KellyAnn Bonnell from the League of Extraordinary Academics presented on using visual media to enhance comprehension of math concepts. The presentation provided resources like instructional math movies from Harvard and MathFLIX that cover topics like numbers, algebra, geometry and probability. Examples were given of using movies like The Da Vinci Code to teach cryptography and the Fibonacci numbers. Hedy Lamarr's work on frequency-hopping communication that later aided wireless technology was also discussed. The presentation showed how to use movies and problems from Die Hard 3 to demonstrate solving problems with gallon jugs.

1. Using visual media
to deepen comprehension of math concepts
Presented by KellyAnn Bonnell, MA
League of Extraordinary Academics
Pop Goes the Classroom

3. Bloom’s
Revised
Taxonomy

4. HOTS LOTS
 Creating
 Evaluating
 Analyzing
 Remembering
 Understanding
 Applying

8. Pop Culture Creates Context
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9. Harvard
University
Math
Department
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/

10. 1000 FREE instructional math movies covering a wide range of math
concepts including Number & Operations, Algebra, Measurement,
Geometry, Data Analysis & Probability, Connections and Technology
http://mathflix.luc.edu/
In addition to MathFLIX’s valuable video resources, the site also features
400 downloadable worksheets that reinforce concepts and provide
valuable practice.

11. Using Movies and TV Shows to
Motivate a Lesson
The Da Vinci
Code :
Cryptography
and Fibonacci
Numbers

12. Summary
Robert Langdon asked by French police to look at crime
scene where curator of the Lourve died
There is a secret message written:
13 – 3 – 2 – 21 – 1 – 1 – 8 – 5
O, Draconian devil!
Oh, lame saint!
Recognize these numbers?

13. Summary Cont.
o Numbers are Fibonacci numbers out of order
13 – 3 – 2 – 21 – 1 – 1 – 8 – 5
1 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 8 – 13 – 21
o Rearrange words
O, Draconian devil! Oh, lame saint!
Leonardo Da Vinci the Mona Lisa

14. Uses
o Introduction to cryptography
o Introduction to the Fibonacci numbers
o Problem Solving

15. Hedy Lamarr was an extremely intelligent woman. In addition to her film
accomplishments, Hedy patented an idea that later became the crutch of both
secure military communications and mobile phone technology. In 1942, Hedy and
composer George Antheil patented what they called the “Secret Communication
System.” The original idea, meant to solve the problem of enemies blocking signals
from radio-controlled missiles during World War II, involved changing radio
frequencies simultaneously to prevent enemies from being able to detect the
messages. While the technology of the time prevented the feasibility of the idea at
first, the advent of the transistor and its later downsizing made Hedy’s idea very
important to both the military and the cell phone industry.

16. HOTS LOTS
 Creating
 Evaluating
 Analyzing
 Remembering
 Understanding
 Applying

17. DOK Questions
How does Robert
Langdon use math in
the movie?
What math skills are
necessary in basic
cryptography?
How was math
important military
intelligence?
How can you use
math to make a secret
code?

18. The Die Hard 3 problem
The bad guy tells our heroes
that they must make exactly
four gallons from five and
three gallon jugs. They did it
just in time.

19. How did they do it?
(1) Fill the five gallonjug. Threegallonjug is empty.
(2) Empty three gallonsfromthe five gallonjug into the three
gallonjug.
(3) Thereremainstwo gallonsin the five gallonjug. Empty the
three gallonjug.
(4) Pour the two gallonsinto the three gallonjug.
(5) Fill the five gallonjug and pourone gallonfromit into the
three gallonjug - fillingthe three gallonjug.
(6) Fourgallonsremainin the five gallonjug. We havesolved
the problem.

20. Step-by-step

21. Step-by-step

22. Given 11 and 4. Make 8
Step 1 Step 2
Step 3 Step 4
11 gallon
4 gallon

23. HOTS LOTS
 Creating
 Evaluating
 Analyzing
 Remembering
 Understanding
 Applying

24. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA with
a degree in Mathematics, Danica has been
honored in Britain's esteemed Journal of
Physics and the New York Times for her work
in mathematics, most notably for her role as
co-author of a ground-breaking
mathematical physics theorem which bears
her name (The Chayes-McKellar-Winn
Theorem).

25. What can
you do with
these films?
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26. HOTS LOTS
 Creating
 Evaluating
 Analyzing
 Remembering
 Understanding
 Applying

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