Summer of Math Exposition

Presented by 3Blue1Brown 3blue1brown

The math operation without a name

A new (easier?) way of doing System of Linear Equations by using a new math operator that as far as I know does not have a name. This would be especially useful for teachers trying to help students learn System of Linear Equations


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4.97 Overall score*
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13 Votes
7 Comments

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3.9
Repeated emphasis of the target audience and naming convention undermines the subject at hand and more than satisfactory explanations.
5
the video is showing a way of thinking, but never let the viewer try for them self an then let us try this method, nice way of thinking but I think the SoME is more about thinking and the video didn't really intrigued me
5.8
This is well-motivated and clear, but it is meant as a pedagogical tool for early high school, not directed at math enthusiasts. Also, as the creator mentions at the end of the video, the method he describes is not new - only not widely used.
6.8
Beautifully animated. Regarding words for 'un-add', my suggestion would be 'split'. Splitting a number into 2 parts intuitively feels like a additive split, rather than a multiplicative split or any other split, at least to me. All that said, while I could follow your un-add solutions, and they were much easier to follow in ones head than the system of equations, I am still a bit fuzzy about what the Un-Add method is. How exactly do you pick what to split and how to split it? If that choice is coming intuitively to a person, great. But otherwise, the system of linear equations may be easier since it does not need that insight.
3.2
I suggest getting a better microphone and using animations in your videos.
1
It was not for me
4.7
I like it. It has a similar feeling to the way East Asians are taught to solve algebraic equations before learning manipulation of variables though representations like a tape diagram. Much more intuitive for children to deal with in a transition to algebra. You might look at Cognitively Guided Instruction materials for a label of "unadding". They describe a variety of structures for addition and subtraction type problems. I think this would fall under "Part-part-whole".