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Youtube is slowly but surely encroaching on all areas of web video. The web video giant is already pondering about jumping into live streaming, but till that is settled Youtube has decided to venture into the How-To video market space. Students are increasingly turning to Youtube to watch instructional videos, according to Associated Press:

Nissim typically scours the video-sharing Web site for clips of bands and comedy skits. But this time she wasn’t there to procrastinate on her homework. It turned out YouTube was also full of math videos. After watching a couple, the psychology major says, she finally understood trig equations and how to make graphs.

"I was able to watch them at my own pace and if I didn’t get a concept, I could easily rewind it," Nissim says. "It was a lot clearer once I watched the video."

Math videos won’t rival the millions of hits garnered by laughing babies, but a YouTube tutorial on calculus integrals has been watched almost 50,000 times in the past year. Others on angular velocity and harmonic motion have gotten more than 10,000 views each.