Summer of Math Exposition

You have great visuals and an even better sense of humour, which is seldom found in exposition videos but makes the watching experience so much more enjoyable.

Having said that, some of the solutions to the problems felt a little bit rushed. At times I had to pause and go back to figure out what you had said (maybe I’m just not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I figure that if I had to do it, someone else probably had to do it too). Feel free to linger on the solutions a little longer, and allow yourself to pause a little between crucial sentences to allow everything to sink in.

I’m not a teacher officially, but I do have a few younger students that I mentor, and I’d love to show them the problems in this video!

Nicely done animations and the creative solutions are interesting. I think six problems is a lot to cover without transitions or an overarching theme, so I would’ve liked to spend more time on slightly harder problems instead of six easier ones. That said, I think this is a good way to introduce the style of creative thinking that is used in math / problem solving.

very unique

I didn’t really feel motivated by this video, although some of the problems presented and solved were quite interesting. For the probability problem (capture), the solution was explained too quickly, and some important steps were skipped. The animations and sound effects were a bit overwhelming, which made it harder to stay focused on the content.

The geometry problem is wrong, that with the opposite vertices are equidistance from O,and opposite triangles are equal in area implies opposite sides are equal.

OK, so first of all, the visual production values are excellent. Instead of picking one clever puzzle, motivating and analysing it, the video rushes through 6 of them. I found it hard to persevere until the end. If the target audience is students, I think that you could do a better job taking them along on the journey.

Animation and narration was great! And I think you did pick some parts of math that are relatively simple but overlooked some by standard education. I think, however, that it might have been better to just focus on one problem - like the prisoner problem. I think there’s a potential a student might watch this video and mistakenly think the problem solving tools you are demonstrating are just tricks they need to memorize to solve very particular problems. Maybe if you just focused on one you could really let the solution breath and demonstrate more how the trick used is actually a very powerful tool that can help solve problems all over mathematics. Maybe trying to get the idea across that these tricks are not random things to be memorized but different perspectives on problem solving that can be super useful!