Mathematics Tutorial

Notice: These tutorials are meant to help people to enhance their math skills. They are not meant for people to skip learning basic math skills like the multiplication table or the standard methods of multiplication or long division.

How to Mentally Divide a Fraction in Half

One day, I watched a young man in his twenties measure with a tape measure across a hallway and tried to find the center. He used a pencil and paper to find half of the whole number and then counted the marks on the tape measure to divide the fraction by half. As I talked to young people today I have discovered that many can not perform the basics with a fraction.

This video will demonstrate a easy technique to which a person will be able to divide a fraction in half in his head. It also visually demonstrates why.

How to Square any Multiple of Five

Here is a video presentation on how to quickly and easily square multiples of five.