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TED Talks to Inspire Students to Maths

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For many students, the mere mention of Math brings a shadow of dread, the boring, unyielding, uncompromising need to work at numbers in it’s abstract forms, from algebra to imaginary numbers. Attempts to ‘make math fun’ or more accessible often fall short as they are thinly veiled behind greater objectives of standards and achievements.

Here in this post, we list 7 fascinating TED talks that will hopefully inspire our student readers to aspects of Math far beyond the academic limits as they are usually shown.

Table of Contents

A performance of ‘Mathematic’

Arthur Benjamin Mathemagician

Comics that ask “What if?”

Randall Munroe · Cartoonist

Math is Forever

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón · Math educator

Why I fell in love with monster Prime Numbers

Adam Spencer · Science communicator

Why is ‘x’ the unknown?

Terry Moore · Thinker

The Magic of Fibonacci Numbers

Arthur Benjamin · Mathemagician

Symmetry, Reality’s Riddle

Marcus du Sautoy · Mathematician

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