Ever heard a #song on #math? Well, that’s precisely what we will be discussing in our story #15.
There's a delightful mathematical moment in the movie #MerryAndrew, when Danny Kaye, playing an unconventional teacher Andrew Larabee, breaks into song to teach the #Pythagorean theorem.
The #lyrics goes like this:
“The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle (starts singing) is equal to the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides.
Do not tolerate letting your participle dangle, so please effect the self same respect for your geometric slides.
Old Einstein said it, when he was getting nowhere. Give him credit, he was hurt to declare: Eureka!
The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides.
Now that we’ve come this far men, let’s go through the rules again.
Parallel lines never connect, which is just about what you might expect.
Though scientific laws may change and decimals can be moved, the following is constant and has yet to be disproved.
The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares, not less not more, as I said before, is equal to the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides.”
Well, it's so much #fun when you actually hear it!
Here’s the link for the song.
Start singing and learning mathematics now :)
Sources:
<1> Merry Andrew - directed by Michael Kidd in 1958.
<2> Ivars Peterson's MathTrek.
<3> ‘Mathematics Goes to the Movies’ by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross.
<4> Jeff Clark YouTube channel- Jeff Clark's Math in the Movies (Merry Andrews starring Danny Kaye).
#mathstories #mathnmovies #mathnbooks #singing #story15
There's a delightful mathematical moment in the movie #MerryAndrew, when Danny Kaye, playing an unconventional teacher Andrew Larabee, breaks into song to teach the #Pythagorean theorem.
The #lyrics goes like this:
“The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle (starts singing) is equal to the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides.
Do not tolerate letting your participle dangle, so please effect the self same respect for your geometric slides.
Old Einstein said it, when he was getting nowhere. Give him credit, he was hurt to declare: Eureka!
The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides.
Now that we’ve come this far men, let’s go through the rules again.
Parallel lines never connect, which is just about what you might expect.
Though scientific laws may change and decimals can be moved, the following is constant and has yet to be disproved.
The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares, not less not more, as I said before, is equal to the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides.”
Well, it's so much #fun when you actually hear it!
Here’s the link for the song.
Start singing and learning mathematics now :)
Sources:
<1> Merry Andrew - directed by Michael Kidd in 1958.
<2> Ivars Peterson's MathTrek.
<3> ‘Mathematics Goes to the Movies’ by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross.
<4> Jeff Clark YouTube channel- Jeff Clark's Math in the Movies (Merry Andrews starring Danny Kaye).
#mathstories #mathnmovies #mathnbooks #singing #story15