Creating a “joyous interest” in math is the goal of the first Math-O-Vision contest in which high school students submit math-themed movies of four minutes or less in length. The contest is the brainchild of SFI External Professor Dan Rockmore.
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“At the beginning, almost every child likes math,” says Rockmore in an article in the Valley Times. “They don’t see it as a loaded concept. They see it as problem solving, counting, shapes, a puzzle. I want Math-O-Vision to generate a joyous interest in the subject again, and I suspect that next year, we’ll have more entries once people have examples from this year of what a math video is.”
The Math-O-Vision contest was sponsored by the Dartmouth College math department and the school’s Nukeom Institute for Computational Sciences.
Read the article in the Valley News (May 21, 2013)