How to Read Math
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
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Lots of people find mathematical equations intimidating because they don't make sense. But they are not hard to understand if you follow a few steps, anyone can learn to read them. And it is well worth it because they are so incredibly useful to describe everything in math and physics. If you already know I'm sure you know someone who might like this video, I'm going to send it to my family who are less mathematically inclined than me.
The steps you need to know are: 1. Find the variables, 2. Work out what all of the different mathematical symbols mean, 3. Wok out what order you would perform the mathematical operations if you were going to plug numbers in to the equations. These steps really help you get your head around what an equation is telling you. Also, don't be scared about the greek letters, they do just the same thing as normal letters, they either represent constants or variables.
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This is a cheat sheet with a lot of the basic mathematical notation you will come across in popular science.
This ties in with a youtube video which you can watch here: • How to Read Math
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I have a bachelor's degree in mathematics. What am I doing here?
Davide Ravasini revising? :P
Probs forgot your mathematical physics or engineering problem
Getting nifty ways of explaining things when you have to teach the subject?
U needed a refresher my boy
I have one in Chemistry and I'm asking myself the same question haha
Little mistake at 4:20, it's a sigma, not epsilon
if only he had a cheat sheet...
Yep...
COINCIDENCE?
@@thiefofheartss5677 I can only read that (Greek) thanks to my Grade 11 Physics teacher. :)
Now I'd like to know if the description is for sigma or epsilon... FFS
I am grateful for this. Not being able to do math is a little like not being able to read. I feel shut out of a whole world. You’ve given me a glimpse and it’s exhilarating. I’ve viewed your TEDx vid on quantum physics over and over. At 68 years old, it gives me the feeling that i experienced as a child staring at the sky and thinking about the concept of infinity. How wonderous and mysterious is this reality! Thank you for opening up new doors of perception.
akjlm53 That's so kind, thank you, you made my day.
@Steph Thompson good for you! I'm currently at linear algebra. Hope I'll manage to work my way all the way through calculus
@@majzerofive my advise is to ask God to show you if the Bible is from Him.
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@@jackdorrington5908 don't recommend ok 😡😡
This was excellent! I'm impressed by how much ground you covered so clearly in this vid. Are you going to do more math vids? I would watch that "whole other video" on calculus :)
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I'll be going back to school for a stem focused degree soon- this channel was integral in revealing the possibilities of such a path to me and convincing me to give it serious consideration
I'd just like to thank you for videos like these and all the motivation + education they provide us. Cheers mate!
I don't know why educational facilities don't bother to make visuals as everyday learning material. they like to encrypt things and hope that we unencrypt them and learn it. its an inefficient learning process given to what technology we have today.
Hieroglyphics
But the process of understanding and internalising the so called “encryptions” is the true beauty of maths and science, the visuals can come later to understand the physical meaning of what you are doing during maths, a great example of this is 3blue1brown, because when you are working with maths and science in industry or in academia, the problems aren’t so available in visual format, you have to understand what the problem is asking and try different techniques to figure out, and you would only be able to use these techniques if you made an attempt to understand and internalise them yourself instead of being handed everything on a platter
@@shivam5105 maybe first teach them the basics and them ask them to visualize properly I mean it would make 100x faster the learning process
Please do a map of engineering. I have been asking for so long I have become an engineer since first asking!
lol congrats
Okay so first...
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look it up goddamit
You make one. 😊
A77 fih lol
Oh, how I wish I had this explanation back in the Seventies when I was in Highschool. It would have saved years of anguish. So clear and informative. I can remember the horror of trying to make sense of Letters suddenly appearing in Sums and the pain it caused me. Bloody dreadful teachers back then, probably got off with a power trip of superiority of knowledge over us ordinary kids.
These types of videos are just amazing! The visual animations really adds to your great explanations and makes learning so simple and elegant.
Missed you! Keep up with the great content man
Btw, just entering college to study computer science. I wish to follow the academic path, and you truly inspire me. Thanks!
So, how's ur life after engineering?
Im a ninth grader in highschool right now, and i have looked all over the internet. There was never any channel as helpful as domain of science, you helped me so much, i dont really understand alot of it, but i know i'll get there someday. This chanel explains so well. I just want to say thank you!
Thank you for this! I shared this with my College Physics course (most students are pre-Med and hate math) and it helped tremendously!!!
Great and helpful video! Thank you!
For SCD guys, I realized that SUM is just a for loop. i=100 SUM i=0, i^2 is for(sum= 0, i= 0; i!= 100; i++){ sum+= i^2;}.
All power to you! You're such an intelligent teacher! Thanks for teaching me a different perspective! Very helpful!
