Mathtrain.TV Podcast

Find the volume inside the cylinder, but outside the sphere. Part of the student-created tutorial project at Mathtrain.TV. Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational “kids teaching kids” project from Mr. Marcos and his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.   StudentCreated.TV is a free site for sharing student-created tutorials for all school subjects. Both sites […]

A mini-review of multiplying exponents. Part of the student-created tutorial project at Mathtrain.TV. Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational “kids teaching kids” project from Mr. Marcos and his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.   StudentCreated.TV is a free site for sharing student-created tutorials for all school subjects. Both sites are mobile-enabled.

Let’s take a visual look at the area of a circle. Part of the student-created tutorial project at Mathtrain.TV. Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational “kids teaching kids” project from Mr. Marcos and his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.   StudentCreated.TV is a free site for sharing student-created tutorials for all school subjects. Both […]

Shane, a 7th grader, show us the vertical line test for functions.  She created this tutorial on her iPad, using the free ScreenChomp app. It’s our 7th Anniversary month!  Yay! Part of the student-created tutorial project at Mathtrain.TV. Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational “kids teaching kids” project from Mr. Marcos and his Students at Lincoln Middle […]

Middle school student Shane shows us a Simple Interest problem.  She created this tutorial using the free ScreenChomp app on her iPad and Camtasia Studio was later used for adding the pop ups.   Part of the student-created tutorial project at Mathtrain.TV. Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational “kids teaching kids” project from Mr. Marcos and […]

Middle school student, “Shane”, shows us how to find the circumference of a circle. Part of the Mathtrain.TV “kids teaching kids” project from Eric Marcos and his Students at Lincoln Middle School, in Santa Monica, CA. (music score written & performed by E. Marcos)

Find the LCM and GCF using the ladder method, with 7th grader Kermit. Part of the student-created tutorial project at Mathtrain.TV. Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational “kids teaching kids” project from Mr. Marcos and his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.   Mathtrain.TV now plays on mobile devices, including iPads & iPhones. StudentCreated.TV is […]

7th grader, “Kermit”, returns to show us some fun with multiplication. She recorded this by herself and edited it. Mathtrain.TV now plays on mobile devices, including iPads & iPhones!  StudentCreated.TV is a free site for sharing student-created tutorials for all school subjects!  Videos also play on mobile devices.

“Poseidon”, a 6th grader, shows us some statistics of Mean, Median, Mode and Range.  This tutorial was created on an iPad, using Doceri. Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV Project Mathtrain.TV now plays on mobile devices, including iPads & iPhones! StudentCreated.TV is a free site for sharing student-created tutorials for all school subjects!  Videos also play on mobile […]

“Shane” is a sixth-grader & created this tutorial on her iPad, using the free ScreenChomp app.  “Shane” shows us some things w/integers. Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV Project Mathtrain.TV videos now play on mobile devices, including iPads & iPhones! StudentCreated.TV is a free site for sharing student-created tutorials for all school subjects!  It is open to the […]

Sixth grader, “Poseidon”, makes his debut with a video tutorial on the Pythagorean Theorem.  He used his iPad and an app called, Doceri, to create this screencast. Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV Project. NEWS UPDATE: Mathtrain.TV has been upgraded.  Videos now play on mobile devices, including iPads and iPhones! Coming soon, StudentCreated.TV, a free site […]

“Justin”, a 6th grader, makes her debut and shows us how to estimate fractions when multiplying (and dividing).  Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV Project.

Sixth grader, “Selena”, makes her debut and teaches us how to multiply fractions!  Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV project.

Student, 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.

Student using the new MakeyMakey kit creates a paper piano.

While 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?“.

“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.

Let’s have some fun and create a tessellation!   Part of the student-created Mathtrain.TV project.

Debut 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.

A 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 […]

6th 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.

“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.

An algebra student had this question for homework.  This is a tutorial for a completing the square problem from Mathtrain.TV.

A 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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

Screencasting on the iPad!  For Free! In this episode, the ScreenChomp App is showcased.   It is meant as a rough “tutorial” and mainly as an introduction to the possibilities we might have using this with our students.    

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/.

A quick look at how easy it is to create cylinders and prisms in Google SketchUp (free). http://sketchup.google.com/

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

The Mathtrain App is now available in the iTunes Store. Yup, it’s free. Created by 8th grade student, Andrew Rothman.

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!

This is a remix (we added music) of our 2nd student-created mathcast which aired in 2007.  “Billy Billy” was not her real name.  She picked this name as her alias just after “Bob” picked her alias.

Simple Interest in the setting of banking. We are trying this one out in HD.

Here is a look at how to figure out “percent of a number” problems using a proportion.

Watch 6th grader, papatom, explain how to find percents.

Let’s find which is the better buy!  We will find the unit price (unit rate) to compare the two items.

Another look at metric conversions.

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

This special episode of Mathtrain.TV is a partial rebroadcast of a TechSmith show called, The Forge. In this rebroadcast, Matt Pierce is joined by Dave McCollom (both of TechSmith fame) and they discuss different ways to screencast. Specifically, they focus on various input devices one can use to create screencasts. We are extra excited, because […]

“Vincent” makes her debut.  She shows us how to work with an inequality problem.

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.

This is a quick video showing the ingredients we use to create our screencasts here at Mathtrain.TV.

This is just a test video to try something new… perhaps. Hopefully this video will be viewable on the ipad and iphone.  And hopefully it shows up in itunes.

This episode was created for fun.  The students like strange, new things.  So here is something for that.  It is a short, animated promo for Mathtrain. We created this using the free xtranormal software.  Xtranormal could have some nice uses in the classroom or for student projects! Enjoy!

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

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 […]