Cheesy Math Videos

Students pretend to hate them, but in all honesty, they love the cheese. Here are a few videos that may help you make math class include a few more laughs each day:

Slope Dude has now become a staple in our math class lexicon. We definitely now refer to a positive slope solely as “Puff Puff Positive.”

For all you Macklemore fans out there, you will love this. I couldn’t help but groove a little as we were learning how to graph using slope-intercept form.

STILL reviewing Order of Operations in Grade 9? Look no further. Here is a video that connects dragons to math. Can I get a “woowee”? I think so.

If you want to get your dance shoes on again, watch this video that teaches the Number Line.

Will Smith and Trig? Yes, indeed! Help your students understand SOH-CAH-TOA with this video.

Create Your Own Math RSA Animate Style Video

One of the best ways I get ideas is from other teachers, and they are not always teachers that I have met face-to-face. Recently, I came across one of those great teaching ideas by Paul Bogush, a teacher-blogger from Conneticut and from http://blogush.edublogs.org/ . He created RSA Animate Style Videos with his History class. I was brainstorming ways in which I could integrate media technology into my math class, and “Eureka!” Thank-you Paul, whom I have never met.

I teach a class of 10 students. It is a small class in a small school. Each student in my class has been placed in this class because of a particular label – learning disability. That is a whole other discussion. Learning disabled or not learning disabled, I wanted to integrate media technology in math class because I do it regularly in my other subjects and it works great. So, I followed Paul’s advice and we created RSA Animate Style Videos to review for our math exam. We have also embraced cheesy math videos (click on the link for some examples of the cheese) as a necessary learning tool in class, so this gave my students the opportunity to make their own.

Below are the instructions and rubric I used. I also created my own RSA Animate Style Video to give my students the instructions. Talk about a hook! They thought I was hilarious. I would love to include their final product, but I may have a few angry anti-media parents come yelling at me. Paul has his own student examples on his website.

RSA Assignment Package (Word Document)

RSA Assignment Rubric (Word Document)