www.thinkmathematics.com Great ideas and resources for teaching engaging mathematics lessons

Great ideas and resources for teaching engaging mathematics lessons

INSPIRATION: The power of maths, its applications and its history - MP4

Home Learning


Copy and paste your youtube videos url into www.onlinevideoconverter.com and then select "MP4" from the dropdown menu. This converts the .flv to a file format suitable for any (not just ipods!) MP4 (if you can watch movies on your portable music player it's an MP4 player (MP3 is sound only, no movies). Then click on download, to transfer it to your computer before uploading it onto your ipod/MP4. IPhone: download it directly on iTouch if near a Wi-Fi connection.

The difficulties of Long multiplication, addition and division from "Ma and Pa Kettle"

 

The questions at the frontier of mathematics and physics.

The power of Statisitics to inform us about the World we live in. "Debunking third world Myths". Hans Rosling.

 

Fraction rap for how to do a number of operations with fractions including improper to mixed numbers, and converting a fraction to a decimal.

A life in Mathematics: Paul Horowitz.

 

Help with integration. See the website shown for more home tutorial mathmovies.

The story of mathematics: an exceptionally interesting journey through the history of mathematics. This is the first episode of the first series. Five episodes per series and three series, what are you waiting for?

 

Fermat's Last Theorem: a proof, finally, 400 years after the French lawyer, Pierre de Fermat from Toulouse, cryptically wrote in a scrawl in the margin of his manuscript: "I have a proof for this, but there isn't room in this margin to write it".

Lots of movies to download on many, many areas of study, not only mathematics

Testing Rockets

Oliver Bowles 09.09.09

 

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