The Double (2013) IMDB. The never-ending applications of statistics.
The Man who Knew Infinity (2015) IMDB. Ramanujan has fun with partitions.
An Invisible Sign (2010) IMDB. A little Fibonacci in the classroom.
Anna to the Infinite Power (1983) IMDB. Sometimes teachers can surprise you.
Family Ties: 7.13 (1989) IMDB. Some people are good at their mental arithmetic.
Devil Girl From Mars (1954) IMDB. The martians clearly have much to teach us.
Taxi: 1.1 (1978) IMDB. Some people are good at their mental arithmetic.
Goodbye to Language (2014) IMDB. Goddard may know what he's talking about, even if no one else does.
Doctor Who 2005: Midnight (2008) IMDB. You never know when you'll need an irrational root.
Ramanujan (2014) IMDB. Some very famous mathematicians and a very famous taxi.
Saint Clara (1996) IMDB. Some puzzles are easier than you'd expect.
Infinity (1996) IMDB. Some impressive infinitying, before it gets weird.
The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed (2014) IMDB. How all mathematicians should dress.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 5.19 (2001) IMDB. Slaying triangles.
Last Week Tonight (2015) IMDB. Risk and Republican mathematics.
All This and Heaven Too (1940) IMDB. It seems that French classes used to be a lot tougher.
Box of Moonlight (1996) IMDB. Flash cards can be a huge help.
Dear Brigitte (1965) IMDB. A boy with a very good sense of priorities.
The A-Team: 1.6 (1983) IMDB. It's apparently not easy to explain the infinity concept of declining numbers.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) IMDB. Understanding is secondary; the reasoning is the thing.
Sneakers (1992) IMDB. Shhh! I'm trying to listen to the crazy guy up front.
Outside Providence (1999) IMDB. It's amazing what you can accomplish with a little study.
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982) IMDB. A great idea for a soccer match.
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) IMDB. One would think mathematical proof is the least of his concerns.
Cube (1997) IMDB. There's no royal road through cubic geometry.
The Simpsons: 7.7 (1995) IMDB. Dimensions just have to be shown who's boss.
Tin Man (2007) IMDB. A little mental arithmetic.
Stand and Deliver (1988) IMDB. Jaime Escalante fills the hole.
South Park: 11.8 (2007) IMDB. It can be really tough to teach negative numbers.
The Simpsons: 9.3 (1993) IMDB. A long, long rhyme.
The Simpsons: 20.13 (2009) IMDB. Maybe Homer is smarter than we thought.
Survivor: Thailand (2002) IMDB. Maybe they should have saved this challenge for Survivor: Princeton.
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1951) IMDB. A geometry breakthrough from Gracie Allen.
Izo (2004) IMDB. An unfortunate Samurai ghost demonstrates the perils of playing with Möbius strips.
Mindhunters (2004) IMDB. A little cubing while playing psych games.
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) IMDB. Idle classes and idle brains.
Aces (2006) IMDB. Which is more polished, the maths or the acting?
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) IMDB. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson try their hand at jug mathematics.
Cloak and Dagger (1946) IMDB. Well, you have to do something while hiding from the Nazis.
WALL.E (2008) IMDB. An easy puzzle for some.
Cheers: 6.16 (1988) IMDB. Some amazing probability.
Cheers: 4.3 (1985) IMDB. Some tricky arithmetic.
Total Drama Island 1.15 (2007) IMDB. In a barrel of leeches for ten seconds? Close, but no banana.
Cheers: 3.13 (1985) IMDB. Some tricks just leave you gasping.
The Thin Man (1934) IMDB. Mathematics can really help with family planning.
The Daily Show: 20.28 (2014). It's reassuring to have upper and lower bounds.
Bender's big score (2007) IMDB. Some razzle dazzle Globetrotter calculus.
Bromwell High 1.12 (2005) IMDB. Kind of says it all.
Idiocracy (2006) IMDB. No comment, just no comment.
Harold & Kumar Escape From Gauntanamo Bay (2008). An irrational pick up line.
Chen Jingrun (2001). Mathematicians are not always well understood.
Batman (1966) IMDB. Holy curvature, Batman!
Fletch Lives (1989) IMDB. A funnier name than Chevy Chase.
Malcom in the Middle 1.1 (2000) IMDB. The pleasures of being the smart kid.
Malcom in the Middle 1.7 (2000) IMDB. Malcolm saves the day.
