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From the Ted Talk by Roger Antonsen: Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is also a ptertan. This is also an invented language. Can you gesus for what? It is actually a notation system for dancing, for tap dninacg. That enables him as a choreographer to do cool stuff, to do new things, because he has represented it.

I want you to think about how amazing representing something actually is. Here it says the word "mathematics." But actually, they're just dots, right? So how in the wlrod can these dots represent the word? Well, they do. They represent the word "mathematics," and these symbols also represent that word and this we can listen to. It sounds like this.

Open Cloze


This is also a _______. This is also an invented language. Can you _____ for what? It is actually a notation system for dancing, for tap _______. That enables him as a choreographer to do cool stuff, to do new things, because he has represented it.

I want you to think about how amazing representing something actually is. Here it says the word "mathematics." But actually, they're just dots, right? So how in the _____ can these dots represent the word? Well, they do. They represent the word "mathematics," and these symbols also represent that word and this we can listen to. It sounds like this.

Solution


  1. guess
  2. dancing
  3. world
  4. pattern

Original Text


This is also a pattern. This is also an invented language. Can you guess for what? It is actually a notation system for dancing, for tap dancing. That enables him as a choreographer to do cool stuff, to do new things, because he has represented it.

I want you to think about how amazing representing something actually is. Here it says the word "mathematics." But actually, they're just dots, right? So how in the world can these dots represent the word? Well, they do. They represent the word "mathematics," and these symbols also represent that word and this we can listen to. It sounds like this.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
straight lines 3
tie knots 2
beautiful pattern 2
computer screen 2
great circles 2
computer science 2
requires imagination 2


Important Words


  1. amazing
  2. choreographer
  3. cool
  4. dancing
  5. dots
  6. enables
  7. guess
  8. invented
  9. language
  10. listen
  11. notation
  12. pattern
  13. represent
  14. represented
  15. representing
  16. sounds
  17. stuff
  18. symbols
  19. system
  20. tap
  21. word
  22. world