Maths, puzzles and Rubik's cubes - meet Sonia

Sonia loves mathematics and solving puzzles. As a young child she used to wake up in the middle of the just to try to solve at least one puzzle. She is proud of her heritage, having lived in Moscow, Russia until she was 7 and moving to London thereafter. She believes it would be beneficial for future generations if more people were involved in mathematical activities such as chess, puzzles or problem solving tasks.
This film was made by young people attending supplementary schools across London. These community-run organisations teach children about their cultural heritage and can be grouped
by language, ethnicity or faith.
1000 LONDONERS
This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a ten-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.
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1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be both producing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit www.chocolatefilms.com
TRANSCRIPT
- I was born in Moscow and I've lived in Moscow for 7 years. The other half of my life I've lived in London. What I love about London is that there are loads of cultures here, loads of different people from different backgrounds, I am very proud of myself, to have a different background to other people because I know a lot of my friends who are just British, or just Russian, they always say "oh it's so cool that you have different identities" I guess because I do consider myself to be a Londoner, and to be someone who grew up in Russia and also to be a Syrian, which is quite rare. I was always very passionate about maths and problem solving. Since I was a little kid in Moscow I would solve puzzles during the night, I would get up around 3am and would solve jigsaw puzzles and I wouldn't go to sleep until I'm done with at least one of the puzzles. My dad noticed how much I'm obsessed with puzzles, there's no other way to describe it, it was literally an obsession. He thought that my love for problem solving would just grow bigger if I start playing chess, and my first chess teacher in Moscow was actually and world grand master his name was Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and he was an amazing idol to me. He was a great person and he is really my inspiration. It really gives me the drive to carry on and to progress in my mathematical career I guess. I see math everywhere. Even in architecture or any job that we do, there's equations, formulas, shapes, sizes, there's everything is to do with math and I think that's so cool because there's an explanation to most things and I think a lot of the time I have a mathematical way of explaining it. I solve my puzzles literally anywhere. I always have a rubik's cube in my bag which I think my friends make fun of. But when they get bored I just take it out and I solve it, Sometimes on the way to school it just really calms me down. My friends and family are really supportive of my love for math and puzzles. My mum really liked it when she was a kid and she used to do rubik's cubes and she was saying that she would do it in under 2 minutes with her eyes closed and I think that's what kind of jumpstarted my rubik's cube obsession specifically. They're happy that it makes me happy. I personally don't think that a lot of kids nowadays like maths. I've known that from personal experience because a lot of my friends hate maths. But I think it's actually quite sad, because, not a lot of people understand that it could be fun. I genuinely believe that if parents involved their children in more mathematical based activities, I guess, like puzzles or chess or any sort of problem solving, it would start new generations of kids who love math, and I honestly think that would be great for the future generations.

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