3:34 - Displays Greek alphabet
4:20 - Calls the sigma (sum symbol) an epsilon
Man I have been wanting to learn this for years, thank you for your explanations!
Please do more videos like this. I found it incredibly helpful to visualize mathematics.
Consider Philosophy and Logic Symbols next (iff; A ⇒ B ; ∀ n ∈ ℕ: n2 ≥ n. ; etc)
Thanks!
FrozenSpector this is what I need
DBS LLama me too!!!
Philosophy symbols??
@@yash1152 Logic
It's one of the foundations of mathematics, this has minimal use of numbers (altho you can use numbers on it) but this can be used to make mathematical proofs, without this, every mathematical concept will not make sense
@@ethangold4900 hmm, interesting. never heard of it.
oh wait, ok logic (discrete maths and set theory). yeah, got it
I am astonished with the amount of simplicity there is to seeing these concepts embedded within mathematics. I wish all educators would be able to condense information this easily.
That was really helpful for the first four minutes but then I needed you to continue explaining the meaning of each letter/symbol as I practiced trying to decide which were the variables, constants, etc when you came to integrals and derivatives
Few days ago, I finally got it! Math is a foreign language. As a lawyer, I was so proud of myself... Now, after I had decrypted this code, one question was standing : "HOW DO WE READ MATH?". The question seemed so "stupid" to me that it has never crossed my mind that someone, somewhere would take his time to explain and answer to this dumb question🤦🏿♂️! WHAT A VIDEO!?!!!🤩🤩 And, at the end, WHAT A SMART QUESTION!😱😋👌🏿 Thank you for sharing your knowledges👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 From Paris-France🇨🇵🇨🇵
I wish I had studied more mathematics at uni. When I first studied calculus it was a revelation to me. As a biologist, we didn't have to do a lot of at undergrad level however, I opted for a calculus course in my first year. I don't think I was a natural mathematician, but my grades were very respectable. I'm sure I could have studied physics or mechanics- don't know why I didn't- mayhap my love of genetics was too strong. Anyway, on the strength of this vid I have subscribed. Looking forward to other presentations. Flaxen Saxon.
i wish i had content like this when I was younger. It wouldve helped me a lot to better understand math. the way my teachers taught me or the books just made me more confused which was why math was always my weakest subject growing up.
Yeah. They always teach it as seemingly vuagely and unhelpful as possible. They'll just keep repeating what essentially ammounts to "why can't you do it? It's easy! Let me do it for you to show you that!" Without actually bothering you explain WHY or HOW and we're expected to just immediately understand what's going on with no real explanations.
Thank you so much! This video is so informative! I got my memory back and now I’m in track from 0 in math! But with this video ! I got a lot of encourage to learn it all again!
God bless!
I feel this is the most difficult part about learning mathematics. When someone explains it in words, I have no problem. When I have to stare at these hieroglyphics, im lost within moments.
You ignited a fire in me to learn math again. Thank you.
I just love Domain of Science I can't get enough of it ! Love you Dominic ❤
I love calculus you should do a whole video on it
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0:25 - 0:50
In less then 30 seconds, you clarified what 20 years of schooling could not.
Thank you ❤️
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20years of schooling?! wtf is that school 💀
@@canyoupoop 20 years of schooling also couldn't teach him how to count
I really enjoyed this !!! Thanks a lot
Step 4. Make sure you are comfortable with your calculator. I know with mine depending on whether I'm entering degrees, radians, or gradient I can switch between those modes. If I want decimal notation then I set my calculator to approximate and if I don't want decimal notation then I set it to exact. Just make sure that when you enter in the values it conforms to the order of operations.
awesome, yeah, this point often goes missing in formal education as well - i think
Thank you man .. really you don’t know how much this video helps me 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you! I learned alot from this short video
How I wish I could go back 30 years and regard this as my first primer in maths, which was so badly taught then, it put me off for life. Not a single one of the explanations in this video was explained back then - not a single one! Somehow we were assumed to know half of this from primary school, but most of us did not. Thank you for starting me from scratch with so much more clarity than I ever was offered all those years ago.
Thanks a lot for these series. They are really a great accessible but comprehensive introduction to so many subjects. Well done.
This was a FANTASTIC video! Great job!
I love this thank you, you explain as well, and it makes sense to me the way you explained it
Thank you so much for this video!
Correction: The letter at 4:21 is not an Epsilon, but a Sigma.
I have always disliked math and have been a huge history nerd but like the comment by akjLm53 said, I do feel shut out of a whole world. I want to learn all the complicated things of math and explore the rabbit holes but I don't know how to start.
