Archive for the ‘Mathtrain.TV iTunes Podcast’ Category

Mathtrain.TV, Ep.105, Fraction Busters w/”Rebecca”

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

7th grader, “Rebecca”, introduces us to fraction busters – a way to simplify solving equations.

 

 

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.104, Solving Equations w/ Variables on Both Sides

Friday, October 28th, 2011

7th Grader, “Betty”, debuts with her tutorial. She takes the word problem, translates it into algebra, and then solves it. There are variables on both sides of the equation.

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.103, GEMDAS with Kermit and Freckles

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Another debut from two 6th graders, Kermit and Freckles (not their real names).  Watch these two simplify a problem using the order of operations (also known as PEMDAS and GEMDAS).

“Kermit” did 100% of the editing and this was her first time ever using Camtasia Studio!

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.102, Multi Step Equations with Rachel

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

7th grader, “Rachel”, makes her debut showing us how to solve a multi-step equation.

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep. 101, Evaluating with Swifty and Patrick

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

A new school year and “Swifty” & “Patrick” make their debut video here on Evaluating Algebraic Expressions!

 

Part of the Mathtrain Student-Created Project at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.100: Writing Repeating Decimals as Fractions in Simplest Form

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

A look at how to write repeating decimals as fractions in simplest form.

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.99, ScreenChomp

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

Screencasting on the iPad!  For Free!

In this episode, the ScreenChomp App is showcased.

screenchomp preview

 

It is meant as a rough “tutorial” and mainly as an introduction to the possibilities we might have using this with our students.

 

 

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Mathtrain.TV:Ep.98 Special Episode: FluidMath

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

This is a special episode of 2 demo-screencasts of FluidMath.

FluidMath is a cool, new math software for tablet pc and IWB users.  It can recognize handwriting and then solve, graph and animate on the fly.

 

Their Web site is http://www.fluiditysoftware.com/.

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.97 Google SketchUp is Cool

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

A quick look at how easy it is to create cylinders and prisms in Google SketchUp (free).

http://sketchup.google.com/

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.96, Reflections with Kat

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

“Kat”, a 7th Grader,  returns to shows us something she recently learned… “Reflections”.

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.95, App is Here

Friday, May 6th, 2011

The Mathtrain App is now available in the iTunes Store.

Yup, it’s free.

Created by 8th grade student, Andrew Rothman.

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.94, Spread the Word to End the Word 2011

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

Spread the Word to End the Word message Our Lincoln Middle School students wanted to share this important message about the “R” word.  We are rebroadcasting this video today, on 03.02.11.  Thanks!

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