Well, triple, actually. What the hell, quadruple. Quintuple even. I may be a little bit nerdy, but I still can’t add up.
First up, much obliged to the endless thread at Pharyngula for this clip, in which Abbott and Costello prove the fungibility of numbers:
Just to prove I’m down with the kids, some rap. First, quadratic equations:
Lamar Queen is a rapping 8th grade math teacher in Los Angeles:
Mr Purdy does the Dance of The Parallel Lines:
Why didn’t I ever have maths teachers like those two?
Sing it, nerd girl! Baby got
But let’s not let the Merkins have all the maths glory.
I will derive, hey hey…wish he’d done it in the sparkly boobtube and rollerskates, though:
Go Aussies, with Pythagoras’ Theorem, TTTO Waltzing Matilda:
Bonus podcast link:
From the Mark Steel Lecture Series on the BBC here’s his lecture on Isaac Newton. 30 minutes of sciencey hilariousness.