Last Week Tonight: 1.7 (2014) IMDB. A very smart man interviews a very funny man.
P.S.(2004) IMDB. The universal attraction of universal gravitation.
Matilda (1996) IMDB. Teachers can be so appreciative.
12 to the Moon (1960) IMDB. It's always good to have a mathematician handy.
Are You With It? (1948) IMDB. The exacting standards of actuaries.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) IMDB. Computers can make things so much easier.
Force of Evil (1948) IMDB. A handy guy to have around, just in case Barbie smashes your calculator.
Red Planet (2000) IMDB. And we thought all that maths was useless.
Oh God! Book II (1980) IMDB. A class (and a curriculum) we could do without.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) IMDB. A very full drink.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) IMDB. If you can't solve a maths problem, change it.
Agora (2009) IMDB. Apparently Hypatia was a thousand or so years ahead of her time.
The Daily Show: 19.65 (2014) IMDB. Maths and other fun things.
Small Time Crooks (2000) IMDB. Crime doesn't pay (at least not that much).
The Daily Show: 19.68 (2014) IMDB. Some mathematical advice for thugs.
Mean Girls (2004) IMDB. A good tutor can help a lot.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) IMDB. A puzzling coin.
Graveyard Disturbance (1987) IMDB. Anything mathematical can happen in a cemetery.
The Nugget (2002) IMDB. Some dodgy but happy arithmetic.
The Core (2003) IMDB. It's essential to know all the prime numbers. (And, our column.)
The Infinite World of H. G. Wells: 1.5 (2001) IMDB. Occam's duster.
Don't Try This at Home (1990) IMDB. The way we like our magic (and our mathematics). (And, our column.)
Rain Man (1998) IMDB. Some people can get by without a calculator.
The Simpsons: 9:18 (1998) IMDB. A training film for the Australian Curriculum.
Gokusen: 1.3 (2004) IMDB. Boy, how we've wanted to do this a few times.
Moonlighting: 2.13 (1986) IMDB. Bruce engages in a little maths humour.
Flash Gordon (1980) IMDB. You never know when you'll need a prime number.
Cube 2 (2002) IMDB. A crazy mathematician helps explain a crazy structure.
The Daily Show: 19.15 (2013) IMDB. Diane Ravitch, with some naive ideas about education as a public good.
Kelly's Heroes (1970) IMDB. Some wishful contraband thinking.
Diabolique (1996) IMDB. Tough class!
Strangers on a Train (1951) IMDB. Some strangers are stranger than others.
Stand and Deliver (1988) IMDB. Fun with finger maths (and our column).
Thunderbirds: Sun Probe (1965) IMDB. Technology helps with a maths problem.
The School of Rock (2003) IMDB. An interesting way to teach (a little) maths.
I Went Down (1997) IMDB. A great way to get people to listen to your maths lecture.
Star Trek: Court Martial (1967) IMDB. Captain Kirk boosts the computers.
The Professor and His Beloved Equation (2006) IMDB. Another friendly clip from this great movie.
Beautiful Ohio (2006) IMDB. The fun of maths competitions, and proud parents.
The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Genius (1958) IMDB. Who says projectile motion can't be fun?
Dance Squared (1961) IMDB. Some very active squares.
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952) IMDB. Even mobsters have to relax.
Infinity (1996) IMDB. Richard Feynman impresses a girl.
Family Guy: When You Wish Upon a Weinstein (2003) IMDB. Yeah, maths is really important.
21 Grams (2003) IMDB. Some flowery philosophy with lunch.
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) IMDB. Not your normal job application.
Moebius (1996) IMDB. And we thought Melbourne's public transport had problems!
Battlefield Earth (2000) IMDB. One geometric step at a time.
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1994) IMDB. Romantic twins.
Stand-In (1937) IMDB. An accountant with a difference.
The Life of Pi (2012) IMDB. An unfortunate name and an impressive solution.
Twilight (2008) IMDB. The best scene from the worst ever vampire movie.
The Colbert Report: 8.112 (2012) IMDB. Boy bands praise all those who don't praise themselves.
Insignificance (1985) IMDB. Cosmology is such a turn on!
The Professor and His Beloved Equation (2006) IMDB. A beautiful movie, based on the beautiful Yoko Ogawa novel.
The Ice Storm (1997) IMDB. A very insightful kid.
Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959) IMDB. A strange creature has a strange notion of π.
