The Math Dude Quick and Dirty Tips to Make Math Easier
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The Math Dude Quick and Dirty Tips to Make Math Easier
The Math Dude makes understanding math easier and more fun than you ever thought possible. Host Dr. Jason Marshall provides clear explanations of math terms and principles, and his simple tricks for solving basic algebra problems will have even the most mathphobic looking forward to working out what...
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What’s the point of learning math? Why is it so important that kids are exposed to mathematical thinking? And what do parents and teachers need to kno...
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Learn how to use absolute values to find distances between numbers and places. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2lPuJQ7
299 TMD How to Use Math to Fly Rockets to Space
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227 TMD Polygon Puzzle: How Many Degrees Are In a Polygon?
How many degrees are in the interior angles of a pentagon? Or a hexagon? An octagon? Or any polygon? Keep on listening to The Math Dude to learn how t...
298 TMD The Simple Math Behind Crunching the Sizes of Crowds
How large was the crowd at the recent U.S. presidential inauguration? Or the inauguration 8 years ago? Or at last Saturday’s Women’s March in Washingt...
226 TMD Math Tips for Smart Shopping
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250 TMD How to Measure Time Without a Stopwatch
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297 TMD 4 More FAQs About Percentages
How do you quickly calculate 25% of a number? Or 33% of a number? Or 50%? And how can you quickly calculate percentage increases? Keep on listening to...
193 TMD The 5 Steps of Problem Solving
Do "word problems" make you cower in fear? Do you ever find yourself stuck on math problems before you even get started? If so, keep on listening beca...
296 TMD How Many Gifts Are In the 12 Days of Christmas?
How many gifts should one's true love be given on each of the 12 Days of Christmas? If you stick to the recommendations from the classic song, the ans...
179 TMD Christmas Math 101
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295 TMD What Is the Probability that Alien Life Exists?
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127 TMD How to Quickly Calculate Percentages
Learn a quick and dirty tip to help you calculate pesky percentages in your head. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2h6A1rU
294 TMD How Are Turkeys and Extraterrestrials Related?
How many turkeys are consumed each year in the U.S. on Thanksgiving? And how many extraterrestrial civilizations might exist in the universe? Umm…wait...
134 TMD What Are Mixed Fractions?
Learn what mixed fractions are and find out how they're related to regular fractions.
293 TMD Why Were the 2016 U.S. Presidential Polls Wrong?
The 2016 U.S. presidential election is over. And if you'd been following the polls, the results might have been surprising. What went wrong with those...
206 TMD How Big Is the Universe?
The solar system is big, the distances between stars bigger, and the distance to the center of the galaxy in which we live is even bigger than that. B...
292 TMD How to Think About the Size of the Earth
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210 TMD 5 More Tips for Understanding Weights and Measures
How much is a gram? An ounce? Or a ton? If you don't have an intuitive feel for exactly how much mass these quantities represent, keep on listening! R...
291 TMD How Does Geometry Explain the Phases of the Moon?
What causes the Moon to change phases throughout the month? Why is it sometimes visible only during the day and other times only at night? What’s the...
221 TMD What Are Polygons? (Reissue)
What do a triangle, a rectangle, and a pentagon all have in common? They’re all polygons. What makes a polygon a polygon? And why do they matter? Keep...
290 TMD How to Win Every Bet
Richard Wiseman, author of 101 Bets You Will Always Win, joins Math Dude, to talk about how to use probability and mathematics to win bets. Read the f...
204 TMD What Is Angular Size?
How good are your eyes at seeing really tiny things that are really far away? How much better is the Hubble Space Telescope at doing the same thing? W...
289 TMD How to Use Geometry to Calculate the Size of Earth
Can you think of a way to measure the size of the Earth? Or the distance to the Sun? Or the nearest star? Want to know how ancient Greek mathematician...
257 TMD 3 Numerical Fun Facts About NFL Football
What do uniform numbers tell you about NFL players? How can you estimate how fast a wide-receiver is running? Read the full transcript here: http://bi...
288 TMD What Is a Light Year?
Do you know what a light year really measures? Do you know why so many people find it confusing? And why they shouldn’t? Keep on listening to find out...
197 TMD What Are the Odds of Successfully Navigating an Asteroid Field?
What are the odds of successfully flying through an astroid field like the one in the movie The Empire Strikes Back? Are they really 3,720 to 1 as sug...
287 TMD Why Are There Ties in Olympic Swimming?
Did you notice all the ties in the swimming events of this year's Olympics? Did you wonder why they didn't (or maybe couldn't) simply use more precise...
229 TMD How FOIL Can Help Your Math Skills
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286 TMD 5 Numerical Fun Facts About the Olympics
How fast do Olympic swimmers swim and Olympic sprinters sprint? How do these speeds compare to the speed at which you could race walk to the games? Or...
205 TMD How Big Is the Solar System?
How big are the planets of the Solar System compared to the enormous Sun at its center? How far would you have to travel to reach each of them? And ho...
285 TMD What Are Polynomials?
What are polynomials? How are they built? What can you do with them? And why are they important? Keep on listening to find out! Read the full transcri...
235 TMD Phone Keypad Number Puzzle
You know your phone’s keypad is arranged into three rows and three columns of numbers, but did you know there’s a pretty cool math puzzle hidden in th...
284 TMD 4 Numerical Fun Facts About the Juno Spacecraft
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211 TMD How to Use Google as a Calculator
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283 TMD How to Solve the Famous Coffee and Cream Puzzle
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231 TMD What Is a Nautical Mile?
Have you ever heard of a nautical mile? Have you ever wondered what in all the world’s oceans that could be? Keep on listening to The Math Dude to lea...
282 TMD How to Prove the Pythagorean Theorem
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234 TMD How to Estimate Hours Left Until Sunset
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281 TMD How to Think About Division: Part 2
What does it mean to divide an integer by a fraction? Or a positive number by a negative number? Or even a negative number by another negative number?...