3blue1brown is a great math UA-cam channel that explains math using visualizations that really help to understand the subject. Highly recommend it.
Me too
Absolutely fantastic - precisely what everyone student should have, but never gets, at the commencement of secondary school mathematics.
omg where were you i so needed this 10 years ago .... thanks for this please do more videos like this
English is not even my first language.. yet this is so nicely understandable.. hahah.. it's awesome! Thanks for the work! :)
4:22 Actually it's a Sigma not an Epsilon. But still a good video from u.
I'm pretty sure he knows and he did it on purpose. Video is for utter normies.
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This video taught me a lot of things. I think it’s valuable
that was one of the best video i saw in a while. ty
Wow! After watching this, programming made alot of more sense. Thanks for this amazing simple video👌
Realizing that the *sigma is actually a loop....
You are alive!! :3
Yes! And I'm going to be working on a monthly schedule from now on. The drawing and animation just takes a long time so I've also been toying with the idea of making more talking head videos, but still with high quality explainer content. Is this something people would like to see?
Its nice to see you uploading again! The drawing and animations can be helpful sometimes but I would also enjoy more "talking head" videos, so in my opinion, do what you think you've got time and energy to do. No visual representations will probably require lengthier explanations some times though.
yay, content
Domain of Science
Most successful science UA-camrs make "talking head" content (SciShow, Vsauce, PBS Spacetime, Veritasium...). Videos like this will definitely be popular ;)
Domain of Science You could talk whilst writing/drawing on a sheet of paper in front of you/camera (or use pre-drawn slides to illustrate a point) - similar to Numberphile videos.
This is exactly what i needed!!
thank you for making this really easy to understand it really helps me out
this is an outstanding video that clearly summarises so many fundamental concepts. I will likely be linking people to this for years to come
josh mcgee Is this comment sarcastic, or is something as elementary as being able to read an equation really worthy of 'linking people to this for years to come'? It hardly gets even more basic than that...
before I started university I didn't understand the fundamental principles behind an equation being a relationship between things, or how variables related to the xy plane, etc. A typical high school math class teaches people what to do, not what it means. This video quickly summarises what these very fundamental concepts mean
This video really needs portuguese subtitles, many people I know would benefit from this information.
The videos could be open to translation
Ele é liberado pra legendar, ali em legendas tem a opção de criar legendas!
Maybe you should do the translations for the video, and send it to him.
@@howardbaxter2514 i was thinking the same thing.
Agreed, I would really appreciate a video on calculus. Thank you for all these great videos!
Summation can be used on non-integers, as in the case of summing the numbers in a data set or calculating the variance.
My favorite thing to do is read math equations that are in the background of shows and movies.
I just realized how lame that sounds but I still love it.😁
Hii why u ain't any video on your UA-cam channel
@Lynette Math Nerd
Well first I’ll have to learn how to read. Then I can read maths.
Interesting, considering that you can already write but not read
Razin Shaikh mabye he was trying to make a nihilistic joke...
Continual Improvement jared, 19
Continual Improvement lol
@@RazinShaikh maybe one of his friends or family members wrote this for him
Best video ever i have no words to say thank to you very informative video and your way of teaching is amazing
Thats was a really powerful answered
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as a 13 year old, this is helpful. :*)
Now you are 15, congratulations
Me: We meet again Arch Enemy math..
Math: Buhahaha you thought you could get a computer science degree without me! Foolish mortal!
So true...
Fabulous video, great content, I loved it
thank you sir,your videos make me to be more interested in science and math 💗
Step 4: Cry.
Enjoy*
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@@itech40 Why not both?
0:05 "A=πr" I think you're forgetting something.
What if A/r = π
What he meant was that it should be A=πr²
It is a new equation
It's a rectangle with width π and length r.
Keep moving forward I like people who try to make science easier
You are talented, gifted - thank you.
4:20 this big Greek sigma*
4:27 that "thing" is a sigma not an epsilon lolz
Thanks a lot for such a simple yet intuitive explanation. Nobody thought me like that. Irony is I end up working as a quant now.
As someone looking at going back into mathematics (cal 1/2 linear algebra) as prereqs for uni after twelve years of No Math, I really appreciate these videos. THank you!
Why didn't you mention factorials in this as well? I've always thought that factorials and sum functions were fairly similar, but factorials were always notated more simply.
factorials are when you multiply the numbers, and sum is adding
I find the lack of units very disturbing.
Don't force choke me! Yes me too, but wanted to keep it simple otherwise I would have had to explain them as well...
