LOL!
You just reminded me of a Geometry class waaaay back when.
The teacher showed the entire class this old disney film with the crazy duck professor. It was how geometry was all over our lives in the real world. (in buildig things, how to play pool etc.)
From that pont forward, geometry was seen as part of our immediate world.
I doubt teachers today would be competent enough to even handle that simple demonstration.
ps, yes it was a male teacher...
I remember that video-- I saw it too, and it did make an impact. funny.
Are you thinking of "MathMagic"? That is an awesome way to interest kids in the real world applications of Math. My favorite part was at the end, when they showed a galaxy spinning in space, and the narrator said, quoting Galileo, I think, "Mathematics is the language with which God has written the Universe."
Not surprising that it might not be shown in classrooms today, for that reason, alone.
But that crazy old professor likely would offend SOME KID'S parents when they heard that it was shown in school. God knows why but, mark my words, it would. Then the irate and offended parents would march into school, to the School Board meeting, write to the local press and before you know it, all over the United States, a lot of people (lemmings) would realize that they too were offended by the crazy old professor and the NEA would pronounce that no longer would that crazy old professor ever, EVER teach another child in the public school system.