I've been tutoring Math privately for over 10 years, and I've been wanting to create free videos for students who may not have access to a private tutor. Now, I can do that with this channel with the goal of helping any and all students conquer Math and gain confidence, all for free! I focus on High School Math up to and including AP Calculus BC. If you have any topics you'd like for me to make a video about, send me an email at justin@toptiermath.com. ✌
Absolutely! I teach the longer way initially because it also helps you practice solving systems of linear equations, which you’ll need in a typical Algebra 1 course and is taught before this topic. Once a student has that down, I’ll show them that trick as it’s definitely a time saver! I like to jokingly tell students “Remember this technique when you get to calculus and you’ll see why it works!” 😄
@TopTierMath I get it. I had to learn algebra, geometry, and trigonometry because I wanted to be an engineer when I was in HS and college. Now, my daughter wants to be an artist and has zero interest in math. So, to get her through HS, I have "cheat sheets" and short cuts for her to memorize so she can pass it and get through it and graduate HS! Know what I mean?
@@paules0099 I initially majored in engineering, very cool! And yes, I definitely know what you mean. If you haven’t already, I would definitely recommend peppering in some SAT/ACT (whichever she will take) math questions so she gets the chance to think outside the standard “here’s your formula -> plug and chug” (more or less) and get exposed to the types of questions those exams ask. Theres a lot of free/paid SAT/ACT prep questions with whatever difficulty you’d like to work on so I would always recommend my students to practice them.
@@justinm412 If you only knew my daughter, LoL. She is easily confused by numbers! Especially irrational numbers and radicals! Math was a serious issue since 1st grade! She passes math by short cuts. She has zero interest when it comes to numbers. And, quite frankly, when I worked in engineering, all that math I learned, went out the window went solving real world challenges I faced in the work force, know what I mean?
Absolutely! My students generally don’t see that from their teachers, but as they get experience I like to show them that trick. Definitely a time saver!
i wish u were my teacher. this is my second year coming back to ur videos as i advance into higher maths. the way u explain everything is very easy to understand thank you so much
Absolutely, very nice! I wanted to show the midline of a trapezoid theorem(s) for this example as it's not a widely covered topic but randomly pops up on exams, but we can definitely use SAS similarity!
Thank you, that’s very kind of you! Honestly, I’m surprised they’ve reached this many views, but I’m happy it’s been helping so many people. That’s always the goal 🙌🏼
Hey Dyllian! I'm so sorry for the uber late response, but in case you were still wondering here's why: Linear just means a constant rate of change. So when we're dealing with coordinates like these problems, the following must be true if it's linear: Pick any two coordinates aka (x,y) points and find the change in y divided by change in x (that's where y2-y1/x2-x1 comes from). You'll get some fraction. You should get that same exact fraction (you may need to simplify) for ANY two coordinates that you pick and do the same to (change in y divided by change in x). If you get a different value for even one pair (again, remember to simplify the fraction if needed), then that set of coordinate points does not represent a linear function. Because we got the same fraction for all pairs of coordinates on problem 2, that represents a linear function. Let me know if that helps!
i got a 5, with a raw score of 50 and scaled score of 549!! thanks for the video i was watching this and a couple others online both mornings of the test lol
@@TopTierMath tyy, I just took my test but I don’t think I did very well sadly cuz I didn’t even understand most of the written part so I couldn’t finish it sad 😢 Edit: got a 67 with the curve 🤗😖 I mean I’m not entirely disappointed cuz I passed but I wish I could’ve done much better if only I’d practiced more. It’s ok tho :)
