Sunday, June 8, 2014

Video of the Day " New MooMooMath You Tube Trailer

I finally got around to creating a new You Tube trailer for my channel. It is just a basic power point converted to a video, but I think it turned out pretty good



For a list of all my videos see A-Z Video List

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Video of the Day " Congruent Triangles"

Video explains five methods for proving that triangles are congruent. The five methods for triangle congruence are
SSS Side Side Side

SAS Side Angle Side

ASA Angle Side Angle

AAS Angle Angle Side

HL Hypotenuse Leg
In addition each method has several examples and explains why the triangles are congruent along with tips and guidance from a veteran Geometry teacher.

For more information see:  Congruent Triangles

Friday, June 6, 2014

Video of the Day " Surface area of a cone"

Think of surface area of a cone as how much ice cream you can stuff in an ice cream cone Surface area of a cone explained. The surface area of a cone is found by finding the lateral area and adding this to the base area.




Surface area of a cone

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Video of the Day " Perimeter of a Rectangle"

Enjoy these two videos that cover finding the perimeter of a rectangle.


For more information please see: Perimeter of a rectangle


Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Video of the Day " Percentage word problems"

The video gives instruction on solving the following percentage word problems:

Thirty students took a Math test. If only five of these students passed the test, what percent failed?

Drew received an 80% on his EOCT Math test. The test had 200 questions on it. How many questions did Drew get incorrect?

There are thirty students in a class. Twenty of those students are female.
What percent of the class are female?

Kate bought a new dress at 85% of the regular price.
After the discount of 85% she paid $20.00 for the dress. What was the regular price?




For more information see Percentage word problems

Monday, June 2, 2014

Video of the Day " Solving word problems using the Pythagorean Theorem"

Word problems that are solved using the pythagorean theorem.

Problem 1. A wire is stretched from the top of a 12 foot pole to a stake 5 feet from the base of the pole. How long is the wire?

Problem 2. Find the height of a parallelogram with sides of 17 units by 15 units.




For more information on solving Pythagorean word problems see:
http://www.moomoomath.com/The-pythagorean-word-problems.html

Monday, May 12, 2014

Laws of exponents

Video of the Day

Laws of Exponents

Here is a video guide that goes along with the laws of exponents.

:14 Review Laws of Exponents:
:36 Sample problem multiplying exponents
1:03 Sample problem multiplying negative exponents
1:39 Sample problem with an exponential expression raised to a power
2:15 Sample problem when you have a quantity squared
3:52 Sample problem negative exponent expression raised to a power
4:02 How to work with a negative exponent
4:19 Simplifying exponential fractions

5:05 Simplifying exponential fractions with positive and negative exponents



For many more videos on exponents please see   Exponents