Sixth grader, “Selena”, makes her debut and teaches us how to multiply fractions! Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV project.
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Mathtrain.TV: EP.117, Multiplying Fractions w/ “Selena”
December 14th, 2012Mathtrain.TV: Ep.116 Comment Calculer la Puisance d’un Nombre (Solving Exponents)
November 25th, 2012Student, Avec Clem, is now in 7th grade. Here she shows us (in French) how to solve exponents. Don’t worry if you don’t speak or read French, because English captions are included.
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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.115, MakeyMakey Student Paper Piano
September 21st, 2012Student using the new MakeyMakey kit creates a paper piano.
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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.114, We are in Alan November’s New Book
August 3rd, 2012While we are away on Summer holiday, we figured we would share our excitement about being mentioned in Alan November’s new book, “Who Owns the Learning?“.
alan’s new book
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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.113, Resoudre Des Proportions En Utilisant Le Produit En Croix
June 23rd, 2012“Solving Proportions using Cross Product”. Yes, it’s in French! Our first! And it is the debut from Clem, a 6th grade student from Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA. The English captions are included.
Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV project.
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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.112, Create a Tessellation!
June 10th, 2012Let’s have some fun and create a tessellation!
Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV project.
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Mathtrain.TV, Ep.111, Area of Trapezoids
May 19th, 2012Debut screencast from 6th grader, “Pixie”, of Lincoln Middle School, in Santa Monica, CA! “Pixie” shows us how to find the area of a trapezoid.
Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV project.
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Mathtrain.TV, Ep.110, Reflection App for iPad
April 21st, 2012A quick look at how to start using the Reflection App on your Mac so you can share your iPad/iPhone screen.
The cool thing is you can move around the classroom with this app on and iPad or iPhone camera on and have a “portable, wireless document camera”!
If you want to show it on a projector, just remember that you need to have an adapter to go from your Mac to your projector (which is most likely a VGA connection).
Download the Reflection App.
Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV project.
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Mathtrain.TV, Ep.109, Remembering the Nines
April 15th, 20126th grader, “Kermit”, shows us 3 interesting ways to remember the 9’s – – multiplication by 9.
She recorded and edited the entire screencast by herself!
Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV project.
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Mathtrain.TV, Ep.108, Basic Trig with Paul
April 1st, 2012“Paul” returns from high school to do a basic trig video. She shows us the famous “soh cah toa” used in trigonometry.
Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV Project.
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Mathtrain.TV, Ep.107, Complete the Square
March 24th, 2012An algebra student had this question for homework. This is a tutorial for a completing the square problem from Mathtrain.TV.
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Mathtrain.TV, Ep.106, Visual of Subtracting Fractions (mixed numbers)
March 3rd, 2012A visual look at subtracting fractions. This goes along with another video we made several years ago. Here, we use pizza as a way to help visual this subtraction of fractions.
Original video with alternative method is at http://youtu.be/yXiG2iv1Vq8 .
Part of our Mathtrain.TV Project.
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