Posts Tagged ‘math’

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.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.88, Metric Conversions II

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Another look at metric conversions.

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Mathtrain.TV: Ep.87, Binary with Drew

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Lincoln Middle School student, “Drew”, shows us binary numbers!

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Mathtrain.TV: Episode 84, How We Screencast

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

We take a moment to show you how we create a screencast.  It’s just a general overview.  We can get more detailed in future videos.

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Mathtrain.TV: Episode 81, Percents to Fractions

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Student, “Phinease”, returns to show us a quick and easy way to remember how to convert percents into fractions.

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Mathtrain.TV: Episode 80, The MegaHunk Bar

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Fractions!

This is the story of Rob and the MegaHunk Chocolate Bar that he ate.  But he did not eat the whole thing.  And he did not even start off with an entire bar.

See how to solve this several ways, including visually.  This problem was adapted from my former colleague, Dr. Marcy, and his Marcyworks!

As seen on Mathtrain.TV!
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Mathtrain.TV: Episode 77, Absolute Value

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Phinease, a 7th grader at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, gives us a quick look at absolute value.

(We used a new title sequence from Camtasia Studio 7.)
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Mathtrain.TV: Episode 76, Solving 2-Step Equations

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

Middle school student, “Alice”, shows us how to solve a 2-step equation and how to check it.

Visit Mathtrain.TV for more student-created math tutorials from Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.

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Mathtrain.TV: Episode 74, Exponents Intro

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

Intro to powers, exponents and bases from section 1.2 in our 6th grade textbook.

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ISTE 2010: Here We Come!

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Just a few days away from the ISTE 2010 Conference in Denver, CO.  Come see student “Bob” and me present in the TechSmith booth as well as a formal session on Wednesday!

Please come visit us in the TechSmith booth! We don’t work for TechSmith, but they were once again so kind in sponsoring our trip and presentation.  Sadly, our school district and school has never assisted us when we go present our student work.  But thankfully, TechSmith understands.  They paid for us to fly out and stay in Denver to participate in the conference.

Here’s the scoop:

ISTE 2010 Conference, Denver, CO

Wednesday, 06/30/10
1:30PM – 2:30PM
Room 504 (CCC)

Formal Session/Lecture
Sponsored by TechSmith

This session focuses on the positive effects of adopting a collaborative “kids teaching kids” model via student-created screencasts. This collaborative model helped spark student interest and enthusiasm inside and outside of the classroom. Our student-created screencast lessons (also known as mathcasts) have reached a global audience thanks to Alan November, our free Mathtrain.TV web site and our iTunes Podcast.

Actual student-created screencasts will be shown. Attendees will also learn how to create their own screencasts and watch a live student demonstration of the process.
Student, “Bob”, will be co-presenting.