Here are my two favorite podcasts:
The Mathgrad Podcast
The One Minute How To
I found these in Podcast Alley, the podcast directory with which I had the most success. I have recommended both to my classes and friends as they are both applicable of my curriculum and interesting enough to be worth a listen for anyone. This directory was the easiest for me to search and seemed to have more interesting topics to me.
The first, "Mathgrad"discusses famous math topics in everyday language. I like the way it models explaining difficult abstract concepts in terms anyone can understand
"The One Minute How To",follows up on the idea of explaining complex processes in a orderly concise manner. The gimmick of the podcast is that experts explain something in only one minute. This forces them to be very economical with words in much the same dense, terse manner of the mathematical proofs we do in class. Many of these are quite fascinating. It is surprising ow much one can explain in a minute.
I have subscribed to both of these and plan to listen to them in class regularly. I have already discussed my idea that I am kicking around about creating a podcast in which students pick an ACT problem and explain it in one minute or less. I have so much to do right now. I am not sure when I will implement this though. APSU keeps me swamped!
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