Mr. Robb's Math is a YouTube channel containing 555 videos produced by high school mathematics teacher Bradley Robb. Mr. Robb's videos explain and demonstrate solving problems in Algebra I, Algebra II, and Calculus. Most of the videos are recorded while Mr. Robb is teaching. You can find the videos on the Mr. Robb's Math YouTube channel or visit Mr. Robb's website WowMath to find the videos organized in sequence with accompanying screenshots.
The Algebra Tiles would be a nice tool to have students explore the distributive property. I like the way it is set up because it leads to students begin thinking about how things are factored, which can be hard for students to understand
Solve simple linear equations using a balance beam representation.
I like both of the balance scales. I really like how they have one that involves negatives while the other does not. Students have a hard time understanding how negative numbers fit into solving equations and I think this could help them. I might use this is the launch for a discussion amoung the students
Despite the fact that this project engaged students on many levels and taught them story structure, characterization, use of dialogue, and exposition, it was jettisoned last year because of the national shift to the Common Core. It was replaced with an eight-page (for sixth graders!) research project.
What is not a waste is ensuring that students comprehend and can use automatically the basics of math so that when their brains are ready for algebra, geometry and calculus, the ability to understand is implanted and ready to go.
Judi Buenaflor; Allentown, Pa
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This is a lab activity that I can use in my course to introduce students to linear functions. At this time, I am contemplating whether to use it as an in-class activity or having it that the place of a video for a lecture and become a lesson that is discovery for students to use on their own.
This is the concern for using it as an online lesson. This requires the use of Java and it could be an app that students do not have on their computer at home as I had complications with it at first.
(You may also want to try doing the
same
thing with your graphing calculator if you have one, or with any other
computer algebra system that you might have available on your
computer.)
assign specific group roles to each student which they carry out in an effort to
solve a lengthy, multi-step problem that requires creative thinking, and which
may be solvable by various methods, such as algebraic, geometric, or even the
results of experimental