-Margaret L. Niess
Ever thought about using digital videos to teach your students math? I haven't. Niess explains that digital videos can give your students challenging math questions for you students, and the National Council of Teaching Mathematics adds, "That visualization is an important tool in problem solving." Niess thinks that by showing new concepts to the students through videos or presentations that the students will grasp the new concept at an higher level of understanding. Video's are more engaging that lectures and grasps the students' attention from the beginning. She goes on to give the example of Abbott and Costello's 28 donut example, where they try to divide 28 donuts among 7 people. Where could we find that video though? YouTube. These video's can help to explain concepts for students who are visual, auditory, or even kinesthetic learners by covering all areas of learning, it works for all.
I think this is a wonderful way to teach kids math, especially for someone like me who has no interest in math. Math is not my favorite subject, partially because it's hard to grasp which makes it boring for me. Bringing in funny and entertaining videos about the different concepts would engage the students in the new concept, and getting them to want to learn something new. These days YouTube has all the videos we could ever want at our fingertips. Another way I could bring this video concept is to break students into groups, and give each group a different math concept to explain to the class. They would explain this concept to the class through making a video that contains the concept. Not only do they then have to explain the concept while making sure they full understand it, they're making it more understandable for the rest of their classmates.
Your class video assignment seems like a great idea. Getting kids to know why they are doing things instead of just how is something I hear math teachers talking about all the time, and entertaining videos seems like a good way to help teach the why part because I don't think most students actually care about the why part.
ReplyDeleteI love it when a video is incorporated into class time. I believe visuals keep the students interested. I haven't experienced yet a math lecture with video assignments, but I would definitely like to see how that would work out. Good point on how this technique would cover all areas of learning. (:
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