Story #8: #Movie- #LittleManTate
#Storyline:
This is the story of an intellectually-gifted eight-year old boy, Fred Tate, coming to terms with him being a wunderkind, mathematical and otherwise. The most important people contributing towards this development are his mother Dede, the director of a program for gifted children Dr Jane Grierson, and an older mathematical prodigy Damon Wells - The #Mathemagician.
#Where’s the math in the movie?
A lot of interesting questions on #algebra was posed in the movie.
In a #mathematical quiz show (in the movie), the quizmaster poses the following Qs:
QUIZMASTER: How many minutes are there in 48 years?
DAMON: 25,228,800 minutes; 151,368,000 seconds.
(The numbers are actually incorrect. 25,246,080 minutes and 1,513,728,000 seconds are the correct answers.)
QUIZMASTER:How many #factors are there in #3067.
Damon: There are no factors of 3067. The number is #prime.
QUIZMASTER: How about giving me a number, that when divided by the product of its digits the quotient is three, and if you were to add 18 to this number the digits would be inverted.
Fred whispers 24, before Damon figures it out.
QUIZMASTER: What is the cube root of 3,796,466.
FRED: 156
(Actually, the quizmaster should have asked for the cube root of 3,796,416 to get 156 as the answer.)
QUIZMASTER: What number has the following peculiarity?
This if its cube were added to five times its square and from the result 42 times the number and 40 is subtracted, the remainder is nothing.
FRED: 5
Sources:
<1> Little Man Tate movie.
<2> ‘Mathematics Goes to the Movies’ by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross - Little Man Tate (1991).
#math #mathstories #story8
#Storyline:
This is the story of an intellectually-gifted eight-year old boy, Fred Tate, coming to terms with him being a wunderkind, mathematical and otherwise. The most important people contributing towards this development are his mother Dede, the director of a program for gifted children Dr Jane Grierson, and an older mathematical prodigy Damon Wells - The #Mathemagician.
#Where’s the math in the movie?
A lot of interesting questions on #algebra was posed in the movie.
In a #mathematical quiz show (in the movie), the quizmaster poses the following Qs:
QUIZMASTER: How many minutes are there in 48 years?
DAMON: 25,228,800 minutes; 151,368,000 seconds.
(The numbers are actually incorrect. 25,246,080 minutes and 1,513,728,000 seconds are the correct answers.)
QUIZMASTER:How many #factors are there in #3067.
Damon: There are no factors of 3067. The number is #prime.
QUIZMASTER: How about giving me a number, that when divided by the product of its digits the quotient is three, and if you were to add 18 to this number the digits would be inverted.
Fred whispers 24, before Damon figures it out.
QUIZMASTER: What is the cube root of 3,796,466.
FRED: 156
(Actually, the quizmaster should have asked for the cube root of 3,796,416 to get 156 as the answer.)
QUIZMASTER: What number has the following peculiarity?
This if its cube were added to five times its square and from the result 42 times the number and 40 is subtracted, the remainder is nothing.
FRED: 5
Sources:
<1> Little Man Tate movie.
<2> ‘Mathematics Goes to the Movies’ by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross - Little Man Tate (1991).
#math #mathstories #story8