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TED-Ed
Can You Solve the Seven Planets Riddle?
Can you use math and logic to beat the bad guys? You can in space! Take an intergalactic trip into a seedy and speedy crime syndicate with the Seven Planets Riddle, which challenges two interstellar police officers to use deductive...
TED-Ed
Can You Solve the Fish Riddle?
Riddles are a great way to encourage learners to develop their logical thinking skills, and the fish riddle offers the perfect challenge. Viewers must determine how to rescue a series of tanks containing an endangered species of fish.
Khan Academy
Polynomial Divided by Monomial, Polynomial and Rational Functions, Algebra I
Let's think about how a person could simplify an expression where a polynomial is divided by a monomial. Sal shares three different modes he could use to simplify, then uses each way to solve the same problem.
Khan Academy
Vi and Sal Explore How We Think About Scale, Algebra II
Why do people perceive a bigger difference between the numbers one and two than between the numbers 1001 and 1002? In this interesting video, Sal is accompanied by Vi Hart. They talk about how we tend to think according to the...
TED-Ed
Can You Solve the Prisoner Hat Riddle?
You've been abducted by aliens! The good news: they don't eat collaborative and logical beings. The bad news: You need to prove that you are capable of working together with your fellow captives to solve a logic riddle. Enjoy a video...
TED-Ed
Can You Solve the Giant Cat Army Riddle?
Dr. Schrodinger, the rat, has set a trap for anyone trying to destroy the growth ray he is using to create giant cats to attack the city. Viewers are challenged to escape his trap and save humanity in this rather complex math riddle.
Khan Academy
Vi and Sal Talk About the Mysteries of Benford's Law, Logarithms, Algebra II
Challenge your students to explain why this interesting mathematical law works! Sal, accompanied by Vi Hart, demonstrates BenfordÕs Law. They challenge the listeners to see if they can intuitively explain why this law fairly accurately...
Khan Academy
Vi and Sal Talk About the Mysteries of Benford's Law, Logarithms, Algebra II
Challenge your students to explain why this interesting mathematical law works! Sal, accompanied by Vi Hart, demonstrates BenfordÕs Law. They challenge the listeners to see if they can give an intuitive reason why this law fairly...
Khan Academy
Converting Fahrenheit to Celsius, Pre-Algebra
Sal teaches students how to convert a temperature in Fahrenheit to its equivalent temperature in Celsius. He is explicit and very clear, which is suitable for those needing additional assistance or exposure to a particular topic.
TED-Ed
Can You Outsmart This Logical Fallacy?
The more detailed a story is, the more you should believe it—right? This fallacy, known as the conjunction fallacy, takes advantage of your brain's tendency to conflate plausibility and probability. A short and engaging video explains...
Khan Academy
Ferris Wheel Trig Problem
The next time you are at an amusement park you may want to consider all the interesting math problems you could do! Using trigonometric ratios, some logic and algebra, Sal solves a problem in this video of finding a person's height off...
Crash Course
Symbolic AI: Crash Course AI #10
If you think logically, AI is all about symbols. An instructional video explains the development of symbolic artificial intelligence. Viewers see how AI translates problems of interest into symbols and then apply propositional logic to...
TED-Ed
Can You Solve the Penniless Pilgrim Riddle?
The Penniless Pilgrim riddle challenges viewers to find a tax-free path through a matrix of city streets to reach a temple. The good news is that the video includes a solution for befuddled riddlers.
Crash Course
The Medieval Islamicate World: Crash Course History of Science #7
The Medieval Islamicate World was truly a world of wonders! Clocks with gears, armillary spheres ... and robots that played music? Journey to ancient Baghdad, the center of science and math with the seventh video in a History of Science...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: The Towers of Hanoi: Experiential Recursive Thinking
After viewing video components, students use manipulatives to work with the famous Towers of Hanoi problem. The goal is for learners to begin to understand recursive logic and thinking, relevant to computer scientists, mathematicians,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Representing Volume of Right Rectangular Prisms Unit Cubes
Use spatial reasoning skills to calculate the volume when given a 3D figure. [1:49]