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She’sna recreational mathematician.
She’sna recreational mathematician.n
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nIndon’t mean that she does math for recreation, although she might. Inmean she is a professional recreational mathematician!
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nWh-wh-what?
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nVictorian(Vi) Hart likes the kind of math that most kids don’t even know isnmath, and she likes to make really rad YouTube videos about marvelousnmathematical concepts. And she manages to make most of us who watchnher videos like at least HER kind of math, too!
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nVinHart says that she went to a math conference with her dad when shenwas 13 years old. Actually, it was a computational geometrynconference. And everyone was excited and passionate about the topic,nand Hart was hooked. She said that, at that conference, “It was so different from school, where you are surrounded by this drudgery and no one is excited about it. Any gathering of passionate people is fun, really no matter what they’re doing.”
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Hartnearned her college degree in music, not math, and she tried for anwhile to start a career in the music field. However, when she foundnsome cool doodles she did while bored in one of her math classes andncreated a YouTube video called “Doodling in Math Class,” she managed to sort ofncatapult into an unusual career. People at parties sometimes askednher, “What do you do?” And there isn’t really a name for what shendoes, so Hart made up the “recreational mathematician” title!
Hartnearned her college degree in music, not math, and she tried for anwhile to start a career in the music field. However, when she foundnsome cool doodles she did while bored in one of her math classes andncreated a YouTube video called “Doodling in Math Class,” she managed to sort ofncatapult into an unusual career. People at parties sometimes askednher, “What do you do?” And there isn’t really a name for what shendoes, so Hart made up the “recreational mathematician” title! n
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nWithnmore than 44 million video views – more than 5 million for her mostnpopular video! – with over 650,000 subscribers to her YouTubenchannel, with more than 32,000 followers on Twitter and more thann34,000 fans on her Facebook page, maybe it seems as if Hart wouldn’tnneed to join forces with another biggie in the education world.nHowever, on this date in 2013, Hart announced that she was workingnwith and for Khan Academy,nthe # 1 source for free online education.
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nChecknout some of Vi Hart’s videos herenandnhere.
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Thenanniversary of Leonardo da Vinci NOT flying
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nGreatnDay for the Yankees
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nGreatnDay for the Yankees
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Anniversarynof patent for drinking straws
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Anniversarynof patent for drinking strawsn
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