Math Monkey Kids

Film Producer

What do your want to be when you grow up? What did you say? You don't need math to work in the entertainment industry? Think again! The exciting world of entertainment requires a serious understanding of math. I'm not talking about your leading actress status, although I would think you would want to be able to manage the $20,000,000 a film you receive. Lots of math goes into everything behind the scenes, including brining a film to the public. The producer's job is all about math.

The producer is responsible for arranging financing for a film, hiring staff, dividing out the budget, figuring out where the movie will be shot and so much more. Once the film "is in the can", the fun begins. The producer will need to find a distributor to release it, either in the cinema or DVD. She/he must work through all the deals (read: math) of getting it released. As a producer the goal is to shop the deals out there in order to make back as much of the investment as possible. The producer is always the last one to get paid, so the incentive is high to be as budget conscious and sales savvy as possible. Understanding numbers is a huge benefit to being a successful producer.

At Math Monkey we are committed to teaching Math for Life!

NASA Space Camp

Blog entry written by DJ Svetlik. DJ is 9 years old and a 4th grade student at Boca Raton Elementary . DJ attends the Saturday morning Multiplying Monkeys 1 class in our Weston Knowledge Center. DJ was accepted to attend NASA Space Camp in Huntsville, AL. DJ is also a VFR pilot.



I will go to Space Camp in the summer and the date will be July 2-4th. Just like a real astronaut, I will be put into 50 ft deep tank and I will be doing a practice repair for a satellite. Then the next day I will be in a space shuttle simulator and I will learn how to fly the space shuttle and how to land it. The next day after that I will learn how it feels how to be in no gravity. The math I learned form Math Monkey is important because if I have a emergency in the simulator and I have low fuel and the instruments fail I need to add or subtract how much fuel I have left to land. There are many other situations where I can use what I have learned for quick decisions a VFR pilot must make.

The Fall Session Ends

Written by: Molly, age 7 (Chimpanzee-Saturday)

I had alot of fun this session and I hope next session will have the same amount of fun.  I learned alot and I'm really ahead in school. I learned the magic of tens, elevens, and nines.  I learned nikihlam multiplication, doubling and halving multiplication, and magic of tens addition.  It was hard but fun.  It was hard but I handled it.