Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Quick Videos to aid instruction

MathCuts is a great resource for teachers! These videos model for us how to use visual resources to help students better understand math concepts. It is shared with us through the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Here is a good one about partitioning for 1st and 2nd grade:






This one helps teachers to introduce the distributive property for 3rd grade:




This video shows how to use visual models to divide decimals.  Students are not expected to master a traditional division algorithm in 5th grade.  This video shows you how to spend time making sense of what is happening:

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