Criminal Minds: Masterpiece (2008) IMDB. Kidnapping, with an elegant golden ratio touch.
Omar Khayyam (1957) IMDB. A great mathematician, Hollywood style.
The Simpsons: Bart Gets a Z (1988) IMDB. Bart and Milhouse get a lesson in times tables.
My Stepmother is an Alien (1988) IMDB. An alien explains her alien ways.
Jason X (2001). A cute way to fix the odds.
Infinity (2012). A cool short film by VCE student Elizabeth Duong.
That Mitchell and Webb Look: 2.1 (2008) IMDB. A movie we'd like to see.
That Mitchell and Webb Look: 2.6 (2008) IMDB. The history of the greatest game show of all time.
The Daily Show: 18.21 (2012) IMDB. Jon Stewart and Nate Silver engage in a little post-election gloating.
The Colbert Report: 8.120 (2012) IMDB. Stephen Colbert ponders Republican maths (and our column).
Breaking the Code (1996) IMDB. The Enigma machine, and the way to beat it (and our column).
Hans Christian Andersen (1952) IMDB.
Maths classes look like such fun!
Marius (1953) IMDB. The strange mathematics of mixing drinks (and our column).
The Abbott and Costello Show: 1.19 (1953) IMDB. In Australian education, everyone gets the third banana.
That Mitchell and Webb Look: 1.1 (2006) IMDB. The greatest game show of all time?
Paint Your Wagon (1969) IMDB. A clip indicative of the fine work your Maths Masters do with children (at least according to Senator X) (and our column).
The Daily Show: 17.149 (2012) IMDB. Bill Clinton gives the Republicans a maths lesson.
S4 (2008) IMDB. We like irrationals too, but not that much.
Doctor Who 2005: 42 (2007) IMDB. You never know when you'll need some recreational mathematics.
The Colbert Report: 2.108 (2006) IMDB. Stephen Colbert investigates the world of donuts (and our column).
Blackadder II: Head (1986) IMDB. A slow learner.
The Gambler (1974) IMDB. The mathematics of belief.
The Colbert Report: 8.69 (2012) IMDB. More intellectual brilliance of the Republican Party.
The Colbert Report: 8.86 (2012) IMDB. The intellectual brilliance of the Republican Party.
Threshold: Trees Made of Glass, Part 2 (2005) IMDB. We're not fans of group therapy either.
Threshold: Outbreak (2005) IMDB. Another way to investigate probability.
This is Spinal Tap (1989) IMDB. VTAC logic (and our column).
Fermat's Last Tango (1989) IMDB. The press at work (and our column).
That's Adequate (1989) IMDB. The true story of the discovery of relativity.
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) IMDB. A pretty girl and poetic mathematics (and our column).
Stand and Deliver (1988) IMDB. Integration by ganas.
The Wonder Years: Math Class (1989) IMDB. Mr. Collins, a great maths character.
Touch: Pilot (2012) IMDB. So that's how to win the lottery (and our column).
Family Guy: Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington (2001) IMDB. A senator employs a really big number (and our column).
Forbidden Planet (1956) IMDB. Alien exponentials (and our column).
Torchy Gets Her Man (1938) IMDB. We cannot confirm that this is a technique taught in Maths Methods, but we can't rule it out either (and our column).
The brilliant Steve Martin is interviewed by the brilliant Bob Osserman (and our column). The DVD can be purchased here.
Carry on Teacher (1959) IMDB. Teachers can be so clever (and our column).
The Wizard of Oz (1939) IMDB. Australian higher education in a nutshell (and our column).
Waterboys (2001) IMDB. Some applied geometry.
Get Smart: The Decoy (1966) IMDB. Max recites his times tables (and our column).
Pleasantville (1998) IMDB. A very strange world, with some even stranger director's commentary. (And, our column).
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1994) IMDB. A gift for the mathematician who has everything.
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1994) IMDB. Tough standards for a mathematician's date.
A Pure Formality (1994) IMDB. Gérard Depardieu and Roman Polanksi play geometric mind games.
Hotel Hilbert (1996) IMDB. David Hilbert would be proud.
Mean Girls (2004) IMDB. The glamorous world of maths competitions.
Suspect X (Yôgisha X No Kenshin) (2008) IMDB. How to occupy yourself in prison.
Futurama: A Fishful of Dollars (1999) IMDB. The perils of cheating.
Three O'Clock High (1987) IMDB. The perils of cheating.
