{"id":14846,"date":"2012-11-12T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=14846"},"modified":"2012-11-12T15:42:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T20:42:30","slug":"a-florida-math-teachers-youtube-lessons-reach-people-in-100-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/12\/a-florida-math-teachers-youtube-lessons-reach-people-in-100-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"A Florida Math Teacher&#8217;s YouTube Lessons Reach People in 100 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?index=7&#038;list=PL4FB17E5C77DCCE69\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About half a million people from around the world have been tuning in online to the math lessons of a Florida teacher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/breakingnews\/sfl-you-tube-math-viral-20121112,0,6803110.story?track=rss\">according to the Sun Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Tarrou, a teacher at\u00a0St. Petersburg High School, records\u00a0lessons on algebra, trigonometry, calculus, statistics and other math subjects under his YouTube channel &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/profrobbob\">Tarrou&#8217;s\u00a0Chalk Talk<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some videos have more than 33,000 hits so far.<\/p>\n<p>In this video where the high school teacher is rocking a shirt that reads,\u00a0&#8220;5 out of 4 people have a problem with fractions,&#8221;\u00a0Tarrou gives an introduction to equations of parallel or perpendicular lines.<\/p>\n<p>Below are comments from his grateful viewers.<\/p>\n<p>strfiretiger123\u00a0wrore:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh gosh, thank you so much! You&#8217;re a seriously amazing teacher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MSswishaha\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=CJKU5KGHyrMCFcwnQAod6BSkPg%3D%3D\"><!--more--><\/a>MSswishaha wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wow&#8230;.. I was in tears about 30 minutes ago&#8230;. THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY MAKE UP!!! THIS HELPED SOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of our favorite comments on the YouTube channel comes from\u00a0juiceitwell, after he or she thanks Tarrou for all his support:<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote><p>Also, I must say you are really great at erasing things off the board in one clean swipe, I think that is commendable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We agree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half a million people from around the world have been tuning in online to the math lessons of a Florida teacher, according to the Sun Sentinel. Rob Tarrou, a teacher at\u00a0St. Petersburg High School, records\u00a0lessons on algebra, trigonometry, calculus, statistics and other math subjects under his YouTube channel &#8220;Tarrou&#8217;s\u00a0Chalk Talk.&#8221; Some videos have more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1169,1061],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14861,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions\/14861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}