Another Thing

So what is the scale of King Kong to the miniature used in the 1933 Movie starring Fay Wray? Well that would be one foot to every 3/4 inch. I started my class with a 3.5 minute YouTube video clip from the movie. The black and white version can now be seen in color. The students enjoyed the scene and we talked about the history of this movie. It was the one of the first movie makers to use miniature models to simulate a large monster. There was also a good FAQ site that addressed the movie. Tomorrow I will take a look at Crazy Horse Monument and continue our discussion of similarity in the Mathematical sense. Sort of neat... the students asked for the Rap version of PI that I had run out of time for about a week ago. It was pretty cool too.