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Small Number’s adventures continue in math movie 2

Written by Lorilee
Monday, 19 September 2011 18:22
Canada

A creative crew led by Simon Fraser University math lecturer Veselin
Jungic has created its second video aimed at transforming math into a
star in the eyes of kindergarten to high school Aboriginal youth.

Mathematics and suspense don’t often come together to equal movie
success. But that’s what Veselin and his partners hope will become of
Small Number Counts to 100 and its newly minted sequel Small Number
and the Old Canoe.

The two are a part of a series of six, less than four-minute-long
animation videos envisioned by Jungic and the other creators to help
drive up B.C. Aboriginals’ completion rate of Grade 12 math.

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