One of my favorite things about going into math instead of physics was not having to worry about units, other than maybe measuring in degrees sometimes instead of radians.
wow great explanation ,you have a gift of teacher that most profession teacher dont even have. You take something that took me weeks of studying and made me understand it in less than 7 minutes great job man . You got a new sub great work
I NEED TO REWATCH THIS A LOT i can feel math making sense now
The title says Math, the content is only equations.
Funnily those term are not equal to each other.
wantin The greatest problem in dealing with freshmen is trying to explain to them that an equation without any accompanying text is never a complete answer to a math problem. If it is, you probably landed in the physics department.
Good effort , BUT MATHS NEED ALOT PRACTICE STILL
Beautifully done
Beautiful explanation.thanks¡¡¡
I still don't get it 😭😭😭
I’m doing A level maths why am I watching this
Same ffs
excellent. Thank You so much.
Thanks! I’m only 9 years old and already learned the basics! You’ve earned a sub!
4:26 that's a sigma Σ σ
Who clicked this video because it was a recommendation?
Greetings from Brazil! Your channel is amazing! I wish you grow up with more subscribes!
Rules and steps are simplified. Thank You.
5:28 that integral doesn´t converge...
You are correct.
What do you mean??
@@int16_t it doesn't have an answer
@ 4:21 that's a sigma :///////////
Amazing thank you so much !!!!!
That's was a simple, yet surprisingly effective starter on "How to Read Math."
That is impressive, I probably would have touched on Trigonometry (and a few of its applications) rather than calculus in the way you did, I would encourage you to add trig rather than replace calc with trig. For me personally, obtaining a good grasp of Trigonometry was the most difficult and most confusing part of understanding Calculus and and going further.
Trig is one of the simplest* and one of the most important areas of mathematics I've come across after algebra. I do not use calculus as much as I thought I would, with electric motors and the type of robotics I work with and play with, a solid understanding in Trig makes everything else so much easier.
Great, great videos. Your content is ALWAYS extremely high-quality. Please keep doing what you're doing! I'll be sharing this video for educational purposes frequently in the near future.
dy/dx is pronounced " dee y dee x" not "dee y by dee x" or " dy upon dx" . It's a common mistake. It is an operator not a fraction.
You could also say dee y with respect to dx!
dy/dx is not an operator, it's a function, the operator is d/dx
When you're watching this because you suck at math 😭😂
Angela . The more math you practice, the more you realize that math has a pattern and concepts you learn build on top of itself and other concepts
I never thought I was a "math person", but doing math as part of my major I realized that it's a skill like any other (pitching a baseball accurately, for example). With time you'll become better at it, trust me. It just requires reps the same as any skill.
Angela . you must be awful at math
sole21000 It is like learning Rubik’s cube algorithms, after doing it for 6 months, I can now solve a cube in under 30 seconds (my best time ever is 18.72
thank you so much teacher i relly learn many thing from this channel good luck
Awesome Vids Bro, Keep up the good works.
Although I usually appreciate your videos very much, I have to say that this particular one was unusually superficial and contained very little actual information. The topics that were tackled were on the one hand extremely elementary (know what the symbols in an equation represent and keep the order of operations in mind), but on the other hand the actual mathematical concepts that are applied were not tackled at all (What is an operation/a function? What does it mean to 'solve' an equation?). Even if I were not able to properly read basic equations, I strongly assume that this video would leave me non the wiser. Also, the narration sounded pretty disinterested and it was not very focused (see 'cheat sheet' and 'calculus' parts). Maybe I just wasn't part of the demographic this time. Nevertheless, I hope that this criticism was constructive and useful. Keep up the good work!
i didn't understand anything he said is like he speak another language that i don't know does anybody feel the same or is just me?!!!
Somewhat. It is easy as Pi. So only the bits you use regularly are familiar to you and the rest confusing.
i feel the same. i must be missing the math gene. seriously. siiiggghhhh…. on the other hand, i can tell the color teal from turquoise…
Very good! This cleared things up for me a lot.
This is a good job. Congratulation and thanks.
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I hoped this video will be more about uncommon stuff or advanced solving strategies. But you explained basic third grade math equations.
That's what the channel is about and it is also his comfort zone, writing / having written educational books for children (IIRC).
I got to 9th grade and I've never in my life seen any of this... Like, none of it. I had no clue what he was talking about past Y=X means Y and X is the same number, lol.
What kind of school did you and 14 other people go to, sheesh.
Right? I learned this stuff in grade 10 - 12 (I think, it's been a while). If this is grade 3 stuff, what is grade 12 like for them? :P
you guys need to live in amercia
Thank you so much!
What an amazing video!!!
This is an amazing overview of mathematics. I would liked to see more! ☺
Thank you!