Download Math Matters Episodes

EPISODE ONE:  Full / Transcript (PDF)

• Introduction
• Venn diagrams (Resource management)
• Exponent rules (Compound interest and the Rule of Seventy)

EPISODE TWO: Transcript (PDF)

• Logic (Understanding the English Language)
• Factoring (Solving for unknowns in area problems)
• Rational expressions (Solving for unknowns in area problems)

EPISODE THREE: Transcript (PDF)

• Logical fallacies (Spotting bad arguments)
• Tessellations (Part 1) (Home improvement projects with tile)
• Tessellations (Part 2) 

EPISODE FOUR: Transcript (PDF)

• Probability and counting (Lottery likelihoods)
• Unit conversion (Finding equivalent amounts in different units)
• Radical expressions (Finding average growth rates) 

EPISODE FIVE: Transcript (PDF)

• Expected value (Average winnings when playing the lottery)
• Finding polynomials through a point (Modeling real data)
• Slope of a line (Calculating average rates of change) 

EPISODE SIX: Transcript (PDF)

• Surface area (Home improvement projects with paint)
• Complex numbers (Video-game design)
• Inequalities (Optimization problems with constraints) 

EPISODE SEVEN: Transcript (PDF)

• Graphs of data (Misleading tables and graphs)
• Volume (Home improvement projects with concrete)
• Quadratic formula (Solving non-factorable quadratic equations)

EPISODE EIGHT: Transcript (PDF)

• Similar and congruent triangles (Hard-to-measure distances)
• Different-base numerals (Understanding your computer)
• Piecewise functions (Modeling non-continuous situations)

EPISODE NINE: Transcript (PDF)

• Normal distributions (Statistical models)
• Divisibility theorems (Developing a number sense)
• Number of polynomial solutions and end behavior (Modeling volume) 

EPISODE TEN: Transcript (PDF)

• Consumer mathematics (Paying off credit card debt)
• Circles and Pythagorean theorem (Finding yourself on a map)
• Exponential and logarithmic functions (Solving the boiling-water myth)

EPISODE ELEVEN: Transcript (PDF)

• Amortized loans (Monthly mortgage payments)
• Least common divisor (Using fractions)
• Systems of two linear equations (Two equations, two unknowns)

EPISODE TWELVE: Transcript (PDF)

• More on credit card debt (The actual price of financed items)
• Matrix multiplication (Resource management)
• Systems of three linear equations (Three equations, three unknowns)

EPISODE THIRTEEN: Transcript (PDF)

• Matrix multiplication (Complicated probabilities)
  
• Matrix multiplication (Tracking populations by age group)
  
• Population models (Unrestricted and restricted growth models)

EPISODE FOURTEEN: Full / Transcript (PDF)

• Annuities (Investment strategies)
• Fair division (Estate settlements)
• Wrap-up