How to Count Infinity via Minute Physics

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Aaron Carpenter says:

May 17, 2012 at 8:34 pm

thanks, this makes a good follow-up video to when I usually try to at least begin to explain this concept at the high school level (setting up one-to-one correspondences from natural numbers to integers and fractions between 0 and 1) … I’ve even turned Cantor’s diagonalization argument into a game with some honors classes … they usually figure out it’s ‘rigged’ after a few turns

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S. Moore says:

June 5, 2012 at 1:32 pm

This would be great for explaining this concept! The video helps give a good visual.

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marlys says:

June 5, 2012 at 1:35 pm

Good visual for number correspondence to show to students. Students can try out the skill and then watch the video. If needed they may watch as many times as needed.

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T WILSON says:

June 5, 2012 at 1:38 pm

This is a great way to show the concept of integers. I also liked the fact that the students can watch it over and over if they didn’t get the skill the first time.

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