The Blog of The Video Math Tutor

My videomathtutor.com site is up and running again! Whew!

It looks like my videomathtutor.com website is more popular than I thought. It exceeded its bandwidth for the month. If you want to purchase DVDs, you will need to visit the mathpodcast.com site. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. All my videos are on YouTube and most other popular video sharing sites. I hope to take care of this problem as soon as possible. If I cannot, then you will have to wait until March 1st for my site to be up and running again. If this happens again in March, I will transfer my site to yahoo.com, which allows unlimited bandwidth usage.

My latest math lesson is *FINALLY* available for sale: “Algebra: Solving Linear Equations – Part 2: Applications.” Please visit http://videomathtutor.com/Algebra/alg-solvlineq2.html to order. It contains 180 minutes of video. 41 pages of printable notes. 4 DVD-R discs.

Price: $29.99

Welcome to the NEW Video Math Tutor Blog. I hope to share with you the latest tips and ideas I have related to mathematics and math education, PLUS the occasional rant, and hope others can share their views too! Be sure you subscribe to this blog, to be notified of any exciting news! Since this is a “family-friendly” site, I do need to approve all comments you post, so you may not see them posted here right away.

I had another blog, and frankly, was not too happy with it. I will transfer the old posts I had on it to this site. I hope you like this new one. At least you will be able to leave comments and post your own messages here, plus even embed movies. I do reserve the right to delete any post/video I deem offensive or is a direct competitor to my videos (videos from other tutors may be posted on my PrivateMathTutors.com Blog)

Luis Anthony Ast,
The Video Math Tutor
Blog Administrator

This collection of Video Flash Cards helps you learn the letters of the Greek alphabet. Both upper and lower case letters are covered. Several printable worksheets are provided as a bonus. The "cards" should be useful to students of mathematics, physics, astronomy, Greek and for new pledges of fraternities or sororities.

File Size: 81.5 Megabytes — Download Sample Video Flash Cards: Sample 1 • Sample 2

Price: $4.99

To order, go HERE

I just finished revamping my much neglected mobile website. I hope those with video capable phones will like the new look.

The “Official” URL is: m.videomathtutor.com/ but that will just re-direct you to the actual link:

http://videomathtutor.websiteforever.mobi/

I am slowly changing the YouTube videos I have embeded here to those I have on blip.tv. Why? Well, I will keep YouTube videos on my videomathtutor.com site, but many schools block YouTube, so I decided to make blip.tv the host of the embeded videos for THIS site. As of today, I changed the Video Brain Teasers here, and will follow up with the rest of the videos in the coming days.

This is a collection of the first 58 Video Brain Teasers that have been posted here individually on this website (and elsewhere). These consist of recreational mental puzzles/problems dealing with the arrangement of matchsticks, coins, and other items. Also included is a pencil drawing game, a riddle, many Optical Illusions, a "Hidden Image" problem, a "Lateral Thinking" puzzle, and quite a few "Find the Twin" problems.

The puzzles on the Video DVD do not have the background music, only the individual puzzles in .M4V format have it in the DVD-ROM folder.

40 minutes of video. 18 pages of "Find the Twins" Puzzles in PDF Format.
1 DVD-R disc.

DVD Price: $14.99 – VOD Price: $9.99

For more details, click HERE.

It took me quite a while, but I *FINALLY* was able to upgrade my mathpodcast.com website (mirror site on my MobileMe account). I used iWeb to originally create it, but when I got iWeb 2, well… it pretty much screwed up all my files on my yahoo.com server. So I had to start over and redo about 90% of the site. I was able to salvage most of the main pages, and just did minor changes to them.

The good news is that I was able to add a few “bells and whistles” I did not have before, so I hope you all like the changes.

Another thing I should be able to do is to make more frequent Blog updates, and it will be easier for me to add new content using iWeb 2.

I decided to use smaller videos (iPod size) so that the videos use less memory on my laptop (and yours!). If you need larger ones, you can get those by watching the YouTube versions or, better yet, by purchasing my DVDs that include higher quality versions of my lessons. Remember, YOUR support allows me to create MORE videos! Don’t forget to support my advertisers too!

I feel like a kid in a candy store! I have Maple 13 now!

Eventually, I hope to create special “how-to” videos so that others can learn how to use this incredible software. I have been a Maple user since the mid-90’s.