Great courses (DVD)

Course number 1443

Harness the brain's most powerful faculty to solve math problems with ease

24 lectures (30 min. each)

Lecturer: James S. Tanton

DVD, all regions

In English

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