Last week, I had to great pleasure of exhibiting at the Math, Science, Technology FunFest.
The FunFest is this terrific Tucson event where schoolchildren (mostly grades 4-8) come to the Tucson Community Center to see math, science, technology in action and hopefully get them to take more math and science in school.
The Arizona International Film Festival goes each year to teach kids math through the use of film and get them interested in attending college.
It is 3 days of fun!
We got a GREAT booth this year. Our booth was twice as big as last year and between the Phun Physics Guys (a crowd favorite) and Make Your Own Silly Putty (another favorite). I could not ask for a better location! And to top it off, we were next to the soda bottle rocket guys, which was great if you never looked up. (The rockets would land in my booth from time to time and as your mom says "could poke your eye out!")
We teach them that there are 24 frames of film per second of film viewing.
Then we do different math problems with them like, if The Chronicles of Narnia is 2 hours and 12 minutes long, how many frames is that?
ANSWER below-don't cheat, see if you can answer it first.
The kids make every day of the FunFest "Super Fun!"
They ask terrific questions, are super polite and are just great to be around.
And I have to admit it that I love when kids come to my booth because they heard it was one of the "good" booths.
I can't wait for next year!
Answer- 190,080 frames
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