Between 2005 and 2010 CBS in the U.S. produced a series called Numb3rs. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, it is about two brothers: one of whom is an FBI agent and the other a Mathematics professor. Together with their father and colleagues they use mathematics to solve crimes.
The US Mathematics Teachers Association (NCTM) along with Texas Instruments joined in by producing Maths activities for high school students. Texas Instruments still has them on their website.
Here are two links you might be interested in:
1) A PDF of the episodes for each of the first three seasons along with a hotlink to the resources on the TI website.
2) A link to the Wolfram Numb3rs page, that details the maths behind the series for all six seasons.
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