Subtracting Fractions: Subtracting Fractions With Different Denominators
This clip explains that subtracting fractions with different denominators requires first writing the two fractions with a common denominator. Once the numerators are determined, it is simply a matter of subtracting the smaller from the larger and ex...
Subtracting Fractions: Subtracting Fractions With the Same Denominator
This clip explains that subtracting fractions which have the same denominator simply requires that the smaller of the numerators be subtracted from the larger of the numerators, all over the denominator.
Length: Shortcut For Converting Metric Units, A
This clip explains that, instead of using a unit conversion factor to solve a problem, the student can use the decimal method, which the clip calls "a shortcut." "When we convert from metric to U.S. units," the clip notes, "we can use the shortcut b...
Measurement and Unit Conversion: Exercises in Unit Conversion and Cancellation Involving Weeks and Days
This clip presents problems involving the unit equivalence for weeks and days. In the first of these, the clip states that, "
we are converting from 91 days to an equivalent number of weeks
We will convert the units by multiplying two fractions." ...
Length: Converting Meters to Feet and Kilometers to Miles
This clip presents practical problems in which meters must be converted to feet, and kilometers must be converted to miles. In the first problem, the student must determine how many feet of telephone cord are on a 100-meter roll. "We'll use the deci...
Length: Practical Problems: Converting Between the U.S. Customary and Metric Systems
This clip presents three practical problems based on converting between the U.S. Customary and Metric Systems. In the first two problems, an equivalence is used to write a transition factor, which is the only factor needed. In the third problem, an ...
Length: Converting Inches to Yards, Feet to Miles, and Miles to Inches
This clip presents a variety of unit conversion problems which the student is first asked to write in equation form. The student is then instructed to write out fractions using the appropriate equivalence in each case. After cancellation, the studen...
Length: Converting Units of Length Within the U.S. Customary System
This clip presents the basic units of length in the U.S. Customary System, as well as the equivalences for these units. The clip also includes a practical problem involving chain-link fencing that can be solved using these equivalences.
Multiplying Fractions: Summary: Multiplying Fractions
This clip summarizes multiplying fractions, touching on a number of the main rules that apply, revisiting the value of dividing through (or "canceling"), and finally discussing the conversion of mixed numbers to imperfect fractions and back again.
Angles, Arcs and Sectors: Angles, Circles and Sectors
This clip looks at the sector, a fraction of a circle's area formed by a central angle and its arc. "We can find the area of a sector," the clips explains, "
by multiplying the ratio of the central angle to the circle by the area of the circle."