Ball of Fire (1941) IMDB. Barbara Stanwyck makes one hell of an apple.
Quality Street (1937) IMDB. It's important to check with real herrings.
The Road to Hong Kong (1962) IMDB. There is Hope for us yet.
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) IMDB. Advanced calculus indeed.
Salem's Lot (1979) IMDB. The peculiar geometry of vampire creation.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) IMDB (and our column). The logic of witch-hunting.
My Little Chickadee (1940) IMDB. W. C. Fields adjusts the mathematics of poker.
Pythagoras and the 30 Virgins (1977) IMDB (and our column). Karel Gott sings that old favourite, Thank-you Mr. Pythagoras.
Merry Andrew (1958) IMDB (and our column). The musical approach to remembering a famous theorem.
The 4th Dimension (2006) IMDB (and our column). A precocious (but not quite correct) boy has fun with his teacher.
Futures: Math, Who Needs It? (1991) IMDB. Paula Poundstone sums up school mathematics.
I.Q. (1994) IMDB. Romantic Zeno.
The Music of Chance (1993) IMDB. You see, numbers have souls.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) IMDB. A meddling alien.
Evil Roy Slade (1972) IMDB. Outlaw arithmetic.
The Daily Show (2011) . Fair and balanced, and really, really dumb.
Wonder Woman: The Pluto File (1976) IMDB. Getting help with your homework.
The Siege of Syracuse (1960) IMDB. What really happened with those mirrors.
Succubus (1968) IMDB. Yes, she's beautiful, but keep your eyes on the piano!
21 (2008) IMDB. Hollywood doing a reasonable job with Monty Hall.
Teen Patti (2010) IMDB. Bollywood doing an awful job with Monty Hall.
The Arrival (1996) IMDB. Hollywood checks things "as best they could".
Julie Johnson (2001) IMDB. Mischa Barton vs the Cantor set.
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) IMDB. A big idea − you know, for kids.
Freaky Friday (2003) IMDB. The fun of maths tests.
The Rules of Attraction (2002) IMDB. How to practice very safe sex.
Oh God! Book II (1980) IMDB. A God with better math sense than George Pell.
Six Feet Under: Brotherhood (2001) IMDB. A teacher, and her loving student.
St. Trinians (2007) IMDB. Oh dear, a queer sphere.
In July (2000) IMDB. Mathematics to the rescue.
Bingo (1991) IMDB. A very smart dog.
She Wrote the Book (1946) IMDB. A movie that raises the age old question: Do you like bridges?
Cabiria (1914) IMDB. A "wise old man" constructs a circle or parabola, or something.
Are You With It? (1948) IMDB. Donald O'Connor as an actuary, giving a remarkable lesson in applied mathematics.
Shrieker (1998) IMDB. How to fight a 4-dimensional monster? Study "multidimensional topography".
Brain Dead (1990) IMDB. Numbers are fine, but equations ...
The Giant Claw (1957) IMDB. A romantic prelude, and then tracking a monster from outer space.
Breaking the Code (1996) IMDB. Alan Turing and his friend ponder a pinecone.
La Moutarde Me Monte Au Nez (1974) IMDB. It is important to put some energy into your teaching.
Lambada (1990) IMDB. A cool teacher demonstrates the power of the Rectangular Coordinate System.
Bullshot (1983) IMDB. The British are just so good at things.
Bullshot (1983) IMDB. An alternative method of reciting a formula.
The Favor (1994) IMDB. Some bluesy fractals.
The Favor (1994) IMDB. Never try to seduce a working mathematician.
Little Big League (1994) IMDB. Billy gets some help with his homework from the Minnesota Twins baseball team.
Christmas Vacation (1989) IMDB. Clark Griswold sums up the effect of his many christmas lights.
The Santa Claus 3 (2006) IMDB. A Little reindeer arithmetic.
Attack Girls' Swim Team vs the Unliving Dead (2007) IMDB. Word problems can have a dramatic effect on people.
Bedazzled (2000) IMDB. Elizabeth Hurley, as the Devil, demonstrating the National Curriculum approach to pure mathematics.
Better Off Dead (1985) IMDB. A clip demonstrating how our students truly perceive us.
Batman (1966) IMDB. Commissioner Gordon contemplates a very evil rectangle.
Team America: World Police (2004) IMDB. A very funny running joke, beginning with a terrorist plot that will be "Nine eleven times a hundred".
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