Donald Duck Video Summary

Crystal Brickhouse
Donald Duck has entered his way through Mathmagic Land. Walking through Mathmagic Land he sees flowing numbers, trees that have square roots on them, walking pencils, and geometric birds telling Donald Duck the number of pi is. Suddenly, he hears a voice that calls himself the “ True Spirit of Adventure” that will guide him into Mathmagic Land. When Donald Duck hears that he is in Mathmagic Land he tells the Spirit that math is for eggheads. The Spirit explains to him without eggheads their would be no music. He takes Donald Duck to Ancient Grease time of Pythagoras, whom is the Father of mathematics and music. The Spirit shows him how Pythagoras discovered the harp, which was made out a simple string that was divided out in fraction to make music. The Spirit explains how today music would have not been discovered without math being involved. Donald Duck shakes Pythagoras hand, then Donald Duck see a pentagram on his hand. The Spirit explains to Donald Duck that is the symbol of Pythagorean society. He tells Donald Duck about the golden section and the golden triangle that contains on the pentagram. The golden rectangle is used in painting, architecture, human body, and nature. When it comes from Pythagoras everything is arranged according to number and mathematical shape. Donald Duck realizes also that games play a part in math. The Spirit shows him different games like chess, or playing pool. Then the Spirit plays a mental game with him, but he finds out that Donald’s mind is too messy. Once his mind was clean the Spirit tells him to think of a circle and put a triangle in the circle and the outcome was a sphere. Then they took a slice of the sphere and made it into a cone. They came up with inventions like a magnifying glass or a telescope. The Spirit takes a cone and describes to Donald Duck that a cone can be use for about any mathematical shapes. No matter how much the cone gets sliced it is always mathematics. The mind is the birthplace