Here at Harvard we have many innovative and groundbreaking General Education classes that challenge the traditional ideas of what education is. I am in one of these classes called "Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 16: Your Chance for Happiness or Misery." The class is divided into sections on topics related to real-life, including modules on love, money, medicine, and even chocolate/wine tasting. In each of these modules we learn about how statistical principles affect everyday decisions, and how ultimately, a better understanding of statistics can lead to a better life.
Following in this idea, instead of a problem set, our first assignment was to make a movie about statistics in order to learn about using i-Movie, as we will be making more movies to describe statistical phenomena. During the semester, we will even have two movie nights to share our statistics movies.
I decided to make a cartoon for my movie, and thus I spent all day taking hundreds of pictures and moving small pieces of paper a centimeter at a time. It is pretty unusual to learn about cinematography in a math class, but then this is no ordinary class. Pretty cool, don't you think?
Watch it!
Meet Bernoulli and follow him on his quest for love!
Its kind of small, so watch it full screen :)
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