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Mathematics in Movies is a website developed by Oliver Knill, a Harvard Mathematics professor. Mathematics in Movies is a collection of video clips from popular movies and television shows in which references to mathematics are made. One of the most recent clips comes from an episode of The Office in which Oscar tries to explain the concept of a budget surplus to Michael. I've embedded the episode below.

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On eMathematics students can learn and practice mathematics skills. Students can create an account to keep a record of the exercise they successfully completed.Teachers can create eMathematics accounts for their students. By creating an account teachers can use eMathematics to monitor their students' progress to identify their students' strengths and weaknesses. Teachers can also use eMathematics to communicate with students through email.

a fascinating discussion on the Mathematics of War. When your students ask where they'll use math in real life, have this video handy. Here's how the video is described on the Ted site: "By pulling raw data from the news and plotting it onto a graph, Sean Gourley and his team have come up with a stunning conclusion about the nature of modern war -- and perhaps a model for resolving conflicts."