Thursday, December 15, 2011


 Here are a few videos I made for a couple of my students. Yes, I realize that they need work, and I'm still nervous, so I make mistakes in fron t of the camera. (Note that when that happens, I will overlay text to clarify what I'm saying).


Here's a video where I describe how to very easily find the equation for a circle, using Pythagorean Theory. I then begin to describe how to relate a circle to an ellipse.









Here's the quick and dirty way to understand what the heck is the discriminant of a quadratic function.

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