main sections: the Elementary Einstein with the basics of relativistic physics, and the Spotlight on Relativity, which explores modern relativity research.
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- https://www.exploratorium.edu
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Art, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, General Science, History, Mathematics, Nature, Physics, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Web Links
A public learning laboratory, The Exploratorium, is devoted to just that: exploring the world through science, art and human perception. Their mission is ‘to create inquiry-based experiences that transform learning worldwide’ and perhaps more importantly their vision is ‘a world where people think for themselves and can confidently ask questions, question answers, and understand the world around them’. The museum makes available a vast range of, video programmes, organised by subjects, including: Arts (532 videos), Astronomy and Space (220), Biology (331), Chemistry (97), History (35), Mathematics (19), Nature of Science (13), Perception (55), Physics (215), and Social Science (575). There is also a Websites section with over 35, 000 pages of content, which can be explored by subject too.
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- http://www.foster77.co.uk/mathematicalbeginnings/
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- Science and Technology
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- Mathematics
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- Web Links
How many streets or place names near you use a mathematical term? Freedom Square, Polygon Road…this website offers a collection of 46 starting points for rich mathematical activity in the classroom. The site lists each of these activities via an intriguing title (e.g. Beach, Polygon Road, Tissues, Coffee cards). It then links the title to three further pages: the ‘beginning’ page, which is an image illustrating the concept behind the title, a ‘prompt’, which offers suggestions for students to start asking mathematical questions, and a ‘teacher’s notes’ page which helps teachers to identify possible problem-solving contexts. The brains behind this practical site is Dr Colin Foster, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research in Mathematics Education at the University of Nottingham, and with this website he shares his enthusiasm for the art of effective questioning.
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- https://www.youtube.com/user/HEGARTYMATHS
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- Science and Technology
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- Mathematics
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- Film/Video
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- Courses, Streaming/Download
HegartyMaths is a YouTube channel created by maths teacher Colin Hegarty. The aim of the site is to provide videos to help students with their Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-Level maths studies. Topics are compiled in playlists and the videos also include past paper solutions to aid revision.
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- https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/secrets-mathematics
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- Science and Technology
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- Mathematics
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Podcasts from the University of Oxford podcasts series in which Oxford mathematicians explore the power and beauty of their subject. Recent topics have included Sir Roger Penrose describing how crystalline symmetries are necessarily 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, or 6-fold; Professor Marcus du Sautoy, Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, talks about the connections between art and mathematics and Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen presents in his inaugural lecture several examples to illustrate the origins, developments, and roles of partial differential equations in our changing world. The site provides full information on each speaker and a summary of content; keywords are linked so topics can be searched across the various podcasts.
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- https://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/hollywood/mathindex.htm
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Film Studies, Mathematics, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources
This site looks at mathematical concepts (e.g. counting, Pythagorus’ theorem, calculus, area of a circle) raised in feature films and gives explanations, and in some cases corrections, that can be discussed in class.
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- http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Film Studies, Mathematics, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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Annotated listing of feature films that contain some reference or relevance to mathematics. A section entitled Mathematicians in the Movies lists mathematicians and mathematical physicists who are featured in motion pictures. Additional suggestions are welcome.
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- http://videolectures.net/
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- Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, Computing, General Science, Mathematics, Physics, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Courses
Hundreds of video lectures and tutorials from around the world are available from here on a variety of scientific topics as well as interviews with such luminaries as Tim Berners Lee and Noam Chomsky. Windows Media Player is required to view. The presentation is for the most part very straightforward and rarely goes beyond the taping in medium shot of a speaker lecturing his audience, though some of the interviews do stray outside the lecture hall. The encodings are perfectly watchable even for items that last over an hour and in addition copies of the relevant PowerPoints have sometimes been included. The site does not offer a subject index, but there is an alphabetised run down of all the speakers. The site is available in English and Slovenian.
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- http://www.shotlist.co.uk
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Computing, Education, Engineering, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Psychology
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- Film/Video
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- Producers/Broadcasters, Video Sources
Shotlist, part of the EBS Trust, produces subject-specific video materials for teaching and research, which are distributed at minimal cost to all UK education establishments, who are also able to purchase sub-masters from which they are permitted to copy, re-edit, and re-format the programmes according to their own needs. The site gives descriptions of the videos by subject: Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Engineering, Information Systems, Practical Maths, Psychology, and a series of lectures on Irish literary figures including Joyce, Wilde and Yeats.
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- http://www.the-numbers.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Mathematics, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources
This rather amusing site is dedicated to reporting up to the minute American box office statistics, presenting them in about a dozen permuatations, such as breaking the figures down by day, month, year, leading actor, title (as in most popular film whose title starts with a particular letter) and so on.
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