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How Do You Find the Area of a Trapezoid?
Trapezoids can be tricky! Break down the process of finding the area of a trapezoid with an engaging math video. Learners explore area formula and shown exactly how to plug in information, solve, and simplify.
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What are Perpendicular Lines?
Perpendicular lines intersect to form right angles - four of them to be exact. Vertical angles, congruent angles, 90 degrees each, these are some of the special properties of perpendicular lines. Watch this video to find out a couple...
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What are Complementary Angles?
Supplementary, obtuse, acute, complementary angles. It's good to know what all of these mean, but let's focus on one at a time. Complementary angles always add up to 90 degrees. So if given one angle in a complementary angle problem, the...
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What is a Cone?
What are the things that make a shape a cone? Here's a list of things that define a cone: base, height, vertex, radius, curved side. Are you familiar with all these terms? The teacher diagrams a cone and identifies all the components in...
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How Do You Determine if a Triangle Is a Right Triangle if You Know its Sides?
Use the Pythagorean Theorem formula to check if this given triangle, with the given lengths of each side, is a right triangle. It's as simple as plugging the given values into the formula and doing the math to see if the solution checks...
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How Do You Solve a Problem Using Indirect Measurement with Shadows?
Using indirect measurement, this video shows viewers how to find the height of a flagpole. The lecturer employs drawings as well as proportions to solve this problem, explaining each step. A useful resource to aid struggling learners and...
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How Do You Solve a Problem Using Indirect Measurement with Shadows?
Using indirect measurement, this video shows viewers how to find the height of a flagpole. The lecturer employs drawings as well as proportions to solve this problem, explaining each step. A useful resource to aid struggling learners and...
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How Do You Find the Area of a Trapezoid?
Trapezoids can be tricky. Break down the process of finding the area of a trapezoid with this video! Viewers are given information about the area formula and shown exactly how to plug in information, solve, and simplify. This is a...
Virtual Nerd
How Was the Distance Formula Derived?
Are you working on the distance formula? Derive the distance formula and help your learners by showing them the logic behind the distance formula. This practical video should help conceptual understanding and is appropriate for in-class...
Corbett Maths
Types of Angle
Angle in on the different types of angles. By watching an informative video, scholars see how to classify angles. It covers acute, right, obtuse, straight, and reflex angles. Some example problems focus on classifying angles given their...
Corbett Maths
Angles: Right Angle
The right measure is often hard to find. Given a diagram of two angles that make up a right angle and one of their measures, scholars learn how to find the other angle measure. They watch a video that explains the process and covers a...
Corbett Maths
Estimating Angles
Sometimes, exact measurements aren't necessary. Scholars learn to estimate the measure of angles by watching a useful video. The method employed here is to use 90-, 180-, and 270-degree angles as benchmarks, adding or subtracting as...
Socratica
Introduction to Angles Using Degrees
What's your angle? Individuals learn how angles are measured by watching a video in the Socratica Geometry series. The video explains acute, right, obtuse, and straight angles.
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How Do You Find the Tangent of an Angle in a Right Triangle?
What's a trigonometric ratio? It is a ratio between two sides of a right triangle. In this problem, find tangent(A) in the given right triangle. Use the ratio of the opposite side divided by the adjacent side to find tan(A). The...
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How Do You Find the Volume of a Cone?
The formula to find the volume of a cone is volume equals one-third times the base times the height. The base can be found by using the formula to find the area of a circle: base equals pi times radius squared. So it seems that the area...
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How Do You Find the Slant Height of a Cone?
Use the Pythagorean theorem formula to find the slant height of a cone. If the height of the cone and the radius of the base are given, using the Pythagorean theorem formula will be a piece of cake. Just plug in the values given and solve.
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How Do You Find the Height of a Triangle if You Know the Area and Base?
Use the formula for the area of a triangle to find the height of the triangle. If the problem gives the value of the area and the value of the base, then the height can be found using the formula for the area of a triangle. The...
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How Do You Use Complementary Angles to Find a Missing Angle?
Are complementary angles nice to each other? That's not what complementary means in math. Complementary angles are two angles that add up to 90 degrees and form a right triangle. So if given one value in a problem about complementary...
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What is a Rectangle?
What are the characteristics and properties of a quadrilateral that make it a rectangle? Four sides? Right angles? Parallel sides? Watch this video and follow along as the instructor explains the terms and properties that make a...
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What is a Parallelogram?
A rectangle, a rhombus, a square, a trapezoid - are any of these a parallelogram? What are the criteria that make a shape a parallelogram? It has something to do with parallel sides, congruent sides, and congruent angles. Help your young...
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How Do You Find a Missing Side of a Right Triangle Using Sine?
What's a trigonometric ratio? It is a ratio between two sides of a right triangle. In this problem, find sin(A) in the given right triangle. Use the ratio of the opposite side divided by the hypotenuse to find sin(A). The instructor...
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Right Angles
This episode of Kung Fu Math reviews what a right angle is and where it can be found in everyday life. The right angle is compared to particularly strong moves found in martial arts. This is a very interesting clip which clearly...
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How Do You Classify Quadrilaterals?
A rectangle, a rhombus, a square, a trapezoid, and a parallelogram, are these quadrilaterals? What are the criteria that make and shape a quadrilateral? It has something to do with parallel sides, congruent sides, and congruent angles....
Math TV
Math tv.com: Trigonometric Functions: Angles, Degress, and Special Triangles
Students learn about the notation and vocabulary associated with angles and triangles. The learning resource consists of a video tutorial and a worksheet with practice problems. In the left hand menu, click Trigonometry, Trigonometric...