YouTube: Math

YouTube is a great tool to use to help present the information you are teaching to your students in a new and interactive way. This tool also allows students to access different materials to help them grasp a better understanding on certain subjects when struggling. I use YouTube to learn new things all the time whether it is school related or not. Learning how to use YouTube and using it in the classroom will definitely help our students in future years. Below are a few examples of educational videos I found on YouTube and plan on using in my classroom to help teach my students about math. The first three videos I have below are used to teach addition and subtraction to a classroom full of first graders. The Climbing video is a song to help first graders count by 10s. This video will be used to help students understand two digit numbers and how they refer to ones. This last video I have shown here is a video that one of my service learning teachers used in her class while teaching math. When learning a new mathematical standard or when given a "harder" math problem the teacher would say "Who is ready to be thrown in the pit?" The students got excited and she showed them this little clip from Emperor's New Groove. After the clip was shown the class talked about problem solving and working together to find a solution. So the students were given a problem and were instructed to work  together to "get out of the pit" or in other words to solve the problem. I loved how she used this video to teach students how to work together to solve math problems. The students go excited about math and it gave them confidence in the ability to solve "harder" math problems.

Mathematics Standard 1: Mathematics grade 1 Standard 1.0A.1

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve world problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions. For Example, use objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Mathematics Standard 1: Mathematics grade 1 Standard 1.NBT.2
Understand that the  two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases:
a. 10 can be thought of as a bundle of tens ones, called a "ten"
b. The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
c. The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 ,80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).

ISTE: Creative Communicator
I communicate effectively and express myself creatively using different tools, styles, formats, and digital media.

Educational Technology Standard 8:
Use technology resources (e.g., calculators, data collection probes, videos, educational software) for problem-solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities. (5,6)