Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing is also another podcast's that is similar to the Math Dude, but it gives helpful tips for writing. One podcast I was able to listen to was one about the difference between first, second, and third person. It gave good examples of what first person, second person, and third person is. It defines what possessiveness is, and the different uses of it is. This was a great episode because it tells you when its appropriate to use each tense, showing how knowledge of these tenses is applicable and useful in real life. Another episode I listened to was about how to write a better complaint letter. It gave examples of how you should not address someone in a complaint letter and stresses how manners are very important. It explains how being polite but getting your point across will most likely get you what you are looking to achieve from writing the complaint letter. Each episode is great and relate able to the real world. It shows how having these basic skills and having basic knowledge of grammar can benefit you in your real life.

The Math Dude: Quick and Dirty Tips to Make Math Easier

One of the podcast's I chose to follow was The Math Dude: Quick and Dirty Tips to Math Easier. One of the episodes I listened to taught its listeners how to raise an exponent to a power. It went over the most important facts about exponents. Such as defining exponents and the general properties of exponents. Such as adding and multiplying the exponents. I also listened to a podcast about altering your holiday recipes. The podcast's talked about how you can double or cut your holiday recipes in half. It talked about how we can alter fractions within recipes. This was interesting because it showed students how fractions and math is applicable in their real lives. I also listened to an episode about how to multiply and divide negative numbers. The podcast was very informative and lays out in a simple way, how to multiply a positive number and a negative number. The Math Dude is a helpful podcast that provides simple and easy tips to remember while doing math.