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 whatever math problem comes their way. If you're getting ready to take the SAT, GRE, or any of the other standardized tests; or if you're going back to school and need to brush up on the basics, Math Dude's Quick and Dirty Tips to Make Math Easier will strengthen your fundamental skills and help you understand the language of math. And if you just want to calculate the tip without using your iPhone and impress all your friends, his tips and tricks are for you too.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 299
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2017
066 TMD How to Calculate How Fast Your Money Will Grow
Learn what recurring investments are, how to use the compound interest formula to calculate how much money they make, and how you can calculate how fast your money will grow.
065 TMD What is a Mathematical Series?
Learn what mathematical series are, why they're important, and how you can visually picture the meaning of some series.
064 TMD How to Use the Compound Interest Formula
Learn how to use the compound interest formula and how it's related to the rule of 72.
063 TMD What is the Compound Interest Formula?
Learn what the compound interest formula is, how it's related to exponents, and how it can help you make money.
012 TMD Use the Power of Ten Percent to Easily Calculate How Much to Tip
Learn how to use the power of ten percent, and not your calculator, to easily and quickly calculate how much to tip. Questions go to [email protected] or 206-339-6279. Like what you hear…
062 TMD What are Exponents?
Learn what exponents are, how to write them, how they are related to the words squared and cubed, and why there's an exponent controversy.
061 TMD How to Use the Rule of 72 to Find the Time it Takes to Double Your Money
Learn what the rule of 72 is and how you can use it to estimate how long it will take you to double your investment.
044 TMD How to Multiply Quickly
Learn what the distributive property means in the real world and how it can help you perform lightning fast multiplication in your head. Questions go to [email protected] or 206-339-6279…
060 TMD What is the Associative Property?
Learn what the associative properties of addition and multiplication are, and how they can help speed up arithmetic.
059 TMD What is a Mobius Strip?
Learn what Mobius strips are, how to make them, and why they are such strange and interesting objects.
058 TMD How to Tell If a Number is Divisible by 7, 8, or 9
Learn how to test if a number is divisible by 7, 8, or 9, and find out why each of these divisibility tests actually work.
057 TMD How to Tell If a Number is Divisible by 4, 5, or 6
Learn how to test if a number is divisible by 4, 5, or 6, and find out why each of these divisibility tests actually work.
056 TMD How to Tell If a Number is Divisible by 2 or 3
Learn how to test if a number is divisible by 2 or 3, and find out why each of these divisibility tests actually work.
055 TMD How to Calculate the Day of the Week of Any Date
Learn how to use the connection between modular arithmetic and remainders in division to calculate the day of the week of any date.
054 TMD How is Modular Arithmetic Related to Remainders in Division?
Learn more about performing modular arithmetic, how it's related to finding remainders in division, and how it can help you predict the future.
053 TMD What is Modular Arithmetic?
Learn what modular arithmetic is, how to perform modular arithmetic, and how modular arithmetic is used in the real world.
052 TMD How to Convert Repeating Decimals to Fractions, Part 3
Learn the final trick that will enable you to convert any type of repeating decimal into a fraction.
051 TMD How to Convert Repeating Decimals to Fractions, Part 2
Learn how to convert more complicated repeating decimals from decimal to fractional form.
050 TMD How to Convert Repeating Decimals to Fractions, Part 1
Learn what repeating decimal numbers are and how to convert simple repeating decimals from decimal to fractional form.
049 TMD How to Convert Decimals to Fractions, Part 1
Learn what terminating and repeating decimals are and how to convert these rational numbers from decimal to fractional form.