Title:
The power of mathematical visualization / Professor James S. Tanton.
ISBN:
9781629973289
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2016]
©2016
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Course no. 1443.
24 lectures (30 min. each)
"Subtopic: Mathematics"--Container.
DVD, all regions.
Contents:
Disc 1. Lecture 1. Power of a mathematical picture -- Lecture 2. Visualizing negative numbers -- Lecture 3. Visualizing ratio word problems -- Lecture 4. Visualizing extraordinary ways to multiply -- Lecture 5. Visualizing area formulas -- Lecture 6. Power of place value -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Pushing long division to new heights -- Lecture 8. Pushing long division to infinity -- Lecture 9. Visualizing decimals -- Lecture 10. Pushing the picture of fractions -- Lecture 11. Visualizing mathematical infinities -- Lecture 12. Surprise! The fractions take up no space -- Disc 3. Lecture 13. Visualizing probability -- Lecture 14. Visualizing combinatorics: art of counting -- Lecture 15. Visualizing Pascal's triangle -- Lecture 16. Visualizing random movement, orderly effect -- Lecture 17. Visualizing orderly movement, random effect -- Lecture 18. Visualizing the Fibonacci numbers -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Visuals of graphs -- Lecture 20. Symmetry: revitalizing quadratics graphing -- Lecture 21. Symmetry: revitalizing quadratics algebra -- Lecture 22. Visualizing balance points in statistics -- Lecture 23. Visualizing fixed points -- Lecture 24. Bringing visual mathematics together.
Summary:
Harness the brain's most powerful faculty to solve math problems with ease.
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Language Note:
In English.
Performer:
Lecturer: James S. Tanton.
OCLC Number:
ocn965865940
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