There are a lot of ideas but they are all highly connected, and sometimes while they are trying to solve a particularly difficult problem they suddenly realise that they’ve been seeing the same pattern over and over and that it all just makes sense. I’ve seen it happen for students when learning about subspaces in first-year maths.
In short, we want them to have “learing epiphanies”. We want the ideas we show our students to connect together so that the students realise the true nature of things and the realisation changes them. Secondly, and more importantly, if the sun-shape had not been in her paintings so many times, she may not have noticed the connection.Īnd here’s where it relates to learning maths: Firstly, she had to bring the sun-shape home with her on the cloth.
In short, the cloth and the paintings spark an epiphany.īut it occured to me that she would never have had this epiphany without two important factors. The music swells as she realises who she really is.
She looks at the sun-shape and notices something remarkable about her painting: the sun-shape from the cloth is there in her paintings, and not just once, but over and over and over, and the repeating pattern sparks a memory of seeing the shape when she was a baby. We see her lying on her bed staring at the ceiling, which she has completely filled with painted pictures during her life in the tower. She brings one home to the tower with her on a piece of cloth to remember her experience. During the film she escapes and goes to the town where there are a lot of sun-shaped motifs. So Rapunzel grows up in her tower thinking that the old lady is her mother and not knowing who she really is. I should warn you now that in order to say what I want to say I’m going to have to reveal a bit of the plot, so let this count as your spoiler alert. It’s certainly Disney’s best movie since “Beauty and the Beast”, and I dearly loved “Beauty and the Beast”. We bought Disney Studio’s newest film “Tangled” on the weekend and I have to say it’s one of my favourite movies ever.
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