This video series, designed for students in grades 7 to 12, was created to motivate students to study math and science. Throughout the series, classroom scenes hosted by Jaime Escalante with approximately one hundred filmed on the job interviews with professionals, technicians, researchers, designers, and others, students focus on how widely math and science are used in the real world. Discussing the importance of mathematics when developing film, photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark visits the class displaying some of her world renowned work. The topics of math, physics, engineering, and optics are required for this vocation. Another goal of optics is to build bigger eyes, such as telescopes, so that distant objects can be seen.
Lasers are another application of optics.
Combining several optical processors enables the formation of a computer and requires background in algebra, geometry, and calculus. A teacher's guide provides class discussion questions, vocabulary, math questions, and activities for each video in this series. ENC does NOT distribute this resource. Real world applications.