Can Maths Explain What We Find Beautiful?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Greg and Bella are back with a brand new term of teachers giving their favourite lessons! Today it's Maths with former semi-professional footballer Mr Grindrod.
In a lesson all about sequences, patterns and ratios, we'll find out how much maths goes into the things we find beautiful. From beautiful flowers, to beautiful buildings, artworks and even faces! We'll learn about the Golden Ratio, a magic number called phi and the Fibonacci Sequence. And we'll also find out just how obsessed with maths DaVinci was!
Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.
Get in touch with your pictures - email us at teachme@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, can maths explain what we find beautiful? |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Bella Mackie. I'm Greg James and oh my God |
| 0:14.3 | teach me a lesson is back with a new term of brilliant teachers teaching us |
| 0:18.6 | incredible lessons. Hey, lady, person. |
| 0:24.0 | Oh God. |
| 0:25.0 | What was your favorite lesson from last term? I really liked the lesson we did on art and music |
| 0:37.7 | but I think I can answer the question what was your favorite lesson. |
| 0:41.2 | Cheese party. It's a party. Cheese party. |
| 0:43.2 | Yeah, it's a party, a party that's full of cheese. |
| 0:46.8 | Okay. |
| 0:47.8 | This time we've invited some of those brilliant teachers back, |
| 0:50.6 | but we've also found a bunch of new amazing teachers because you can't ever run out of |
| 0:54.7 | amazing teachers. |
| 0:55.7 | For our first lesson of Series 3, we are taking a right angle down Pythagoras place, |
| 1:01.8 | taking a shortcut through quadratic equation close, circling |
| 1:05.5 | Pye R square, D, and coming to a rest on Socatoa Street. |
| 1:12.2 | It's only bloody Maths. |
| 1:14.0 | Hooray! Do you like Maths? |
| 1:18.0 | No. |
| 1:19.0 | I love Maths. I just am not great at Maths. I wish if I had my life again, which is kind of why we're doing |
| 1:26.0 | teach me lesson, I would be better at math because people who know math they rule the world. |
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