Top 3 YouTubers for Mastering Math Concepts

Summary List of the article

• YouTube is a good resource for learning

• Watch Professor Leonard, NancyPi, and The Math Sorcerer Videos 

• Math is a beautiful concept and is important to understand

• If you're struggling with math it just takes time to get better and you can learn high-level math. 

Top 3 YouTubers for Mastering Math Concepts

Math can be hard to learn. But essential to know to make it through high school and college. It doesn't have to be that hard. Learning advanced math will only take some time and good note-taking. If you're struggling with math you have not had it explained to you correctly for you to understand. These top three YouTubers will provide you with great explanations of many mathematical concepts for you to ace your next exam. 

To start YouTube used to get overlooked as an educational platform however, over recent years it has taken off. The platform is limitless on what you can learn on it. Now with people posting math videos on the platform, it is easier than ever to learn high-level math. The content ranges from super long overarching videos on how to apply and solve certain topics to short videos on a few problems on a topic. It all depends on what you want and how much you know already. This is kind of the problem with YouTube. The videos are not sorted and organized by any means. It may take you longer to find a good-quality video on the topics you are looking for than to learn the topic. Not all content creators put in as much work as possible to cater to your learning. Fortunately for you, I will lay out the top YouTubers to subscribe to. To learn mathematics as efficiently and seamlessly as possible. 

Professor Leonard 

If you are struggling or are looking to fully understand what you are learning in your math class the only correct answer is to watch Professor Leonard. Professor Leonard makes videos on YouTube to help supplement his class. However, these videos are free to watch and are without a doubt the best explanations of every mathematical concept from basic Arithmetic to Differential Equations. Professor Leonard has an undergraduate degree from MIT and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. The only caveat is his videos are long since he goes into such detail. In my opinion, this is not a downside for his videos. Since he will cover many of the questions you will have about the topic you are learning. Along with many of the exceptions in the topic that you don’t pick up right away. Also, being that it is a YouTube video and you truly understand the material you can jump around in his videos just don't lie to yourself about what you do and don't know. 

I truly can't say enough how helpful his videos are. His videos are the reason I was able to turn my grade around in Calculus One from 58% on my first exam to get a B as my final grade in the class. He fills all the holes in your mathematical understanding but you have to put in the time. You can go from not knowing enough Algebra while you're taking Calculus One and failing because of it, to learning both Algebra and Calculus at the same time. Another thing I would do with his videos is get a separate notebook just for his lectures and a set of colored pens. Just follow along and write everything he writes down. Make sure you are fully engaged as well when watching the videos. You will succeed in your math journey no matter how bad you think you are at math. I promise you a couple of months later you will be smiling at what you accomplished if you stick to his videos.

The only true downside to his videos is once you get to Differential Equations your course may fall off from what he covers in his Differential Equations class. The other downside is running out of his videos to watch once you complete your math courses. This is very ironic. How could something you hated turn into something you love to do? 

Lastly, Professor Leonard helps you understand that you can learn anything you're trying to learn. He helps change your mindset towards classes which you wouldn't even consider being on the table when you start watching his videos out of desperation. He also makes you wish that all your professors were like him. In short, enjoy your time learning from him because these are some of my fondest and oddly most difficult memories from college that he was able to guide me through and I can't thank him enough for them. 

NancyPi

Nancypi is another great YouTube channel for learning math. She has some shorter videos compared to Professor Leonard and are better if you already know 50% or more of the topic to fully cement the idea down. Her videos end up being shorter and she doesn't have as many topics as Professor Leonard but her video quality is better and she explains the topics just as well as he does. Additionally, she stops at Calculus and doesn't have any videos on Differential Equations, unfortunately. 

However, if you like color-coded notes, she does an excellent job at keeping to a theme with the notes. You may want purple and pink pens if you truly want to follow along. It also almost feels like a crime to take notes in a notebook given how much work she puts into her videos and how well they are organized. It is a lot easier to switch your pen color on your tablet anyway. I will say she sometimes explains things differently than Professor Leonard and it helped my understanding of the content. So it made me better on exams when the professors tried to put things in the exams as more difficult or abstract concepts that they briefly covered. 

Additionally, her videos are good to review for exams instead of Professor Leonard's since you don't have the time to watch his videos again. She does have a video on remembering the Unit Circle which can make or break you while learning trigonometry. Her tips are good as well and are a good backup if you didn't understand the topic from Professor Leonard or need more worked-out practice problems to study from. Again it's hard to find a better teacher than NancyPi. 

The Math Sorcerer

The Math Sorcerer is a great resource he has everything related to math. There is a big sense of passion for math. Which is not only for the math itself but for teaching the math to people. I would say he has a bigger catalog than Professor Lenoard but it's also not as organized as NancyPi’s channel. The reason I found his channel is when Professor Leonard's content on Differential Equations started to change from my class and I was having a hard time learning La Place Transforms. The Math Sorcerer was the only one on YouTube I could find with excellent videos on the topic. I did end up getting very good grades in the rest of my Differential Equations class because of him. 

The way I would take notes from his videos is just a plain and simple notebook and pen. You don’t need to be fancy and thats kind of the vibe you get from the videos. Learn the math for what it is and understand what the math means. Embrace the pure form of mathematical concepts. Be curious about what you are learning simply by the complexity of mathematics itself and the vast unknown it opens up as you go deeper into your understanding of mathematics. This seems like his overall message or just the message I have found when learning mathematics from him. This is what I miss about my math classes and why math is so special. Math is elegant because it provides concrete truth in a world that is often full of gray areas and no hardlines. Which for some reason provides some comfort to the world. It is hard to explain why. Math helps you understand that the only limitation is you and your approach to a problem which in some way shows us that there is something else that we have yet to uncover no matter where you are in life. I hope you find this when you go through your courses and it helps you be a better person.  

Moving onto expanding The Math Sorcerer’s catalog of math videos. I think you would have a hard time finding something that is not on his channel regarding math. He covers Logarithms in depth which is barely covered in any math classes. Odds are you probably forgot about them until you had to take the derivatives of them in Calculus. He also caters to vastly different skill levels like Professor Leonard. It is pretty hard to say anything bad about his channel other than the fact that he has so much content it might take a little time to find the video you are looking for. Additionally, you can find some information on helpful math textbooks from him if you want to go further in learning math. Overall he truly has a passion for math that is very rare to see anyone have with any topic let alone math. His videos would also be a good resource to follow even after high school and college to continue learning math. 

Conclusion

I hope you have found these YouTubers helpful in learning math. I also hope you find a passion for mathematics and how interesting it is to learn. It is by far the coolest concept you learn through school in my opinion. I wish teachers gave you a glimpse of where math leads you instead of giving you math for math's sake. I hope these YouTubers do this for you and are some of the best teachers you have ever had like they were for me. I often recall the time when I was taking Calculus Two. It was a cold Saturday in January and watching Professor Leonard's videos to make it through one of the toughest courses in college. It is weird how much that time sucked but how much I grew from it. I wouldn’t have changed a thing from that time. Because of how much I learned about myself and mathematics. 

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