Videos

1. Order of operations Math Rap by Mr. Tomai's class 
This video is a "music video" made by a fifth grade class over the topic of Order of Operations. This video would be an excellent resource for teachers to use in the classroom because it is a fun way for students to learn the order of operations; children love music and having fun songs help them learn and memorize information. This video is short enough that the teacher could play it multiple times without wasting too much class time. Also students could interact with the video by performing the movements the students in the video used. This approach would meet all different kinds of learners (visual, auditory, kinestetic,etc.) Also, this video could be used as an example for how to have students make their own music videos. Having students make their own music videos would have them practice the content and would be a good formative assessment because a teacher could clearly see who understands the topic and who doesn't by how they explain it.


2. Teaching Elementary Students the Magic of Math

In this video it discusses how to incorporate math into all subject area and the benefits of doing so. The video discusses how incorporating math in all subject areas teaching children how to think conceptually and how to apply the concepts to multiple situations; this thinking allows students to truly analyze new concepts and practice it in many real life instances. This video also discusses how the more instance students have to practice math the more opportunities they have to practice talking about it, and communication skills.This video would be useful for informing teachers of best practices used when teaching their students. This could also be shown to other professionals that interact with the students, and help them practice incorporating math content into their activities as well.The more opportunities a child knowingly practices math the better prepared they will be. Teachers can also increase student confidence in math which will help them take more and bigger risks in learning. The more confident they feel the more involved in the lesson they will be, which can increase the amount of learning they will participate in.