Virtual Nerd: How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using Inverse Variation?

Don't panic! There is a pretty simple straightforward formula to solve this problem. Some of the words are a bit overwhelming: indirect variation, inverse, constant of variation, indirect proportionality. But one simple formula and just...

Use word problems to teach systems of equations! The instructor in this video demonstrates how to solve a word problem using a system of equations and the elimination by subtraction method. She goes through each step, carefully...

Have your class figure out how much "Teddy" weighs on the moon and how to translate words into algebra! This video shows pupils how to take a word problem, and then solve it using the direct variation formula and given information. Great...

Watch this tutorial to see how to use a function from the word problem to solve it. [2:28]

This tutorial shows you how to use a word problem to create a table and identify a pattern. Watch how to create an exponential function from the data and solve the function to get your answer. [7:55]

Discover how to take a word problem, turn it into a percent proportion, then solve for the answer using the mean extremes property of proportions. [2:38]

This tutorial illustrates how to turn a word problem into a compound inequality and solve that compound inequality to get the answer. [6:14]

After reading this inequality word problem, young learners might just skip over it and not even make the attempt to solve it. It seems rather complicated. So watch this video as the teacher explains all that needs to be done to solve...

Yes, it's a word problem but you have all the information you need to solve it. You have a formula, and they have given you a value to plug in. So get to it and write out the formula, plug in the value and solve this word problem.

How tall is tall? Well, here's a word problem that when the solution is found will show how tall, tall is. Two years ago, Brad was five and a half feet tall, which was only 2/3 of how tall he is now. Oh my, he is going to be really tall....