The shadow determines the latitude where the picture was taken. Compare the idea of Eratosthenes to measure the shadows of a stick on different locations to get the earth’s radius.
The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption, and alchemy. In the movie, there is a beautiful math scene about the multiplication table and the compound interest formula.
In the movie, two eighth-graders start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites. The movie clip of this beautiful love story starts a bit earlier, to explain…
The Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Mechanics. The entire movie celebrates this principle, starting with the dead/alive cat scene, unsharp boundaries singing and T.V. reception, accepting mysteries, culture clashes, quantum tunneling…