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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 tr...
What’s the point of learning math? Why is it so important that kids are exposed to mathematical thinking? And what do parents and teachers n...
Learn how to use absolute values to find distances between numbers and places. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2lPuJQ7 Hosted o...
What does it really mean for a satellite to orbit the Earth? What’s the math behind it? And what’s the math behind the rockets that get thos...
How many degrees are in the interior angles of a pentagon? Or a hexagon? An octagon? Or any polygon? Keep on listening to The Math Dude to l...
How large was the crowd at the recent U.S. presidential inauguration? Or the inauguration 8 years ago? Or at last Saturday’s Women’s March i...
Would you rather get a 33% bigger coffee for no extra charge or pay 33% less for the regular size? Do you know how to avoid being tricked in...
How can you measure time without using a stopwatch? You could use the movement of the Sun across the sky, you could watch a pendulum swing,...
How do you quickly calculate 25% of a number? Or 33% of a number? Or 50%? And how can you quickly calculate percentage increases? Keep on li...
Do "word problems" make you cower in fear? Do you ever find yourself stuck on math problems before you even get started? If so, keep on list...
How many gifts should one's true love be given on each of the 12 Days of Christmas? If you stick to the recommendations from the classic son...
How long does Santa have to hang out when he's dropping presents off at your house? And how fast do his reindeer fly? Keep on listening to f...
Are we alone in the universe? If so, why? If not, where is everybody? Thankfully, math can help us with these astronomically profound questi...
Learn a quick and dirty tip to help you calculate pesky percentages in your head. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2h6A1rU Hoste...
How many turkeys are consumed each year in the U.S. on Thanksgiving? And how many extraterrestrial civilizations might exist in the universe...
Learn what mixed fractions are and find out how they're related to regular fractions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
The 2016 U.S. presidential election is over. And if you'd been following the polls, the results might have been surprising. What went wrong...
The solar system is big, the distances between stars bigger, and the distance to the center of the galaxy in which we live is even bigger th...
Do you have a good feel for the size of the Earth? If you’re like most people, you know that it’s big but you don’t have a sense for exactly...
How much is a gram? An ounce? Or a ton? If you don't have an intuitive feel for exactly how much mass these quantities represent, keep on li...
What causes the Moon to change phases throughout the month? Why is it sometimes visible only during the day and other times only at night? W...
What do a triangle, a rectangle, and a pentagon all have in common? They’re all polygons. What makes a polygon a polygon? And why do they ma...
Richard Wiseman, author of 101 Bets You Will Always Win, joins Math Dude, to talk about how to use probability and mathematics to win bets....
How good are your eyes at seeing really tiny things that are really far away? How much better is the Hubble Space Telescope at doing the sam...
Can you think of a way to measure the size of the Earth? Or the distance to the Sun? Or the nearest star? Want to know how ancient Greek mat...
What do uniform numbers tell you about NFL players? How can you estimate how fast a wide-receiver is running? Read the full transcript here:...
Do you know what a light year really measures? Do you know why so many people find it confusing? And why they shouldn’t? Keep on listening t...
What are the odds of successfully flying through an astroid field like the one in the movie The Empire Strikes Back? Are they really 3,720 t...
Did you notice all the ties in the swimming events of this year's Olympics? Did you wonder why they didn't (or maybe couldn't) simply use mo...
Have you heard of FOIL? Not the aluminum kind, but the one that can help your multiply faster? Keep on listening to The Math Dude to learn m...
How fast do Olympic swimmers swim and Olympic sprinters sprint? How do these speeds compare to the speed at which you could race walk to the...
How big are the planets of the Solar System compared to the enormous Sun at its center? How far would you have to travel to reach each of th...
What are polynomials? How are they built? What can you do with them? And why are they important? Keep on listening to find out! Read the ful...
You know your phone’s keypad is arranged into three rows and three columns of numbers, but did you know there’s a pretty cool math puzzle hi...
Did you hear the exciting news that NASA just successfully put the Juno spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter? Want to learn 4 super-cool num...
What's the cube root of 29? The sine of 55 degrees? Or the value of π/4? Do you need to search for your trusty calculator or pull out your p...
Summer is brain-teaser season in my house. And since summer has now officially arrived, it’s officially brain-teaser season for The Math Dud...
Have you ever heard of a nautical mile? Have you ever wondered what in all the world’s oceans that could be? Keep on listening to The Math D...
What does the Pythagorean Theorem tell us about triangles? Is it always true? And how can you prove this famous theorem arts-and-crafts styl...
Did you know that math can help you survive? I’m not talking about the jobs, money, and feeding yourself kind of surviving—I’m talking about...
What does it mean to divide an integer by a fraction? Or a positive number by a negative number? Or even a negative number by another negati...
How many degrees do the three angles of a triangle contain? They've got 180 of 'em, right? Why 180 and not some other number? And do all tri...
What does it really mean to divide two numbers? Or two variables? How can you visualize these processes? And how are they related to the pro...
What's the most important holiday in May? Obviously it's Mother's Day. Did you know there's an equation that can help you celebrate? Keep on...
What does it mean to multiply a positive number by a negative number? What does it mean to multiply two negative numbers? How about two vari...
Learn how to simplify the fractions in your life. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/1VGjSXN Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
What happens when you multiply one number by another? Is there a right answer to this question? What does it tell us about how you should th...
Learn what one-time pad encryption is, how it has been used throughout history, and how to use math to send your own encrypted messages. Que...
How can you quickly figure out how many games are needed to determine the winner of a tournament? What are the odds of predicting the winner...
What are the odds of winning the Mega Millions lottery jackpot and striking it rich? How long would you need to play before having a 50-50 c...
Do you really know what subtraction is? By which I mean do you really feel it in your gut? Here's part two of the series that will help you...