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Save two hours!
Save twelve dollars!
Go see another version. Please. (I hear 1991 was a good year…)
So I’ve become a new fan of the website movieclips.com, which allows users to search for particular movie clips based in a keyword or film title.
The best part?
I can make connections (albeit, tenuously) to real life math applications. For instance, today’s lesson on simplifying radicals can be applied in a formula for finding the velocity of a tsunami given it’s depth.
Oh yes, you guessed it. :) Simply had to connect it to this clip.
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The Bad Plus – Iron Man
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Two weeks ago, my neighbor excitedly told me that he had already purchased tickets to opening night of the new Iron Man 2, slated for release today. I mentioned that even after seeing the excellent Iron Man a few summers ago, I was feeling a bit ho-hum about the sequel. This instantly started a debate as to whether there were, in fact, any sequels that live up to the original. After much debate, we were able to reach some consensus, and the following is the list we came up with:
Anything else I’m missing?
A Flock of Seagulls – I Ran
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I know, I know….that’s not how you pronounce it (phonetically “Ron”), but after years of mispronouncing the title of this epic Kurosawa film, I finally got around to actually seeing it, this past Saturday, during a rainy Los Angeles afternoon. It’s usually this time of year that we can’t really decide if it’s still winter, or whether it might actually be spring.
My students find themselves much in the same dilemma. Some days are fantastic where they ask great questions, show immensely high degrees of intuition, effort, and drive. Other days, like the soggy March rain that comes out of nowhere, seem to suggest otherwise.
Yet, spring is around the corner, and although I’m sure I don’t appreciate it’s coming as much as my Northeast readers certainly do, it’s great to be able to walk outside without a jacket, to breathe the smell of the freshly mown lawn, and to be able to begin trash talking baseball with some of my colleagues.
Bring it on…
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