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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Can we change math's reputation for being boring? |
0:07.0 | Math doesn't have to be this challenging, cold, hard calculating subject that you remembered in school. It can be something that's fun and |
0:15.6 | inspiring. It's Thursday, March 14th, and let me check my calendar. Oh, yep, today is Science Friday. I'm Scifry producer |
0:26.8 | Kathleen Davis. I have never liked math. I know that's a controversial |
0:31.9 | statement, but it's always been really hard for me. |
0:35.2 | Memorizing equations and multiplication tables, it left me with a bad taste for the subject. |
0:41.9 | One person trying to break math's dry reputation is not |
0:46.0 | your traditional math teacher. Kain Santos who's a drag queen and a mathematician. |
0:51.2 | Ira speaks to kind about her new book, Math in Drag. |
0:56.0 | Kind is based in Kitchener, Ontario. |
0:58.0 | Welcome back to Science Friday. |
1:00.0 | Hi, Ira. Thanks so much for having me. |
1:02.0 | You're quite welcome. All right, you know, at first glance, |
1:04.8 | I don't see a lot of similarities between math and drag, but your book is an argument that they are similar. |
1:12.3 | Tell us about that. |
1:13.7 | Yeah, you know, people think that these are two |
1:16.3 | such separate worlds, right? |
1:18.1 | We have drag, which is art, and art has no rules. |
1:21.4 | Whereas people think that math is just full of arbitrary rules. |
1:25.3 | But what the book tries to argue is really that math is about thinking creatively and |
1:30.7 | working collaboratively and thinking innovatively and questioning our pre-held stereotypes and believes. |
1:38.0 | Yeah, so tell me about your personal background with math. |
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