Pbs Learning Media: Solving the Sphinx's Fraction Problem

In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must locate a crystal with the highest fraction of orange color.

Your rich uncle just died and left all of his money to you. However, your evil relatives want some of the prize. Luckily, your uncle taught you everything you need to know about riddles, and has hidden his money. Can you solve...

Students are taught to look for patterns in solving mathematical problems. Starting in the lower grades, they learn that math problems can be decomposed and recomposed without its value changing (the distributive property). In these...

The zombies are charging and it is your job to get your party safely across the bridge. Are you up for the challenge?

You're trapped in a dark castle with a pile of gold coins that a wizard will only allow you to leave with if you can solve his riddle. Math learners solve the riddle of the dark coin with the help of an engaging instructional video.

Explores the concept that subtraction is merely addition by adding the opposite and provides a trick to help with adding and subtracting long strings of numbers. [5:41]

In this video (3:09), life-size replicas help demonstrate one-dimensional scaling and the ratio relationship between two real-world quantities. The accompanying classroom activity helps students understand how ratios and proportions can...

A vicious airborne virus is about to leak out of your lab, and it is up to you to stop it. Once entering a contaminated room, you destroy it, preventing you from leaving the room the same way you entered. Challenge your class to solve...

Wicked and Digit must solve a fraction problem in order to free the CyberSquad in this video from Cyberchase.

Learn about the competitive sport of fencing along with the resulting mathematical problems and equivalent expressions that help determine the number of matches played per tournament in this video from the Center for Asian American...