Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Youtube as a Study Tool!


The link I attached to this post is a youtube video about finding the derivative of trigonometric functions.  It shows step-by-step instructions of how to find the derivative of the tan function.  What I really like is that the teacher reviews the derivatives of sin and cos because as we already know tan = sin/cos.  This is great because it helps the students better understand the concept behind why the derivative is what it is instead of just memorizing the answer. I used youtube a great deal when I was taking calculus because the great thing about youtube that you can get in the classroom is you can pause and rewind the video when you need clarification.  When I was taking calculus I would watch youtube while doing my homework so I could get step-by-step instructions of how to do the problems.  After doing a few problems I was able to understand the different steps need to solve the problems and this made me very successful in the class.  I highly recommend youtube to anyone struggling in math because they have videos for everything I can think of and it really does help a great deal when it comes to understanding the different steps of computation.

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