Private Universe : Thinking Like a Mathematician

This video was very enlightning. I like to play puzzles and logic games as well. I also believe that it trains my mind without any other distractions. The towers of hanoi would be a great example of a puzzle that has lot of math concepts without any notice. Not many people know about the use of math in the real world. In the beginning of the video Fern Hunt talks about figuring out equations for how different materials reflect light. She then explains how this equations and theories will be helpful to business and other companies. The use of these equations would benefit a lot of people. When they reintroduce the problem to the students, they were able to start figuring out the problem using what they learned in school. As one student solved the problem he was able to show and explain how he came up to the answer. Using binary code he was able reinforce his answer. As the other students were learning how to use the binary code, they started to use it for other problems.