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

Great ideas and resources for teaching engaging mathematics lessons

"How to do" movies e.g. fractions, areas, algebra etc. - MP4

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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.

Mr Duey: mixed numbers to improper fractions, fractions to decimals etc.

 

How to divide fractions. No explanation of why this method works (ask your teacher to explain/show you why) but if you remember this you will be able to divide all fractions, even if they are algebraic fractions!

 

Mr. Duey: "Long Division"

 

How to find the slope of a line

 

 

Area of a circle is 3.14 x radius x radius, circumference is 2 x radius x 3.14. Don't let it be you who gets these two formulas muddled up, let it be someone else! Here's a quick 30 second video to download and watch again, and again, and again, and again . . .

 

Ok, ok, so now you know your area from your circumferences! Let's try some arcs, sectors, chords, tangents and summary of some circle theorems!

 

Oliver Bowles 27.10.09

 

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