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How To: Subtract Fractions with Like Denominators
This easy video tutorial teaches how to subtract fractions with like denominators step by step.
How To: Add Fractions with Unlike Denominators Tutorial
This video tutorial teaches you step by step how to add fractions with unlike denominators.
How To: Add Fractions Tutorial
Learn how to add fractions with this easy step by step video.
How To: Solve Word Problems Involving Volume of a Pyramid
Learn how to solve geometry word problems. For example, how would you solve the following problem?
How To: Use a Venn Diagram to Solve Probability Problems
Video covering how to set up a Venn diagram. The video covers how to draw the diagram and then look at a set of data and place the data in the correct part of the Venn diagram. The sample problem is as follows.
How To: Find the Height of a Trapezoid.
Step by step directions for finding the height of a trapezoid. Video: .
How To: Find the Area and Volume of a Hemisphere
A hemisphere is sphere that has been cut in half. When you cut the sphere in half you are left with the great circle, plus half of a sphere. This fact can be used to find the area, and the volume of a hemisphere. The video works several example problems in which the area and volume of a hemisphere is calculated.
How To: Multiply by 11 Faster Than a Calculator
Yes, with this simple technique you can multiply 2 digit numbers in your head. The video also reviews a really easy method for multiplying larger numbers by 11 in a simple fashion.
How To: Multiply Any Number by 11 Easily
This video shows two techniques for multiplying any number by 11. Using these techniques you will find it is easier than using a calculator.
How To: Find the Radius of a Circle from Arc Length
The video provides two example problems for finding the radius of a circle given the arc length. Problem one finds the radius given radians, and the second problem uses degrees.
How To: Find the Surface Area of a Cylinder.
Step by step directions for finding the surface area of a cylinder. In order to calculate the surface area of the cylinder you find the area of the two bases and add this to the lateral area.
How To: Find the Volume of Composite Figures (Also Called Composite Shapes)
Composite figures are composed of several geometric shapes and are three-dimensional shapes. The first composite shape is a combination of a rectangular prism and a pyramid. To find the volume of the entire shape you find the volume of each individual shape and add them together. The second figure consists of a cylinder and a hemisphere. Check out the video below for the full lesson.
How To: Find the Volume of a Truncated Pyramid.
A truncated pyramid (frustum) is a pyramid with the top cut off. This video reviews how to find the volume.
How To: Classify a Triangle as an Isosceles Triangle.
Video: . What is an isosceles trapezoid. The video goes over the properties that are unique to an isosceles trapezoid.
How To: Simplify Square and Cube Roots
Whenever you simplify a square root or a cube root you are writing them in the simplest form. This video teaches a factoring method.
How To: Complete the Square of a Quadratic Function.
How to use "we half it,we square,we add it to both sides" when using the complete the square" This method can help make a complex Math problem a little bit easier.
How To: Add Fractions Without a LCM
This video has 7 fraction hacks that can save you time when working with fractions. The hacks are: Adding fractions without a LCM
How To: Find the Sector Area
The sector area is a section of the circle. You can think of it as finding the area of a pizza slice instead of the entire pizza.
How To: Simplify Complex Fractions
The key to simplifying fractions is to convert the fraction from a hamburger to a hot dog. In other words you change it from a fraction to a division problem, and then use Keep,Change,Flip to simplify. The video explains all of this and helps make complex fractions,simple.
How To: Change a Quadratic from Vertex Form to Standard Form.
The Vertex Form of a Quadratic Equals Vertex Form = F(X) = a(X-H)^2 +K (H,K) = Vertex, and the standard form equals f(x) = ax^2 + bx + c. This video explains how you switch from the vertex form to the standard form.
How To: Find the Perimeter of a Rectangle
If you have a rectangle and the length of only one side is given,how do you find the perimeter. The video shows how the diagonal creates a right triangle. This right triangle can be used to find the other side of the triangle, and then the perimeter.
How To: Simplify Complex Fractions
Complex fractions are fractions that contain a fraction in the numerator,the denominator, or both. You can use the Keep,Change,Flip method in order to simply these complex fractions.
How To: Work a Tension Problem
In this video tutorial I will be explaining how to work a tension problem. Usually these problems are found during a Newtons laws unit in physics. I am currently in physics and I thought I might share my strategy and work to help you guys succeed in the problems. Thank You. The video was made with Explain Everything. Also, please check out my youtube channel. It is new and I pasted a link for you guys to check out. Like comment and subscribe!
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How To: Divide Any Number with 5 in Just a Few Seconds
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News: Beauty of Mathematics
beautiful mathematics .amazing shaped hills with numbers formed in multiplication.watch it and show it to the children and students to make them interesting on mathematics.
How To: Spend Money on a Graphing Calculator? Nah—Just Use This Web-Based TI Emulator
For the majority of my math classes in middle and high school, a graphing calculator was a must. While the calculators were very useful to have, they were quite steep in the price column. After losing the TI-83 graphing calculator my parents bought me in high school, I had to save up my own money to buy the next one.
How To: Multiply Any Number by 11 with a Super Fast Mental Trick
Most of the time, when I’m bored during math class, I play with my calculator to satisfy my boredom. Recently, I've discovered that when multiplying any number by 11, 111, or any number similar to it, that it has a pattern (though I guess everything in math has a pattern). I don't know if this technique is original, because I didn't read anything about this. It's just mere observation. If it’s a tried and true technique, let me know.
How To: Calculate Consumer Surplus with a few simple equations
Struggling to find and calculate the correct consumer surplus for an econ class or in any other situation? Take a look at this guide that will walk you through the different equations and graphs necesssary to understand and calculate consumer surplus.
How To: Use PEMDAS to evaluate an algebraic expression
Algebra is not as hard as it looks. Learn how to evaluate expressions correctly by using the order of operations, which can easily be remembered as PEMDAS- Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. You can solve any problem in algebra with this approach.
How To: How Round Is Your Circle? Engineering Puzzles Explained
Can you dissect an equilateral triangle into pieces that can be rearranged into a square? If you think you can, you may have mastered the Pythagorean theorem.
News: The Magical Mathematics of Doodling
For someone who loves math as much as Vi Hart (a self-proclaimed "mathematical musician"), she doesn't pay an awful lot of attention to her math teacher. But that's ok. Cuz somehow her wonderfully whimsical doodling transforms into mini lessons on graph theory, mobius strips, binaries, fractals and more.
News: Eat Candy Buttons Like a Math Musician
Meet Vi Hart, our charming host. Vi is a self-labeled "mathematical musician", who burns paper instruments, cuts food into mathematical shapes, twists balloons into mathematical models, and makes mathematical music with candy buttons.
How To: Find a data point (Xi) with the Z-Score formula
In this free video math tutorial, we learn how to use the Z-Score formula to find a data point (Xi) in statistics. With mathematics, as with anything else, not everyone progresses at the same rate. Stats is no exception. Happily, in the age of Internet video tutorials, this isn't a problem. Those who progress quickly can go beyond what's being taught them and those who are struggling likewise have all the time in the world to catch up. Whether you need help finishing your homework or studying...
How To: Factor trinomials using the Berry factoring method
In this free video math lesson YAY MATH, we learn how to factor trionmials using the Berry method. With mathematics, as with anything else, not everyone progresses at the same rate. Algebra is no exception. Happily, in the age of Internet video tutorials, this isn't a problem. Those who progress quickly can go beyond what's being taught them and those who are struggling likewise have all the time in the world to catch up. Whether you need help finishing your homework or studying for that next...