mathematics

Run & Jump

Run & Jump is a mathematics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Run & Jump rather than just read about it. In short: Run & Jump is a 2013 Irish comedy-drama film starring Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam, Ruth McCabe and Will Forte. It is directed by Academy Award nominee Steph Green and produced by Tamara Anghie.

Key takeaways

Run & Jump belongs to mathematics; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Run & Jump to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Run & Jump from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Run & Jump is a 2013 Irish comedy-drama film starring Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam, Ruth McCabe and Will Forte. It is directed by Academy Award nominee Steph Green and produced by Tamara Anghie. Run & Jump is a romance film, a voyeuristic reveal of changing family dynamics and a story of physical and emotional recovery.

Plot Conor (Edward MacLiam), a highly skilled woodworker and carpenter, suffers a stroke that caused him to spend a month in a coma and several months in rehab. The stroke leaves him mentally challenged and much changed as he returns home to his wife Vanetia (Maxine Peake) and two children. Vanetia tries to keep her family together in the wake of Conor’s changed childlike condition. American doctor and neuroscientist Ted Fielding (Will Forte) has received a grant to accompany Conor to his home and stay with the family to document Conor’s recovery and his unfolding interactions with his family. Dr Fielding’s grant funds provide a source of funds to the family as Conor is now unable to produce commercially viable pieces and is compulsively obsessed with manufacturing wooden spheres. Vanetia struggles with the invasiveness of living under Ted's ever present video camera and scientific observations. Eventually, Vanetia comes to appreciate Dr Fielding's adult company. Dr Fielding’s natural uptight and formal nature begins to soften in the presence of Vanetia's free-spirited, fun-loving and optimistic personality and his video cam increasingly captures footage of Vanetia at work about the house. The movie centers on the tensions that emerge between Vanetia and Dr Fielding, Vanetia and her now-childlike husband and Vanetia and her two children. Unfolding events trigger a deadline for Vanetia to make some significant family choices for how and with whom she will live in this new post-stroke environment.

Cast Maxine Peake as Vanetia Edward MacLiam as Conor Will Forte as Dr. Ted Fielding Ruth McCabe as Conor's mother Sharon Horgan as Tara

Production Run & Jump was shot in County Wicklow and County Kerry in Ireland.

Reception Upon its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival on April 20, 2013, Run & Jump was met with mostly positive reviews. It has played to international audiences in Germany, Italy, Spain and Brazil (Oct 31, 2013). It was selected as the Best Breakthrough Feature at the Boston Irish Film Festival and screened at that festival on Mar 20, 2014. Run & Jump has secured distribution at Sundance Selects.

References

External links Run & Jump at IMDb

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Run & Jump

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Run & Jump claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In mathematics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Run & Jump before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Run & Jump ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Run & Jump

In research: Run & Jump appears in mathematics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Run & Jump in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Run & Jump is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2013 English-language films, 2013 Irish films, 2013 films, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Run & Jump outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Run & Jump in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Run & Jump means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Run & Jump out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Run & Jump in simple terms?

Run & Jump is a 2013 Irish comedy-drama film starring Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam, Ruth McCabe and Will Forte. It is directed by Academy Award nominee Steph Green and produced by Tamara Anghie.

Why does Run & Jump matter?

Because it connects several mathematics ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Run & Jump?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Run & Jump.