Exponents: A Study in Generalization

Crossed Destinies - A Short Film About Climate Change

A papercut stopmotion animation in which human Travelers from 2053 travel 30 years into the past to warn "foundlings" of the future that awaits them.

2023

Theory of Sets

Made entirely on Roger Wagner's HyperStudio software, Chris Marker explores set theory, using Noah's Ark as an example.

1991

Donald in Mathmagic Land

Disney used animation here to explain through this wonderful adventure of Donald how mathematics can be useful in our real life. Through this journey

1959

Dimensions

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns.

2016

Outside In

The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smoo

1994

LeapFrog: Math Adventure to the Moon

Join Tad and Lily a they blast off on an exciting educational adventure! Tad and Lily need the perfect collection of things to take to school for thei

2009

The Shape of Space

During the 1995 Summer Institute at The Geometry Center, a team of undergraduates, middle and high school mathematics teachers and Center staff develo

1995

The Occult Philosophy

An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry and laser bea

1983

Flatland

A short, animated film based on Edwin Abbott's 1884 satirical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

1965

The Mathematician

The salutary tale of a genius mathematician who discovers that mankind is heading for environmental disaster. Ignored by all, he sets out to prove it

1976

Topology

One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

1969

Teachers Are People

As the narrator explains, educating children is one of the most important things today and the heroic man who takes on this role is "the school teache

1952

Four-Point Conics

An experimental mathematics film designed to elucidate the study of four-line conics.

1961

If You Made a Million

Have you ever wanted to make a million dollars? Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is ready, willing, and able to explain the nuts and bolts --

2002

Symmetry

Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM Mathematic

1961

2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Ma

1961

Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane int

1961

How Much is a Million?

With the help of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, the concepts of a million, a billion and a trillion are not so quite so intimidating.

2000

Meet the Math Drills - Multiplication

Meet the Math Facts videos made learning math facts fun and easy. Now it is time to practice what you have learned. Meet the Math Drills Multiplicatio

2018

Meet the Math Drills - Division

Meet the Math Facts videos made learning math facts fun and easy. Now it is time to practice what you have learned. Meet the Math Drills Division prov

2018