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80s Nostalgy post #1

My brother has recently posted a nostalgical post about 80s music from our time in the United States. This, together with news about Bush’s attempt to shut down PBS remined me of the educational TV shows I enjoyed while in the US in the 80s, and especially Square One, a crazy show with math concepts (including quite advanced math) presented to children in an attractive form.

You can search YouTube for examples, but here are a few great clips, some of them still pop in to my memory even today:

  • Angle dance (… have some geometric fun)
  • Tesslations (ריצופים)
  • Apple rap “I think I see the problem/ I know what you mean…)
  • Graph of Love “Just glance at this graph my friend/ Romance shows an upward trend/ I’m singing the praises of/ a thing called the graph of love.”
  • Ghost of a Chance

July 21st, 2007 at 14:30 Posted by epsalon | TV | one comment